Internship/Research Opportunities
Each of these topics represent a potential internship and/or research project – please don’t hesitate to contact us if something appeals to you!
Research
- Legislative/Public Health: Follow developing legislation about DV/IPV and ED in public healthcare. There are a few web-‐based ways to follow bills and track their progress. Activities: investigate all current and upcoming legislation and track it, develop systems to identify individual/communities of interest and reach out to them. (Ongoing)
- Social Media and Medical Education: Millennials learn differently. An intern concerned with emerging education strategies in medicine and the social sciences would review existing social media outlets, and analyze new upcoming social media and education technology strategies including distance education. Activities: research, deploy and test various strategies, analyze outcomes, suggest best practices. (Ongoing)
- Literature Review: Investigate best practice for existing and new works – Summary and synthesis of the intellectual and practical progression of thinking in any number of current and potential topics for new plays. Eg. substance abuse, Hospice/elder care, retaining family medicine practitioners, rural medicine, chronic pain, Out & Allied/LGBTQ issues, adapt The Thin Line for medical audience, brain injury, lawyers in crisis. Activities: research and evaluate current writing on issue, synthesize and suggest outcomes. (Ongoing)
- Corporate Citizenship: Many corporations and other organizations believe in giving back to their communities. An intern interested in this area would survey corporate citizenship avowals, compile a database of organizations whose citizenship goals match Add Verb’s focus areas of health and wellness and social change, analyze the corporate follow through, noting the variety and depth of support offered, synthesize findings and suggest partnerships that Add Verb might pursue. (Ongoing)
- Longitudinal study focus groups: Grad students only – specific to current 3 year study regarding the efficacy of TTL and YTM in six Maine High Schools. Participation in focus group discussions with High School students on Eating Disorder Awareness and/or domestic violence-‐sexual assault, gather data, organize data, analyze data, synthesize, make recommendations. Work with Principal Investigator and IRB regarding the ethical and efficacious testing of human subjects. Time Sensitive: End of September 2011 through 4/30/12. There is some funding for these positions. FILLED
- New Works: Script materials/Writing Workshop – Youth writing and performance as activism for fields of eating disorder awareness and domestic violence/sexual assault are always changing, and an intern with this focus would research latest information and trends, compile data, analyze it and compare to current Add Verb materials for Health and Wellness Education, synthesize and suggest changes. (Ongoing)
Education
- Writing/Directing: Script materials/Writing Workshop – Add Verb actively seeks new submissions for their recently published book, Out and Allied Anthology. This book features youth writing and performance as activism. As Intern with this focus would work closely with Add Verb founder and playwright Cathy Plourde as she leads workshops with youth to develop personal narratives about bullying, oppression and LGBTQ and allied concerns. These narratives and character composites are then adapted from the written word to performance pieces, and ultimately performed and/or selected for publication. (Ongoing)
- Education Standards: Add Verb has an urgent need to match our materials up with State and National Education Standards and Learning Results, and Continuing Education Standards for all professions in preparation for offering Continuing Education Credits and curriculum materials for our programming. This intern would research, compile, assess, compare, synthesize and make recommendations on this topic for either of our primary topics. They would write materials to accompany our programs that align with the standards. (Excellent opportunity for a grad student to be a PI and gather material for publication – must be completed by the Summer 2012)
- Directing/Acting: New programs and actors are being developed all the time at Add Verb; an intern interested in directing/acting would work closely with Cathy as she auditions, selects, rehearses and produces a given show or event. Opportunities include dramaturgy, script analysis, stage management, production assistant, assistant director or director. (This internship is FILLED for Fall 2011)
- Community Outreach and Education: Educating communities, and providing safe spaces for difficult conversations are two of Add Verb’s primary areas of focus. An intern interested in community activism, conversation and connections would investigate community networks pertinent to our topics and engage them in development activities around creating safe spaces for discussions using our programming. The intern would help to build coalitions of interest around a topic to increase Add Verb’s impact on the community. (This internship focuses on faith based communities until Spring 2012)
Publication
- Editing/Design Project I: O & A Vol II – Submissions are being sought for the O&A Anthology Vol II. An intern with an interest in queer youth activist theatre would research avenues for soliciting submissions, manage and develop those submissions, edit, write, compile and help design the publication. (Publication of Volume II is scheduled for Fall 2012. Spring, Summer and Fall positions are currently available)
- Editing/Design Project II: Add Verb has a variety of scripts ready for publication, topics ranging from money management for women, how to talk to teens about sex, smoking cessation etc. An intern with the right skills and interests would become familiar with the play(s), write introductions and/or gather supplemental materials following Add Verb’s established practices of carefully researched and professionally vetted support materials, and if capable, work with a designer to publish all for use in educational settings. (Ongoing)
Please email any internship/research inquiries to: addverb@une.edu
