{"id":8304,"date":"2014-09-03T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2014-09-03T18:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T22:16:46","slug":"8304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/2014\/09\/03\/8304\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Practicum opportunity at ICRW in India!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Center for Research on Women<br \/>\nNew Dehli, India<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duration:<\/strong> Fall 2014 (September-December)<br \/>\n<strong>Vacancy:<\/strong> 1<br \/>\n[Additional opportunities available beginning in January.]<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrw.org\/where-we-work\/asia\" target=\"_blank\">International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)<\/a> works to make women in developing countries an integral part of alleviating global poverty. Our research evidence identifies women\u2019s contributions as well as the obstacles that prevent them from being economically strong and able to fully participate in society. ICRW translates these insights into a path of action that honors women\u2019s human rights, ensures gender equality and creates the conditions in which all women can thrive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scope of Practicum:<\/strong><br \/>\nICRW has recently concluded a project on gathering quantitative and qualitative data on school related gender based violence (SRGBV) from five countries in Asia, for which preliminary analysis has been done. This project is titled- PEAS- Promoting Equality and Safety in Schools. We are working towards developing research\/policy brief and write journal article. Within this, the student would be expected to:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Prepare drafting research\/policy brief from the existing report.<br \/>\n\u2022 Undertake additional multivariate quantitative analysis of the existing data to Review literature for the article<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preferred Skills:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn understanding and interest on the issue of gender and gender-based violence; and skill sets for undertaking a literature review, quantitative data analysis and writing.<\/p>\n<p>*Student is financially responsible for travel, housing, and living expenses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To apply:<\/strong>\u00a0email Ritu Mendiratta at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto: rmendiratta@icrw.org\">rmendiratta@icrw.org<\/a>\u00a0with cover letter and CV. \u00a0Please also inform Joe Anzalone via josanz@bu.edu of your intent to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Center for Research on Women New Dehli, India Duration: Fall 2014 (September-December) Vacancy: 1 [Additional opportunities available beginning in January.] The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) works to make women in developing countries an integral part of alleviating global poverty. Our research evidence identifies women\u2019s contributions as well as the obstacles that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7784],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8377,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions\/8377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ghblast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}