Community-Based Research Summer Fellowship
Program Information
Program Information
DESCRIPTION
The CCSRE Community-Based Research (CBR) Fellowship is an initiative of the Center sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. The internship program aims to facilitate the integration of undergraduate students into innovative research experiences that delve expressly into community issues. Enhancing this experience through faculty mentorship, students will be supported to develop a research internship that is community-based, community supported, and that includes an analysis that engages issues of race and ethnicity.
The selection of the summer interns will be based on the degree to which the proposed internship will:
Priorities for funding are students:
SELECTION OF INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS AND FACULTY MENTORS
Students are expected to work at their internship placements for a minimum of 8 weeks during the summer. By the end of Spring quarter, all students will need to secure a memorandum of understanding that outlines the internship agreements.
Based on methodology or subject/issue, students will also need to secure a faculty mentor for their internship. If you are proposing a research internship that requires IRB approval, please make sure your faculty mentor is approved by the university to sponsor human subjects research. A letter of recommendation from a faculty member should accompany the application and speak to the student’s leadership skills, commitment to community-based work, the student’s readiness to pursue independent research, and/or strength of the proposed research.
When applying, students may either apply for:
1) Student-Initiated Project. Propose an internship in collaboration with a different community partner, in consultation with the Director of Community Engaged Learning. The internship sites must be with an approved agency or organization committed to public service, public policy, and/or community development. Students are expected to identify at least one person from this organization who will serve as a mentor/supervisor (from the community side) for this research project.
2) Community-Initiated Project. The placements and basic research problems will be developed by key community partners in collaboration with Director of Community Engaged Learning. This will help to ensure that the research is community-driven and useful to the community. Community-Initiated Projects for 2018 include:
LGBT and Queer Youth Support
LGBT/Queer Advocacy
Education Pipeline
Sexual Health Education
Electoral Advocacy
Food And Health Education
Youth and Law
PREPARATION AND FINALIZED INTERNSHIP PROPOSAL
All CRSI participants are required to take CSRE 146: Community Matters – Research and Service with Community Organizations before the summer internship begins. The course will focus on developing the student's community research internship. Topics include: framing research questions, community-based methodologies, mentorship/supervision strategies (communicating what you want/need as an intern), ethical service and research, and giving back (developing strategies for your research that benefits the community).
Once a student has been selected for the summer internship experience, s/he will work in coordination with CCSRE’s Director of Community-Engaged Learning and the faculty mentor to finalize the research proposal and community placement.
IRB
Students whose projects meet the formal definition of research as defined by Stanford University are required to complete the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process of their academic school in order to proceed with their research. If you believe your research will need to go through Human Subjects Review, please make sure that you have met with your faculty mentor and that s/he is approved by the university to sponsor research. Students should carefully monitor university guidelines and timelines regarding IRB review in order to insure their proposal is approved prior to the start of the research project. You should seek support on IRB application from your faculty mentor.
INTERNSHIP ASSIGNMENTS, EVALUATIONS, AND ACADEMIC CREDIT
Fellows will complete several assignments in Summer 2018. These assignments include:
SUMMER STIPEND & BUDGET
CCSRE summer internship recipients will receive up to $7000 during the course of their internship, depending on financial need and proposed living expenses. Students will spend no less than 300 hours working to complete the internship and most internships should be designed as 8-10 week experiences. These funds are issued as a stipend and should be used to support any expenses associated with the internship. An estimated budget that outlines personal expenses (e.g., travel, health related expenses like insurance or vaccinations, housing, per diem or food) and project expenses (e.g., supplies, services like translation or transcription, honoraria or compensation for research participants, etc.) should be included with the application to explain how the stipend will be used.
Applications due: March 7th, 2018
If you are interested, please send an email to Rigoberto Marquez at rmarquez@stanford.edu for more information.
The CCSRE Community-Based Research (CBR) Fellowship is an initiative of the Center sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. The internship program aims to facilitate the integration of undergraduate students into innovative research experiences that delve expressly into community issues. Enhancing this experience through faculty mentorship, students will be supported to develop a research internship that is community-based, community supported, and that includes an analysis that engages issues of race and ethnicity.
The selection of the summer interns will be based on the degree to which the proposed internship will:
- Expand and augment the student’s major course of study.
