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  • Scholarship and Social Justice Conference

    Scholarship and Social Justice Conference

    Underagrads: Submit your reasearch abstracts for presentation consideration

    February 10, 2021

    Every spring, the Center for Public Service & Engaged Scholarship at Harvard College has the pleasure of hosting the Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference.The 2021 Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will be held on April 8th  & 9th, 2021.  They are soliciting proposals from undergraduates who are conducting independent research.  This is an opportunity for undergraduates to present research and findings to faculty and peers.

    For 2021, they are primarily interested in research that focuses on groups, communities, or issues underrepresented in research. This year, they are looking for proposals that address health, education, and political access. Below are some examples of previous successful proposals. 

    • The Politics of Representation: A Study on the Impact of Electoral Systems in the United States- Mills College
    • Incorporating Native Hawaiian Knowledge, Community, and Culture in Health Research: The Challenges of Multicultural Settler Colonialism- Harvard College
    • Speaking for Ourselves: The Evolving Activism of Black Psychiatry from Integration to Black Power-Harvard College
    • Whose Schizophrenia? How Race, Class, and Gender Intersect with Conceptions of Psychiatric Diagnosis- Wesleyan University

    Link to Request for Proposals here

    For more information, contact: Varsha Ghosh at vghosh@fas.harvard.edu

If you have any questions, please contact Economics Advising Office at 860-486-3022.