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The Public Engagement Project (PEP), was established in 2008. PEP is a collaboration between the Center for Public Policy and Administration, the Center for Research on Families, the Sociology Department, SADRI, and the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program.
PEP supports and trains members of the UMass Amherst community who want their research to make a difference in the world. This is done through panels, workshops, and mutual mentoring, PEP creates opportunities for researchers to learn new skills from experts and from each other to improve engagement with the media, community groups, policymakers, and others in the public arena.
[click here for the CPPA PEP website]
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
The Public Engagement Project (PEP) Panel: How to Make Friends and Influence Policy, Working with State and Federal Policemakers.
These informal panel are discussions that usually focus on themes in public engagement. Each forum featured brief introductory remarks by various Faculty and/or Guest Speakers on representations of race and gender, sexual and reproductive politics, affirmative action, the financial crisis, and much more. Following the introductions there is an open-mike discussion among members of the audience.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 3:00-4:30pm
Campus Center, Room 903
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Featured speakers will be:
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Robin Leeds, Senior political strategist, organizer, and advocate, Winning Strategies, LLC Washington, D.C., White House Office on Women's Initiatives (1994-2000).
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Cheryl L. Dukes, Associate Director of State Government Relations, University of Massachusetss Amherst.
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This event is open to all.
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The Public Engagement Project (PEP) Panel: Working with Social Movements: Lessons from the Front Lines. (February 27, 2009)
The panelists included:
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Sonia Alvarez, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and holder of the Leonard J. Horwitz Professorship in Latin American Politics and Studies, UMass Amherst.
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Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor and Acting Chair of the Labor Center, UMass Amherst.
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Amilcar Shabbazz, Professor and Chair of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst.
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M. V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration, UMass Amherst, and Research Director at the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA.
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The 2008 Presidential Election: A Sociology Department Forum ( November 3, 2008)
The forum featured brief introductory remarks by four faculty in the Sociology department:
• Sanjiv Gupta, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Sociology Department, UMass Amherst.
• Jen Lundquist, Associatet Professor, Associate Director of the Social and Demographic Research Institute (SADRI), UMass Amherst.
• David Cort, Assistant Professor of the Sociology Department, UMass Amherst.
• Amy Schalet,
Assistant Professor of the Sociology Department, UMass Amherst.
Following the introduction there was an open-mike discussion among members of the audience. This event was open to the campus and the Five College Community.
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The PEP Panel: Writing Op-Eds* and Getting Them Placed. (March 13, 2008)
The panelists included:
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Ralph Whitehead Jr., Professor of Journalism, UMass Amherst.
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Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, UMass Amherst.
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Robert Pollin, Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), UMass Amherst.
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Patrick Callahan, Associate News Editor, Office of News & Media Relations, UMass Amherst.
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Moderated by M. V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration, UMass Amherst, and Research Director at the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA.
*An op-ed is an opinion essay, typically printed on the page opposite the editorial page of a newspaper.
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The PEP Panel: Taking Research on Families Outside of the Academy, How to Craft Effective Media Messages. (October 3, 2007)
A forum to learn how to make research available to policy makers, journalists, practitioners, and the public. The panelists included:
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M. V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration, UMass Amherst, and Research Director at the Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA.
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Edward F Blaguszewski, Director of News & Information, UMass Amherst.
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Kyle D. Pruett, M.D., Clinical Professor, Child Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, and Director of Medical Studies, Yale Child Study Center.
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Marsha Kline Pruett, the Maconda Brown Professor of Psychology and Social Work, Smith College.
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Moderated by Amilcar Shabbazz, Professor and Chair of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst.
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