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Rigorous qualitative, quantitative, community-based, and participatory-action��research��are key ingredients of academic learning at AV����. This independent learning opportunity is designed to allow advanced students to engage in real-world��research��with faculty who are currently engaged in specific projects. The program will give students the opportunity to develop vital skills in��research��design, data acquisition and interpretation, written and oral communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving — all of which are of particular value for students who are pursuing a graduate degree, as well as for graduates who are already in the job market.

Eirik Steinhoff��works with people who want to learn more about how to do things with words. His overarching��research��question is: “What needs to be the case for things to be otherwise?” He is an apprentice to the tradition of “Urgent Studies” inaugurated by AV���� elder Richard Cellarius in a manifesto co-authored in 1972 that calls for action-oriented interdisciplinary inquiry in order “to focus and legitimize��research��on solutions to our major crises.”��Participating students will join Eirik Steinhoff's research lab, and may have opportunities to develop their own research projects.

Primary zones of study for Spring 2023 include:

• College in prison and beyond (including WA state and federal policies and practices in light of recent legislation);
• Forestry on state lands (including WA state policies and practices in light of the climate crisis);
• Relation between mass incarceration and forestry in WA;
• AV����’s past, present, and future.