Early Career Scholars Special Interest Group (ECS SIG)
Are you a new and emerging scholar, currently in school or having graduated in the past 7 years? Are you interested in early childhood home visiting? Do you want to be part of a community of scholars also interested in home visiting? Join HARC’s Early Career Scholar Special Interest Group (ECS SIG).
The goal of the ECS-SIG is to provide a forum for home visiting researchers and evaluators early in their career (including students) to meet and share experiences, resources, and opportunities.
Topics may focus on elements of home visiting practice worthy of study (e.g., innovations in service delivery, home visiting program quality, approaches with different populations or groups), specific research designs (e.g., participatory or community-engaged research, longitudinal research designs), or may focus on the members of the SIG themselves (e.g., SIG focused on early career scholars, practitioner-researchers, or members of groups underrepresented in the home visiting research workforce).
To join the ECS SIG, please sign up here.
Schedule
The ECS SIG meets on the fourth Tuesday of every other month from 1-2pm EST. Below is the schedule of upcoming meetings.
- December 1, 2026, 12-1pm: Heather Sandstrom from Urban Institute
- January 26, 2027, 1-2pm ET: Julia Heany from Michigan Public Health Institute
- March 23, 20272, 1-2pm ET
- May 25, 2027, 1-2pm ET
Resources – there are many resources for early career scholars on the HARC website in the Resource Library, link here, and on the webpage for early career researchers, link here.