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NORC at the University Chicago
An opportunity for early career scholars to engage in research under the supervision of NORC expert staff, build skills, and participate in a mentoring and career networking program.

NORC at the University of Chicago leads a Diversity, Racial Equity & Inclusion (DREI) Scholars Program, an opportunity for early career scholars to engage in critical research under the supervision of NORC expert staff, build skills, and participate in a robust mentoring and career networking program. The program advances the skills of emerging research scientists, data scientists, statisticians, and methodologists pursuing research on diversity, disparities, equity, and inclusion and expands the pipeline of historically underrepresented populations pursuing social science research.

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Center on Equity Research (CER)

The CER conducts research to advance equity through the development, implementation and dissemination of high quality, inclusive and equitable social science research methods.

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Program Goals

The research scholars use existing NORC datasets and conduct equity-focused, secondary data analyses to inform programs, policies, and services that promote the social and economic well-being of diverse populations. The program:

    Trains and supports the next generation of diverse scholars:

    Mentorship: Research scholars collaborate with and are mentored by NORC DREI expert researchers who help guide, refine, and support the implementation of the secondary data analyses. The scholars also receive support and mentorship from other NORC experts, such as those in statistics and methodology.

    Fosters the exchange of ideas, research, and information:

    Collaboration & Networking: Research scholars participate in weekly calls with their NORC mentors and share their research with NORC’s DREI Research Collaborative, a panel of DREI subject matter experts at NORC.

    Program Aims

    NORC is interested in funding research on diversity, disparities, equity, and inclusion that has at least one of the following aims:

      1.

      Describe

      Describe how structures and other societal contexts frame the experiences of diverse individuals in the United States.

      2.

      Understand

      Understand strengths within diverse communities in the United States that promote individual success and well-being.

      3.

      Identify

      Identify important within-group variation that is key for enhancing programs in diverse communities in the United States.

      4.

      Examine

      Examine how racism impacts racially and ethnically diverse communities and individuals in the United States.

      Diversity, Racial Equity & Inclusion Scholars Alumni

      2022 Cohort

      Autumn Asher BlackDeer, PhD
      Dominique Tunzi, MSc, EdM
      Fei Wang, MSW
      Jonathan Reid, PhD
      Nora Marino, MPH
      Nneka Ibekwe Okafor, PhD

      2021 Cohort

      Meghana Chandra, MPP
      Juan Del Toro, PhD
      Isabel Goddard, MA
      Melissa Gutwein, MA
      Christine Head, MA
      Arturia Melson-Silimon, MS
      Wendy Ochoa, PhD
      Sruthi Swami, PhD

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