| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-5 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | General Anthropology |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1 2018 |
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- Anthropology
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In: General Anthropology, Vol. 25, No. 2, 01.09.2018, p. 1-5.
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T1 - Taking Anthropology Off Campus
T2 - Developing and Sustaining an Applied Research and Education Program
AU - Austin, Diane E.
N1 - Funding Information: BARA’s mission is to prepare the next generation of professional anthropolo gists, advance knowledge of the human condition, and address the pressing is sues of local communities. The intern ship program aims to achieve all these objectives. Under pressure to increase class sizes and online offerings, we maintain the internship program through large, multi-year funded research initiatives that bring in overhead and help support post-doctoral and graduate student researchers. We partner with local community-based organizations on projects with little or no funding, and provide opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to work alongside community leaders. Benefits of the former include funding to pay salaries, travel, and equipment, and opportunities for students to learn how federal agencies, large NGOs, and tribal governments work, and how to write, manage, and fulfill contracts. For example, since 1997, more than two dozen graduate students and a dozen undergraduates have worked on projects funded by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (formerly the Minerals Management Service) in positions ranging from fieldworker to transcriber and database manager. The students also participate in conference calls and in-person meetings with agency contacts and share findings at public forums. They have learned to adapt scopes of work to community realities, work with community research partners, collect and synthesize qualitative and quantitative data, and write contract reports. Several students were instrumental in the data collection that led to my participation as an expert witness in the penalty phase of the BP trial (Austin, Penney, and McGuire 2017).
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
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U2 - 10.1111/gena.12044
DO - 10.1111/gena.12044
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SN - 1537-1727
VL - 25
SP - 1
EP - 5
JO - General Anthropology
JF - General Anthropology
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