Graduate Researchers are the backbone of the lab — two-year appointments for master’s and doctoral students who want to lead: directing student teams, standing up data-archiving infrastructure, and producing original data journalism and public-interest analysis with real-world stakes.

We welcome graduate students from every discipline and method — information science, journalism, computer science, statistics, environmental studies, law, public policy, the social sciences, and beyond. If you work with data and care about democratic accountability, your background fits.

You’ll gain project leadership, faculty mentorship, a portfolio of published work, travel to practitioner venues like IRE and NICAR, and a network spanning newsrooms, civic groups, and our Center for Environmental Journalism collaboration. Funding and stipend details are to be confirmed.

Ready to lead? Tell us about yourself or email brian.keegan@colorado.edu.