- Integrate the student in a substantive and meaningful way into the work of a community organization committed to public service, public policy, and/or community development.
- Provide valuable experience for career considerations and/or advanced study or projects such as an honors thesis.
- Benefit the community served.
Priorities for funding are students:
- Majoring in an undergraduate program affiliated with CCSRE (i.e., African and African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Comparative Studies, and/or Native American Studies).
- Whose proposed community research includes an analysis of race and ethnicity as a central theme.
- Are continuing an existing personal or institutional relationship with a community partner.
SELECTION OF INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS AND FACULTY MENTORS
Students are expected to work at their internship placements for a minimum of 8 weeks during the summer. By the end of Spring quarter, all students will need to secure a memorandum of understanding that outlines the internship agreements.
Based on methodology or subject/issue, students will also need to secure a faculty mentor for their internship. If you are proposing a research internship that requires IRB approval, please make sure your faculty mentor is approved by the university to sponsor human subjects research. A letter of recommendation from a faculty member should accompany the application and speak to the student’s leadership skills, commitment to community-based work, the student’s readiness to pursue independent research, and/or strength of the proposed research.
When applying, students may either apply for:
1) Student-Initiated Project. Propose an internship in collaboration with a different community partner, in consultation with the Director of Community Engaged Learning. The internship sites must be with an approved agency or organization committed to public service, public policy, and/or community development. Students are expected to identify at least one person from this organization who will serve as a mentor/supervisor (from the community side) for this research project.
2) Community-Initiated Project. The placements and basic research problems will be developed by key community partners in collaboration with Director of Community Engaged Learning. This will help to ensure that the research is community-driven and useful to the community. Community-Initiated Projects for 2018 include:
LGBT and Queer Youth Support
- Community Partner: Somos Familia East Bay (Oakland, CA)
- http://www.somosfamiliabay.org
- Description: Somos Familia was founded by two moms from the East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area) with Latino gay and bisexual sons in 2007 to reach out to other families. With an all-volunteer group of different generations we established the following mission and vision.Our mission is to create support and acceptance for Latina/o/x lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning youth and their families. We are looking for someone who can help us think about a the schooling experiences of LGBT and Queer Latina/o(x) youth in the bay area. What types of resources exist for families of LGBT and Queer youth in predominantly Latina/o(x) communities. You will work with Director to assess the current landscape of support services that exist for LGBT and Queer Latina/o(x) youth and their families while developing tool kits that can be distributed to different groups and organizations.
LGBT/Queer Advocacy
- Community Partner: API Equality (San Francisco, CA)
- Description: Leadership development is an integral part of API Equality's work. We understand that our organization and larger social justice movements need to proactively invest in young and emerging leaders who are committed to queer and trans liberation and racial justice. Currently, our Leadership Development takes form in our Summer Internship, and in our API Queer Justice Leadership Exchange. Every year, API Equality embarks on an intensive summer internship program to develop the next generation of LGBTQ API social justice and cultural change leaders. Interns receive in-depth trainings on a variety of topics, and employ dynamic approaches for intersectional and multi-issue based organizing. Each intern contributes to the LGBTQ API community by impacting the organization’s history and current projects.
Education Pipeline
- Community Partner: Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project (Sacramento, CA)
- http://clylp.org
- Description: CLYLP is a statewide, community-based organization founded in 1982. Our mission is to enhance and build the leadership potential of California’s Chicano/Latino youth to build communities and create a stronger more prosperous state and nation.We are interested in someone that can help us define a strategy for analyzing the effectiveness of our outreach and education programs. Student will be an active participant in the programming of our annual leadership institute that takes place in the summer at California State University, Sacramento
Sexual Health Education
- Community Partner: Planned Parenthood (Los Angeles,CA)
- https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-los-angeles
- Description:Planned Parenthood Los Angeles’s Education programs promote healthy sexual relationships, responsibility and equality in Los Angeles County communities by building capacity in youth and community members to serve as resources for sexual health information. The Intern will assist PPLA’s Education staff in preparing and implementing training for High School Peer Advocates and/or Community Health Workers on sexual and reproductive health topics. The student will prepare training materials, assist in the parent orientation and training sessions, and conduct observations.
