The National Poverty Fellows Program is a federal government-university partnership that seeks to build the capacity of researchers to conduct high-quality policy-relevant research on poverty and inequality in the United States and to contribute to …
National Poverty Fellows Program Position Description for 2022–2023
The National Poverty Fellows in residence at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in Washington, D.C., will work in the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) and will be assigned to the Division …
Visiting Scholars Program Spring 2022 Call for Applications – Deadline Extended to 1/9/2022, 11:59 PM
Application Deadline Extended to January 9, 2022, 11:59 p.m. View/download PDF version of the Call View the Visiting Scholars Program Overview Webinar Terms Eligibility Applicants must be Ph.D.-holding, U.S.-based poverty scholars at any career levels who …
IRP Names Five Researchers as Emerging Poverty Scholar Fellows
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty announced the winners of a re-grant program funded by The JPB Foundation aimed at expanding antipoverty research capacity. Through the Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowships, IRP is …
UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Named National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility
CONTACT: Judith Siers-Poisson, Communications Director, sierspoisson@wisc.edu; 608-262-7779 MADISON—The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the nation’s longest-standing center for poverty research, has been awarded a five-year, $10.6 million cooperative agreement to …
2021 Fall IRP Seminar Calendar
IRP Seminars will resume in person meetings this semester, unless otherwise noted. Connection information for virtual seminars will be sent out, in advance, to the IRP Seminar email list. Sign up for IRP seminar email …
2021–2022 Graduate Research Fellows Program Call for Applications – Due 8/27/2021
Application Deadline: August 27, 2021 View/download PDF version of the call About Program The IRP Graduate Research Fellows (GRF) Program is conducted for Ph.D. students in the social sciences at UW–Madison who have an interest in …
Links between Involved Fathers and Positive Effects on Children
Feature Revised June 2021 | No. 5-2020 More than 72 million men in the United States have at least one biological child. That’s 60 percent of all men in the country. Some are married or …
IRP Statement of Commitment to Racial and Social Justice
The past year has been one of reckoning for the United States. While not new, the outrage over the murder of black citizens has made the systemic institutional violence and oppression people of color experience …
2021–2023 Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship Call for Applications: Deadline 8/15/2021 (11:59 PM CT)
Application Deadline: August 15, 2021 (11:59 p.m. Central Time) View/download PDF version of the call About the Fellowship The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications from junior scholars from …