Robert Motley Jr., a doctoral candidate at the Brown School and manager of the Center for Social Development鈥檚聽, has received a two-year $60,936 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities and a $5,000 grant from the Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation.
The funding is for his dissertation study entitled 鈥淩acism-Based Trauma, Emerging Adults, and Substance Abuse.鈥�
The funding 鈥渟ignals the significance of the work,鈥� Motley said. 鈥淔indings from the research will increase our knowledge of the prevalence and disparities in exposure to police use of force and also identify risk factors that substance-use prevention and intervention programs can target to assist black emerging adults.鈥�
Motley鈥檚 research focuses on advancing methodology for measuring exposure to racism-based police use-of-force events and understanding of the relationship between exposure to police use of force, trauma symptoms and substance use for black people who are 18-29 years old.