Together, we shape the future of education—one research project at a time.
As a student, you'll have the opportunity to engage in transformative work that advances the field of education and drives meaningful, real-world impact. By supporting our renowned scholars, you contribute to projects that push the boundaries of knowledge and practice, addressing the most pressing challenges in education today.
Student Research Opportunities
Graduate Assistantships
Many of our full-time master's students are eligible to be considered for paid graduate assistantship opportunities to work on research with faculty.
Early Childhood Education and Family Studies
Earn an academic certificate that will build your capacity to support programs, policies, education, and the well-being of young children and their families.
Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Training Program
A multi-year training program for Penn Ph.D. students committed to learning rigorous methods for conducting actionable, equitable field-based research to inform policy and practice.
Research In Progress
Autumn Brown
Autumn's research interests are centered around leveraging her ten years of experience as a humanitarian aid and development practitioner to generate actionable evidence around how to promote children's positive development in understudied contexts. This involves evaluating program impacts, investigating environmental influences on children’s development, assessing measure appropriateness across diverse socio-cultural contexts, and enhancing program implementation quality. In Penn’s RIPPLE Lab, Autumn supports RCTs in Ghana and Nigeria. As an IES Fellow, Autumn worked with Mathematica during the design phase of a multi-site RCT integrating parenting support into TANF programs and with an improvement network supporting high school students’ math achievement in rural California. Autumn is passionate about working in close collaboration with practitioners and making research findings accessible to a wide range of stakeholders.
Explore Our Areas of Research
As a top-tier research university our faculty, students, and research community have the support to pursue groundbreaking research.
