Jan 31, 2019
The Social
Security Administration’s (SSA’s) Analyzing Relationships between
Disability, Rehabilitation and Work (ARDRAW) Small Grant Program is
a one-year $10,000 stipend program awarded to graduate-level
students to conduct supervised independent research designed to
foster new analysis of work, rehabilitation, and disability issues,
which may develop innovative and fresh perspectives on disability.
ARDRAW focuses on research relevant to SSA’s work incentives and
employment supports – specifically rehabilitation, work and the
disability program.
Potential research areas of
inquiry include, but are not limited to:
Working conditions of SSA
beneficiaries
Work accommodations and needs of
SSA beneficiaries
Non-competitive employment for
SSA beneficiaries
Vocational and other types of
service use by SSA beneficiaries
Non-SSA assistance provided to SSA
beneficiaries
APPLICANT
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must be masters,
doctoral, or post-doctoral-level part-time or full-time graduate
students pursuing studies in accredited programs at the time of the
award (Fall semester of 2019) with an academic emphasis in topics
of interest to disability programs, including, but not limited to,
public health, social work, economics, occupational medicine,
vocational and rehabilitation counseling, public policy and
administration, sociology, psychology, education, medicine,
employment, and law.
https://ardraw.policyresearchinc.org/