IRP co-hosts, with the University of California, Davis’s Center for Poverty & Inequality Research (CPIR), a biannual week-long National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility Early-Career Mentoring Institute (ECMI). Held in Davis, California, the ECMI provides valuable mentoring and career development opportunities to poverty and social mobility scholars who are in the early stages of their research careers and who have the potential for leadership.
An interdisciplinary roster of four distinguished faculty mentors, four featured speakers, and up to twelve ECMI participant scholars will attend the week-long institute. In addition, ECMI participants will be eligible to apply for a small financial award to support the development of their policy-relevant human services research portfolio.
Institute activities provide participants with opportunities to develop skills that will support policy relevant human services research. The Institute will address a wide range of professional development topics, such as:
- Becoming an effective mentor
- Key topics in human services research
- Building and managing a research team
- Developing effective writing habits
- Engaging with media, community organizations, and lawmakers
- Grant writing strategies
- Including participant voice in research
- Studying hard to reach populations
- Conducting policy relevant research
- Secondary data sources: promises and pitfalls
Attendees are competitively selected in a biannual call for applications. IRP and UC Davis plan to host the workshop in 2022, 2024 and 2026.
Current Call
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2026 Early Career Mentoring Institute Grant Awardees
Jordy Coutin
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
School of Planning, Public Policy and Management; College of Design
University of Oregon
Monica De La Cruz
Position title: Adjunct Faculty
Address:
School of Nursing and Health Professions
University of San Francisco
Kimberly Fuentes Carrillo
Address:
Department of Social Welfare
University of California, Los Angeles
Alice Guan
Position title: Research Scientist
Address:
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
Madri Hall-Faul
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
College of Social Work
University of Kentucky
Aimee Imlay
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
Department of Sociology
Mississippi State University
Hyun Ju Kim
Position title: Project Director III
Address:
Institute on Disability
University of New Hampshire
Sungjin Lee
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
School of Public Affairs
San Diego State University
Emily Loveland
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
School of Social Work
California State University San Bernardino
Antoine Lovell
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
School of Social Work
Morgan State University
Bhardwaj Sakshi
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
2024 Early Career Mentoring Institute Grant Awardees
Kimberly Higuera
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
Social Sciences Department
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Ryan Parsons
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Mississippi
2022 Early Career Mentoring Institute Grant Awardees
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
Department of Public Health Services
University of Chicago
Liwei Zhang
Position title: Assistant Professor
Address:
School of Social Work
University of Georgia