The Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University (MFRI) has funding available for individuals who are interested in military family research and would like to earn a graduate degree in Human wwwelopment and Family Studies at Purdue.
This Graduate Research Assistant will be a member of the Family Journeys project team. Family Journeys is a longitudinal study of families experiencing military deployment. Data is gathered by in-person interviews with families before, during and after deployment. In addition to managing successful data collection, the Family Journeys team also has responsibility for producing scholarly papers from these data on behalf of the MFRI research program.
The team working on the Family Journeys project includes PhD staff; faculty members from Purdue; graduate students; undergraduate students, and contractual field interviewers.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please e-mail a copy of your resume or vita to Research Director Dave Topp at dtopp@purdue.edu. The opportunity is contingent on successful admission to the Purdue's graduate program in the Department of Human wwwelopment and Family Studies.