Writing a Research Statement

Try to situate your work in the context of your field, so that people from across your field can understand the impact of your work. This is particularly true when you are applying to smaller schools and community colleges where there may be only 1-2 sociologists in a department of social sciences and human services, for example.

Additional Resources

Samples

• Penn Career Services sample teaching and research statements
• Duke University Career Center research statement suggestions and samples
• To find samples from your own academic discipline, search on the Internet for “your discipline” + “research statement”

Articles

• “Writing Samples and Teaching Statements” by Julie Vick and Jennifer Furlong in The Chronicle of Higher Education
• “Dr. Karen’s Rules of the Research Statement” from The Professor Is In
• Research statement advice from Cornell University
• Research statement advice from the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

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