Voice Up Research Internship 100% Remote

VOICE UP PUBLISHING, INC.
INTERNSHIP TRACK A · THE RESEARCHER
100% Remote · Academic Credit Available · Spring · Summer · Fall 2026
You ask the questions.
The community answers.
One conversation at a time, truth becomes data.
For students who want to do research with communities not on them.

THIS IS FOR YOU
Have you ever sat with someone in a real moment when something meaningful was being shared and knew instinctively how to respond? That moment matters more than you think. It is the foundation of behavioral health, whether or not it is formally recognized.
Voice Up was built on a simple but powerful truth: change begins with one conversation at a time. Before there was data, infrastructure, or research design, there were real conversations honest, human exchanges that revealed how people experience purpose, belonging, and identity in their everyday lives. Those conversations became the foundation for everything that followed.
This internship places you inside a real, active research initiative built from those conversations. You will work directly with data from thousands of participants across hundreds of universities, helping answer a critical question: Why do people who are already supporting others not see themselves as contributors to behavioral health? And how can that shift?
You will learn how to engage in research that starts with listening. Not extracting. Not assuming. Listening one conversation at a time and then translating those conversations into meaningful insights.
The data we work with isn’t abstract. Every number represents a real person who showed up and shared something true. Your job is to honor that and help us understand what it means.
You will collaborate alongside doctoral students from Georgia State University’s School of Public Health, guided by faculty committed to ensuring that research reflects real human experience. If your work demonstrates rigor and depth, you may have the opportunity to contribute to published research.

WHAT YOU’LL DO
Facilitate Meaningful Conversations
Engage with participants through structured dialogue focused on purpose, work, and belonging. These are not scripted interactions they are real conversations that require presence, empathy, and attentiveness.
Analyze Human Experience at Scale
Work through thousands of participant responses, identifying patterns and themes that reveal how people understand their role in helping others and why many fail to recognize their own impact.
Translate Conversations into Evidence
Support the development of qualitative frameworks, codebooks, and reports that transform lived experience into research that institutions can understand, fund, and apply.
Contribute to a National Grant Effort
Your work directly supports Voice Up’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant initiative one of the most competitive health equity opportunities in the country ensuring that community-rooted insights shape national conversations.

WHO THIS IS FOR
This internship is especially valuable for those in:
Public Health
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology
Data Science
Community Research
Research Methods
However, all disciplines are welcome. If you are someone who pays attention to people, asks meaningful questions, and wants to understand what actually helps others, this is for you.

STRUCTURE & COMMITMENT
Time Commitment: 8 10 hours per week
Format: Fully remote and flexible
Academic Credit: Available through most institutions
Stipends: Available for Voice Up University participants
This model is intentionally flexible, allowing you to contribute meaningfully while balancing your academic or professional commitments.

THREE WAYS TO JOIN
There is no single path into this work only a shared commitment to learning and contributing. All tracks involve real participation.
Academic Credit
Partner with your university to receive internship credit. Voice Up provides supervision, documentation, and required evaluations. Typically 1 3 credits.
Volunteer Track
Open to anyone, regardless of institutional affiliation. Contribute to meaningful work, build your portfolio, and receive formal documentation of your impact.
Voice Up University
A more immersive pathway with structured learning, global peer cohorts, and priority access to stipend opportunities.

WHY THIS MATTERS
Most research starts with frameworks. Voice Up started with conversations.
The founder built this work by showing up consistently one conversation at a time listening deeply, and recognizing that people already carry the knowledge of how they help others. What was missing was a system to see it, name it, and scale it.
This internship invites you into that system.
You are not just analyzing data you are helping validate human experience, elevate unseen contributions, and reshape how behavioral health is understood. By grounding research in real conversations, you contribute to a model that is more inclusive, more accurate, and more impactful.

APPLY
To apply, email with:
Your name
Your school or background
A statement of interest in Track A The Researcher
Two sentences on why this opportunity is meaningful to you

Voice Up Publishing, Inc.
voiceuplab.org · · 317.279.5319
100% Remote · All Disciplines Welcome · Spring · Summer · Fall 2026

Zero percent had ever connected what they were doing to the possibility of a career in behavioral health. Not one. They were doing the work, and they had no idea that the work had a name, a pathway, a profession attached to it. No institution had ever told them. No counselor or advisor or career center had ever pointed at what they were doing and said: that is clinically relevant. That is what therapists do. That is what the field is desperately looking for.
The workforce doesn’t need to be built from scratch. It needs to be seen.
Fuller named this the Naming Gap. The phrase is deceptively simple the gap between what someone is already doing and the moment an institution recognizes it. In practice, he discovered, that gap could be closed in approximately two minutes. A precise, clear definition of behavioral health work. An explicit statement that what the participant was already doing in their community qualified. Something shifted not gradually, not over months of exposure, but almost immediately. People who had spent years helping others without a framework for understanding why or how suddenly had one. The pipeline, Fuller argued, didn't need to be created. It needed a name.
"The system has spent decades assuming these communities lack the skills," he said. "The research shows the opposite. The skills are there. What's missing is the institution's willingness to see them."