Sanford PhD Student Graduate Seminar

Description from DukeHub

This weekly workshop is required for all Sanford School of Public Policy PhD students to attend and to participate by presenting policy-relevant and in-progress research. Students present a work in progress that is at a stage where it would benefit from friendly, constructive comments from a diverse audience. Students are required to present at least once during the academic year. Student advisors, faculty and peers provide feedback during or after the presentation.

Skills

• policy and lawdepartment: PUBPOL
• public speakingAI review: "presenting policy-relevant and in-progress research"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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• Applied Statistics for Public Policy PUBPOL 150D
• Who Gets What - and Why? Public Policy, Health, and Opportunity in the US PUBPOL 191CC

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