Community Engagement Associate: Museum of Broken Relationships Research Support
Seasonal role: 8/30/2024-5/15/2025
Estimated pay: $14.00 per hour
Company division: Institute for Engaged Learning
Location type: On-site
Summer up to 25 hours per week, Academic year up to 10 hours per week
Role Description
DUE is home to IEL which is sponsoring these types of positions across campus. This specific position is part of the Community Engagement Associates program in which students work in a specific department on campus to support campus and community engagement initiatives. You will see more information on the specific job and department below.
Department Sponsor:
Museum Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts
Research Support CEA
The Community Engaged Research Support CEA works directly with a faculty or staff mentor to support the creation, expansion, or deepening of a community engagement project or program not connected to a specific course. In a research support role, employees are expected to operate with a high level of autonomy and self-direction to exercise judgement and decision making during in their research responsibilities. Work may include but is not limited to: communicating research findings both written and orally, assisting with data collection and data analysis, assessing community needs or social issues, and applying developed research instrument and protocols based on project parameters.
Number of positions available: 1
Project Summary and Goals:
The Museum of Broken Relationships Indianapolis Project: Research Dissemination is the third phase of an ongoing initiative that partners the IUI Museum Studies Program and the Museum of Broken Relationships (MBR) (https://brokenships.com), a unique, global museum founded in 2006 that collects and exhibits the objects and stories that remain when relationships of all kinds end. At their home institution in Zagreb, Croatia, and in a series of temporary, community-based exhibits in more than 60 countries, MBR uses pioneering museum techniques to foster visitors’ self-reflection and learning about the universal topics of love, loss, and growth. In Phase Two (conducted this past year), we implemented a six-part, multi-method, IU IRB-approved evaluative study to describe patterns of participant engagement, assess if specific project outcomes were achieved, and explore additional areas of learning and benefit. This summer, we will embark on Phase Three, Research Dissemination, during which we will 1) further edit, illustrate, produce, and broadly disseminate the final report of our study findings to museum professionals and others; 2) create and disseminate a least one educational resource and/or program that shares our findings with helping professionals; and 3) create and disseminate at least one educational resource and/or program specifically for Indianapolis families.
Positions, Duties, and Tasks:
The CEA will assist with all aspects of this project. We seek a CEA who is flexible, possesses strong skills in writing, editing, communication, time management, and program development, and has previous experience and/or prior coursework in museum education/museum studies.
Learning objectives:
In accordance with the IUPUI Profiles of Learning for Undergraduate Success, experience in CEA positions will help students meet the learning outcomes below and become acquainted with the following profiles:
Communicator
Convey ideas effectively and ethically in oral, written, and visual forms across public, private, interpersonal, and team settings, using face-to-face and mediated channels
Describe the value of being involved in service or other forms of community engagement
Community contributor
Identify community or social issues that need to be addressed
Demonstrate evidence of respectful engagement with their own and other communities and cultures
Problem solver
Make connections among ideas and experiences
Availability needed for the CEA(s) schedule:
Flexible schedule; weekly zoom evening meeting required; day of week TBD