About

The goal of SPDR is to provide undergraduate students, graduate students, law students and faculty at the University of Washington as well as working professionals with contextualized subject matter expertise, skills in research methodologies and hands-on experience. Specifically, SPDR aims to: 

• Build expertise in strategic technology policy fields such as space, cybersecurity, AI, autonomous systems, robotics, nuclear, energy, and quantum information technologies. 

• Deepen knowledge of global and regional studies and place current situations in their historical, legal, regulatory, and political contexts. 

• Provide training in policy-relevant qualitative methods and software analytics (e.g., ATLAS.ti) built on open-source data via interviews, focus groups, case studies, archival research, discourse analysis, and data ethnography 
• Professionalize students for real-world problem-solving, with an emphasis on experiential learning. 

For any questions, please email us at SPDR@uw.edu

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