Internships
Through the program's elective internship option, students work on a policy project and apply relevant theory and technical skills to a public policy issue. Students with substantial prior public policy work experience may prepare a substantive analysis of some prior public policy experience, rather than undertaking a new experience. The internship will normally be completed in the third year of the program.
Our Internship Guidelines provide specifics on course requirements.
Sample internship projects have included:
- Policing in Massachusetts: Setting a Policy Agenda
- Foster Parenting in Maine: A Study of Those Who Cease to Foster
- The Impact of Welfare Reform on Individuals with Disabilities in the TANF System
- Process, Politics and Policy: What's Wrong with the 3Ps Model of Congressional Policy-making
- Action for Boston Community Development Documentation Project
- Homeless Management and Information Systems
- Legislative Advocacy as it is Conducted By and For Congressional Staff
- The Deerfield River Comprehensive Agreement: Public Participation in Hydropower Relicensure in Massachusetts and Vermont
Learning to Build an Equitable Society
Contact us via e-mail at public.policy@umb.edu for more information on our doctoral program and internships, or see our PhD Program contact page for additional ways to contact us.
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"Earning my Ph.D. (at age 53) was the biggest accomplishment of my life. I continue to remind myself that if I could do that, I can undertake and succeed at many different challenges."
-- Doreen Stern, Ph.D.
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