CLEAR partners with WSU Humanities Clinic

This summer, CLEAR welcomed in two part-time summer interns, Hyeonah Kim and Julie Julison as a part of Wayne State University’s Humanities Clinic program. Hyeonah is a PhD Candidate in Political Science, and Julie is an incoming PhD Student in Anthropology. The Humanities Clinic program works to connect WSU humanities students to job opportunities at Wayne State and across the city of Detroit as a way for students to gain critical skills prior to entering the job market. Both Hyeonah and Julie bring their social science and analytical expertise to the program, and worked on a variety of tasks with the Research Transition team as a part of the Administrative Core of CLEAR, including social media and website organization.

The main task that Hyeonah and Julie assisted with was created a metrics survey for CLEAR faculty and trainees to use throughout the academic year to report on publications, presentations, funding, and community collaborations. Both interns were introduced and learned how to use Qualtrics, which is a popular web-based survey platform used in social science research. The survey platform is also an important tool for social science PhD students to understand and know how to use. The metric survey makes it easier for CLEAR's Administrative Core to regularly capture data and communicate CLEAR's research outputs and impacts in a variety of ways, including in end of year reporting to the National Institute of Environmetnal Health Sciences through the National Institute of Health, which funds CLEAR's research and programming.