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The PhD Program

Family social science graduate programs offer you a unique program of study using the insights and methods of the social sciences to examine how families develop and grow within various contexts and cultures. You will learn to:

• integrate family theory, research, and practice

• produce scholarly research

• develop effective and innovative teaching skills

Your program of study will include research and coursework across the breadth of family social science, including:

• conceptual theoretical frameworks

• research, assessment, and evaluation methodologies

• implementation and translational research

• community collaborations and system change initiatives

Faculty are nationally and internationally recognized leaders and researchers committed to your success. Their research areas encompass child adjustment in families; families and culture; families and financial decisions; family formation and intergenerational studies; families, loss, and trauma; intimate family relationships; and parent and family education.

Learn more about our program, on our website.

RAs can

• Learn to run participants through stress-related tasks and administer questionnaires.

• Learn how to collect and clean qualitative data through our study protocol.

• Help with data cleaning/scoring and participant scheduling tasks while learning about how our studies run.

• Potentially develop independent projects and honors theses with our data sets

RAs should

• Be interested in what we study.

• Be willing to commit to at least one year.

• Be willing and eager to learn new skills.

• Have good basic computer skills.

• Have good attention to detail.

• Have excellent interpersonal skills.