Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow
Location: New Haven, CT
Closing Date: March 31, 2025
The Justice Collaboratory (JC) is a social science research center at Yale Law School that brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and researchers to cooperatively work toward a theory-driven, evidence-informed justice system. Our work is centered around the criminal legal system but is more broadly concerned with the goal of building vibrant communities. The JC infuses policy with empirical research to make the criminal legal system in America more just, effective, and democratic.
About the Role:
The JC seeks a full-time Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow to begin on July 1, 2025, for a one-year appointment. The Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow will support the JC through the management of quantitative data and other social science research tasks.
Responsibilities:
- Occasionally conducting quantitative analysis along with cleaning, coding, merging, and preparing data files for analysis using statistical or general programming software (e.g. R, Python, SAS, SPSS, STATA, or similar).
- Participating in team research and stakeholder meetings.
- Using research analysis to inform recommendations of policy and practices.
- Conducting literature reviews.
- Drafting research instruments.
- Helping administer surveys in Qualtrics.
- Designing and creating reports, dashboards, and other types of data visualization and project deliverables for practitioners and larger audiences.
- Support internal events and convening when needed.
- Attending JC convenings, including member presentations and conferences.
