Student Internship Opportunities
Student-Scholar Partnership (SSP)
The SSP is a paid, on-campus internship designed to give undergraduate students a unique learning experience by allowing them to work side-by-side with WSRC scholars and affiliated faculty in a multitude of fields. The SSP emphasizes relationship building and networking, with real-world skills learning and application as the core of the working relationship.
The program is open to Brandeis undergraduate students and offers positions each academic year. Students are hired for either 100 hours over the course of the academic year (not including breaks), or for 50 hours over the course of a semester. In a few cases, two students share the 50 hours.
Currently coordinated by Kristen Mullin, the SSP was launched in spring 1997 as a project of the Women's Studies Program. Today, the program continues as an important component of the Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC). The SSP is unique in how it emphasizes relationship building and networking with real-world skills learning and application as the core of the working relationship. Students and their scholars and faculty jointly contribute intellectually to a shared project with mutual benefits.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Brandeis undergraduate students can explore the SSP openings through Brandeis Workday. Open positions will also be posted on our Open Positions page. Projects are different each semester, and we offer work in many different fields and studies.
Hiring decisions are made on an ongoing, rolling basis. Pre-screened applicant resumés are forwarded to the appropriate scholar. Each scholar then reviews the resumés they have received and schedules an interview with qualified candidates. After being hired, the final step in the partnership formation process is an orientation meeting with the program coordinator during which program expectations are explained.
Once accepted, partnerships actively work together on a project in the scholar's field of interest.
Past projects have involved work in areas as diverse as art installations, book publications, translation, and scientific and social research. The work that students have done in the past ranges from editing videos, writing, using the library, and even mastering a puppet show! Projects deal with many themes - all relating back to the WSRC mission, but ageism, gender identity and sexuality, mental health, cultural/ethnicity studies, art, poetry, and trades are a few common fields.