Electoral Advocacy
- Community Partner: Bay Area Rising & SF Rising (Bay Area,CA)
- https://bayrising.org
- http://www.sfrising.org
- Description: Bay Area Rising and San Francisco Rising is a new grassroots alliance that has united to make lasting change in San Francisco. Our members represent the rising majority of the city – low income and working class communities of color – who contribute to the wealth and unique beauty of this city but have not benefited from its prosperity. One project, we are interested in is someone doing data analysis around local campaign finance, where "dark money" is coming from, into our electoral candidates and campaigns. We'd love for this information to be synthesized into a presentation for organizers and members.We are looking for someone who is interested in supporting us in creating new, community-based political infrastructures capable of running sophisticated electoral operations each election cycle, and winning.
Food And Health Education
- Community Partner: 1000 Grains (Menlo Park, CA)
- Description: 1000 Grains has been offering innovative family-centric programs on healthy lifestyles primarily in low-income communities on the peninsula for over five years. Spanish is the first language of nearly 100% of participants, so candidate interns must be bilingual.1000 Grains is interested in deepening our community engagement by designing and implementing a Text Messaging Program through which we send past program participants periodic messages (reminders, tips, announcements) structured to reinforce new-found healthy behaviors.
Youth and Law
- Community Partner: Centro Legal de la Raza:Youth Law Academy (Oakland, CA)
- http://centrolegal.org/our-work/yla/
- Description: The Youth Law Academy is a diversity initiative of Centro Legal de la Raza to build the pipeline to a legal career for underrepresented students. We recruit diverse Oakland students to participate in our three year program while they are in high school, and provide ongoing support while they are in college. We provide a curriculum that includes how the legal system works, a mock trial, ethnic studies and the law, SAT preparation, examination of landmark Supreme Court cases, a Mentorship program, college application support, and an internship component.We are interested in someone to help us develop program curriculum and materials, organize a mentoring event, and possible other opportunities depending on interest.
PREPARATION AND FINALIZED INTERNSHIP PROPOSAL
All CRSI participants are required to take CSRE 146: Community Matters – Research and Service with Community Organizations before the summer internship begins. The course will focus on developing the student's community research internship. Topics include: framing research questions, community-based methodologies, mentorship/supervision strategies (communicating what you want/need as an intern), ethical service and research, and giving back (developing strategies for your research that benefits the community).
Once a student has been selected for the summer internship experience, s/he will work in coordination with CCSRE’s Director of Community-Engaged Learning and the faculty mentor to finalize the research proposal and community placement.
IRB
Students whose projects meet the formal definition of research as defined by Stanford University are required to complete the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process of their academic school in order to proceed with their research. If you believe your research will need to go through Human Subjects Review, please make sure that you have met with your faculty mentor and that s/he is approved by the university to sponsor research. Students should carefully monitor university guidelines and timelines regarding IRB review in order to insure their proposal is approved prior to the start of the research project. You should seek support on IRB application from your faculty mentor.
INTERNSHIP ASSIGNMENTS, EVALUATIONS, AND ACADEMIC CREDIT
Fellows will complete several assignments in Summer 2018. These assignments include:
- Weekly one-page reflections throughout the course of the internship.
- Two meetings (in person or via Skype) to discuss research progress.
- End-of-summer paper (12-15 pp.), including a discussion of research methods, findings, and conclusions.
- Community Dissemination of their research. The form of this dissemination will be decided through collaboration with the community partner. It might be a written product, web-based, an or event, etc.
- Two photos that document their research.
- Students will share their research with other interns, faculty, and community partners, and other interested students at the Stanford Engaged Scholarship Conference.
SUMMER STIPEND & BUDGET
CCSRE summer internship recipients will receive up to $7000 during the course of their internship, depending on financial need and proposed living expenses. Students will spend no less than 300 hours working to complete the internship and most internships should be designed as 8-10 week experiences. These funds are issued as a stipend and should be used to support any expenses associated with the internship. An estimated budget that outlines personal expenses (e.g., travel, health related expenses like insurance or vaccinations, housing, per diem or food) and project expenses (e.g., supplies, services like translation or transcription, honoraria or compensation for research participants, etc.) should be included with the application to explain how the stipend will be used.
Applications due: March 7th, 2018
If you are interested, please send an email to Rigoberto Marquez at rmarquez@stanford.edu for more information.
