UW RDS PIT 2023

Graduate Student Volunteer Recruitment

UW 2023 Seattle area homeless count Project is looking for Graduate Student Volunteers

Do you want to get involved in a large scale social science research project to improve

the measurement and lives of people experiencing homelessness in King County?

  • Want to learn more about homelessness in King County?
  • Want to be part of collecting data on homelessness that policymakers can use?
  • Want to know how we study homelessness?
  • Want to get off campus and actually talk to the people we’re studying?

Consider joining the UW 2023 Seattle area homeless count Project Team!

Volunteer to participate in a UW project to count people experiencing homelessness and collect information about their well-being! You will also have opportunities to,
  • Learn new methods
  • Project management and survey administration experience
  • All Graduate student volunteers will receive a cash gift card as a thank you for volunteering
  • Opportunity for academic publishing – Sign up sheet here [will be made available soon]
  • Opportunity for policy reports – Sign up sheet here [will be made available soon]
  • Course credit as an independent study with Zack Almquist, Associate Professor of Sociology

Details and Expectations for Graduate Students

Volunteer Sign Up

  • Please look over the locations where the surveys will be administered and times before applying, volunteer sheet can be found here. Study period [time in the field] will be April 17th to May 17th.
  • If you are interested in joining, please fill out this Google Form (requires UW account). If you have any questions, please email Zack Almquist (zalmquist@uw.edu).

Policy-makers use this to make real change!

Previous RDS work was reported in PubliCola, Seattle Times, Real Change, and the Washington Post. Results from these studies can be found on the HUD PIT Report for King County. The project this year will develop the method further and collect even more data that can be helpful for even more informed policy-making.

Project Leads

  • Zack W. Almquist, Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Amy Hagopian, Professor of Health Systems and Population Health
  • Paul Hebert, Research Professor Health Systems and Population Health
  • Nathalie Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology and Jackson School of International Studies

FUNDING

This project is supported by an NSF CAREER Award #SES-2142964. A University of Washington Population Health Initiative’s Tier 2 Pilot Grant and the Center for Studies in Demography and Social Ecology, and a UW Royalty Research Fund grant.