Join the ISSR Team! ISSR is looking for a tech-savvy student to work for 10 hours per week, providing IT support for staff and workshops, maintaining and updating software licenses, and assisting with website maintenance.
Duties:
Run regular updates, including virus and other software updates as needed, to Windows and methodological software on 12 lab laptops; update software licenses annually or as new versions become available; provide IT support for ISSR academic year and summer program workshops and academic year seminars, including assistance with wifi access and use of external monitors; troubleshoot minor hardware and software issues and communicate with external IT services about software and hardware problems as necessary; occasional update and IT troubleshooting support for ISSR staff computers. NOTE: Knowledge of the specific methodological software packages that ISSR uses is not required.
ISSR is pleased to co-sponsor the Methods Symposium 2019, to be held Saturday, October 19, from 10:00am to 5:00pm at South College. Workshop registration is now closed, but all are invited to join the open Roundtable Discussion, from 3 - 5 pm in South College W245:
What Is the Methods Symposium?
At the Methods Symposium organized by graduate students in the English department, we hold workshops and a roundtable where we discuss questions about methodology in Queer Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Black Studies. This year, we are organizing the Methods Symposium for the second time. Professors Pheng Cheah, University of California Berkeley (Postcolonial Studies), Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah (Queer Studies), and Jauyna Brown, Pratt Institutey (Black Studies) will be joining us as workshop leaders and roundtable participants.
The Institute for Social Science Research is pleased to announce its 2019-20120 Scholars, who represent four colleges and six departments across the University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus.
Meet our 2019-2020 Scholars:
ISSR is proud to congratulate Elizabeth Evans, ISSR Scholar and Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, on the $10.2 million center grant awarded for the proposal she developed in her 2018 ISSR Scholars year in support of vital research on opioid treatment with incarcerated populations in Massachusetts. The ISSR Scholars Program is a proven investment in the research and career development of promising UMass faculty, providing strategic grantsmanship mentoring and support to a growing cohort of social scientists across the UMass colleges and disciplines.