Do you feel passionately about strengthening local community-engaged research while creating tools for the New Haven community to access research about them? YCEJ just launched the New Haven People and the Environment Research Library (New Haven PERL) a special collaboration between YCEJ, Hixon Center for Urban Ecology, the Environmental Humanities and the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health funded by a Planetary Solutions seed grant and the Rosenkranz Award for Pedagogical Advancement. This partnership has grown to include units across Yale, partners from surrounding institutions, and New Haven-based organizations. 

The goal of the digital repository project is to make research available to New Haven residents, and research communities in New Haven including Yale, surrounding institutions and community organizations. The aim is for researchers and students to build on existing research and avoid duplicating efforts, for community members to easily access the research findings, and ultimately, to develop a bi-directional community of practice to deepen community-engaged research at Yale and beyond. 

Who Can Apply?
All currently enrolled graduate and undergraduate students at Yale are eligible to apply

Key Information

10-20 hours/week for summer 2025

5-7 hours/week during the fall and spring semesters

Paid position $19.00/hour

Collaboration is essential to success in this role 
How to Apply
Send resume and short statement of interest through the Yale Student Jobs Portal. Please send any questions to YCEJ Program Manager, Kristin Barendregt-Ludwig (kristin.barendregt-ludwig@yale.edu).
 
Additional Information
About the position 
YCEJ is hiring two Community-Engaged Research Fellows who will work as a team to:
Grow and maintain the New Haven People and the Environment Research Library and integrate it into existing research structures at Yale, in other participating research institutions, and within the New Haven Community. 
Continue populating content of NH PERL, refine program operations and evaluation structures, 
Socialize use of NH PERL across Yale, New Haven, and surrounding research institutions by implementing and refining communications plan and supporting events/presentations with New Haven community organizations and other user groups.

Work with a variety of internal and external partners to support the development and refinement of the tool and lay groundwork for next phase of development including AI enabled querying and an enhanced user-facing landing page and impact dashboard.

Each Fellow will have a defined, individual scope and regularly interact with the other two, as well as with other campus partners, community-based organizations and advising leadership.  

About YCEJ 

Anchored by a growing team of renowned scholars and activists, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice addresses multiple existential threats whose roots lie in environmental and social injustice. We work with over 30 faculty and centers across Yale as well as in communities around the world to remedy the key drivers of injustice while co-creating generative solutions for a just and sustainable world.  

The Center is ramping up significantly this year to lead a global conference on Environmental Joy, launch an online certificate program to move significant resources for clean energy projects into EJ communities, expand EJ research and education across Yale, offer new courses in Traditional Indigenous Knowledge, Tribal Co-Management and Energy Justice. We are looking for passionate, talented students to join our team!