Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods

Instructor(s): Christopher Maxwell, Criminal Justice, Michigan State University

The workshop on the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) is a five day course focusing on the development, implementation, and data products of PHDCN. Initiated by the National Institute of Justice, the PHDCN developed into a multi disciplinary and multi agency funded project that combined two studies into a single, comprehensive ten year research program to: (1) study Chicago's neighborhoods, including their social, economic, organizational, political, and cultural structures; and (2) follow 7,000 randomly selected children, adolescents, and young adults over three points in time. The workshop instructors will cover the project's designs, questionnaires, sampling frames, and data components. Workshop lecturers will present alternative approaches to modeling these data based upon hierarchical, longitudinal, and spatial techniques. Course participants will have the opportunity to reproduce work presented in the lectures and conduct their own analyses addressing questions that interest them using research ready data files. Enrollment in the course is limited. Stipend support of up to $1,200 is also available for a limited number of participants admitted to the workshop. Applications must include a vita and cover letter summarizing research interests, course objectives, and experience. The workshop is sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, and it will be managed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. Participants whose applications are selected will need IRB approval prior the start of the workshop from their home institution if they plan to continue their research with PHDCN data beyond the workshop. Please include the IRB approval with the application, if available. More information about PHDCN is available on the PHDCN Web site.

Dates: June 16-20

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Fees:  Member: none;  Nonmember: none

Applications must include a vita and cover letter summarizing research interests, course objectives, and experience. Application materials are due by 2008-05-01.

Note(s): Supporting materials should be uploaded to the Summer Program Portal.

Last Updated: 2008-04-09