Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) Fellowship Recruitment

IRP 2025-2026 Graduate Research Fellows Program accepting applications

Deadline to Apply: Thursday, May 15, 11:59pm CT | Application Form

Enrolled PhD students who are on-campus at UW-Madison are eligible to apply for the IRP GRF program if they have an interest in U.S. poverty research. The elements of the GRF program are:
+ IRP Seminar Series;
+ participation in Fellowship training meetings;
+ eligibility to apply for financial support for research training;
+ eligibility to apply to access the Wisconsin Administrative Data Core (WADC) for use in their dissertation research on a US-based poverty + + research topic; and
+ eligibility to compete for an IRP Dissertation Research Fellowship in the final years of their PhD program.

Questions can be directed to irpapply@ssc.wisc.edu.

Link for more information.