Graduate Fellows as Research Assistants

Community Partnership Graduate Fellows are available to work with Emory faculty and staff and/or community groups, organizations and agencies on short-term or pilot research projects. Our emphasis is on providing assistance to research projects that provide some tangible direct benefit to the community, particularly those that aid in increasing the capacity of the community to address critical community problems or assist in mobilizing funding agencies to support new and innovative approaches that meet important community needs.

We are especially interested in projects where Emory faculty, staff, and students work jointly with community groups, organizations, and agencies in identifying the research question, designing the research protocol, conducting the research, and disseminating and utilizing the research findings.

OUCP-supported projects involving Community Partnership Graduate Fellows generally fall into one of three categories:

1. Technical assistance and capacity building to assist community-based groups, organizations, and agencies;
2. Critical analyses, needs assessments, and strategic planning to help local groups design more effective programs and policies to address critical community needs; and
3. Program monitoring, implementation assessment, and impact evaluation of existing interventions to aid in finetuning programs so they may more effectively meet critical community needs.