Our organizational commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in our research projects, organizational culture, and partnerships serves as a foundation for our work as the National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility, including fellowship programs, grant programs, research, publications, and events.
IRP Announces Recipient of National Dissertation Award For Research on Poverty and Economic Mobility
IRP Honors the Life and Legacy of Former Director Bob Haveman
From IRP Director Katherine Magnuson: Robert (Bob) H. Haveman Obituary It is with deep sorrow that we share the news that former IRP Director Bob Haveman passed away, surrounded by family, on Saturday June 18, …
IRP pleased to partner with City of Madison on Madison Forward Fund
The Madison Forward Fund, a guaranteed income research program to support low-income families in Madison, Wisconsin, launched on June 21, 2022. The effort brings together the City of Madison, the Institute for Research on Poverty at …
IRP Announces Three Recipients of Funding for Poverty and Economic Mobility Research
2022 Research Funding Areas: Child Welfare and Reentry from Incarceration
The 2022 extramural research funding program supports research on how human services program and policy design, implementation, and practice create, perpetuate, and dismantle inequities in the following two programmatic areas: (1) child welfare; and (2) …
2022 IRP Summer Research Workshop
(Please note that participation is by invitation only. For more information please contact Dana Connelly at (dana.connelly@wisc.edu) Current Research on the Low-Income Population June 13-16, 2022 Grainger Hall, Room 1295 University of Wisconsin–Madison Agenda MONDAY, …
2022 IRP Summer Research Workshop Paper & Presentation Upload
We will be providing your paper and slide presentation to workshop participants via a link on the workshop agenda webpage (private – for participants only). We will not be providing paper copies. We ask that …
2022–2024 Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship Call for Applications: Deadline 7/11/2022 (11:59 PM CT)
Application Deadline: July 11, 2022 (11:59 p.m. Central Time) View/download PDF version of the call View Webinar: About the Fellowship and How to Apply | Presentation Slides The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University …
IRP announces 2022–2023 cohort of National Poverty Fellows
IRP is pleased to announce the incoming cohort of 2022–2023 National Poverty Fellows postdoctoral scholars who will be in residence in three different federal offices starting later this year. The fellows are: Sarah Charnes (PhD 2021, …