Career Opportunities
SCALE Postdoctoral Fellowship
The SCALE Initiative conducts rigorous research in partnership with educators on how to scale promising educational solutions to advance the knowledge base, empowering practitioners and policymakers to make informed decisions that make education systems more equitable and effective for all students. Our research falls into three buckets: understanding impact, understanding the landscape, and understanding the enabling conditions. Underpinning this approach is the potential for identifying avenues that can transform education practice and policy to increase equity and opportunities for all students. The SCALE Initiative partners with school districts, service providers, and umbrella organizations across the country to learn about the effectiveness of new and innovative programs, to learn about features of programs that drive effective, to better understand the challenges to implementation and how to overcome those challenges, and to utilize the unique data provided by tutoring to better understand teaching and learning.
The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to this work by leading one or more of the following research processes: The design and implementation of randomized controlled trials, the analysis of administrative data, the analysis of video and audio data, qualitative studies of implementation through interviews or focus groups, producing external reports for stakeholders and writing academic publications, and the building and maintaining of trusting relationships with external partners. A key goal is to ensure that the postdoctoral fellow is able to establish some projects for subsequent publication or contribute to the creation of a new research program.
Interested in joining our team as a postdoc? Learn more about how to apply.
The Summer Research Fellowship For Educational Impact
The Summer Research Fellowship for Educational Impact is designed to meaningfully engage undergraduate students in rigorous empirical research that addresses critical issues in education.
As Educational Impact Fellows, students will gain foundational research skills within a collaborative, cohort-based learning environment, while making important contributions to educational research studies with lasting impact on policy and practice. This fully funded opportunity will align Stanford undergraduates with one of a wide array of faculty-led projects that resonate with their interests and academic backgrounds, taking a deeply interdisciplinary approach to addressing issues in education, particularly around equity.
Interested in applying? The application for Summer 2025 is now available.
