PHMC’s R&E Group is now accepting applications for its 2020-2021 Visiting Scholars Program. The Visiting Scholars Program, initiated in 2018, provides a unique opportunity for academic researchers working in the social, educational and behavioral sciences to pursue their research in collaboration with PHMC researchers and practitioners. We invite applications from a diversity of Scholars and disciplines, but for the 2020-2021 program year are seeking Scholars whose research is focused in addictions and criminal justice, early childhood education, and hepatitis C. Because of the requirement for researchers to work collaboratively with teams at PHMC, the Visiting Scholar Program is best suited to researchers who are within commuting distance of Philadelphia (e.g., MD, NJ, PA, NY and DE).
Welcome Dr. Jeffrey T. Ward, 2020-2021 Visiting Scholar
We are pleased to welcome 2020-2021 Visiting Scholar, Dr. Jeffrey Ward to the Research & Evaluation Group. Jeffrey T. Ward, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Criminology, Law & Society (2011) and is a past recipient of the prestigious Harry Frank Guggenheim Dissertation Fellowship.
Dr. Ward’s research focuses on addressing critical research problems in two overarching and complementary areas—developmental and life-course criminology and measurement of criminological constructs. This work forms the foundation for his visiting scholar research at PHMC that will focus on a multi-site data effort to further validate the Risk and Needs Triage (RANT®), a web-based tool designed to help criminal justice professionals place adult drug offenders into appropriate programs and settings. His research takes a developmental and life-course approach to understand stability and behavior change, including investigating the roles that social, psychological, health, role attainment, and criminal justice system contact play in these processes.
The Visiting Scholars Program, initiated in 2018, provides a unique opportunity for academic researchers working in the social, educational and behavioral sciences to pursue their research in collaboration with PHMC researchers and practitioners.
Applications for the 2021-2022 Visiting Scholars Program – coming soon.