NIJ’s 2024 Research Assistantship Program

The Research Assistantship Program offers qualified doctoral students the opportunity to bring their expertise to NIJ and apply their studies to challenges of crime and justice. Accepted candidates will work across a myriad of NIJ projects and research portfolios to obtain practical and applied research experience. 

Previous NIJ research assistants have gone on to accept positions as full-time faculty at universities, associates and directors of research centers, and analysts and agents at local and federal law enforcement agencies.