Welcome Katherine Briar Lawson e welcome your interest in our School and in our doctoral program. Our doctoral program is prized for a number of reasons. Core courses and electives allow students to tailor much of their work to their own research, policy, and practice interests. Students in the program represent leading colleagues from state government, research institutes, and community based agencies in the U.S. and around the world. Course work and research studies are undertaken with our top-ranked faculty whose scholarship and productivity is nationally recognized, year after year.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is fostered.
Our Ph.D. students have opportunities to work with faculty in nationally ranked programs such as Public Affairs, Criminal Justice, Psychology, and Sociology. The Capital region is a pivotal site for policy and practice pilots that can inform services, programs, and laws. Growing partnerships involving the school, state and local agencies, and communities position students to use their studies to be design leaders and facilitators of 21st century practices and policies. International partnerships also involve relevant research and educational initiatives. Complex challenges affecting diverse individuals, families groups, and communities require complex systems and front-line practice change.