Six current and recent Ph.D. candidates have been chosen by the U.S. Department of Labor to participate in its inaugural summer fellowship program, which will provide the opportunity to develop their skills in analyzing federal labor laws, regulations and programs.
The fellows will complete a research project for their dissertation or on a labor topic and present it as part of the program, according to a July 19 Department of Labor news release.
“Our Summer Fellowship Program underscores our commitment to fostering future research leaders who can help advance labor in the future,” Chief Evaluation Officer Christina Yancey said in the release.
The fellows in the program will gain experience in their fields of study and will support the chief evaluation office’s work, which will instill the social science discipline as set up in the Department of Labor’s Evaluation Policy principles, she said, the release reported.
Fellows will work with the office’s Evaluation and Research or Data Analytics teams and support evaluation-building research activities, according to the release.
Evaluation and research fellows were chosen from universities in Nevada, Illinois and Pennsylvania. Data analytics fellows attend universities in Michigan, Minnesota and New York, the release reported.
