ISSR Consultant Ashley Carpenter first student speaker in history of UMass Graduate Commencement

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We are excited to announce that Ashley Carpenter, who recently defended her doctoral dissertation in Higher Education Administration, has been selected as the first student speaker in the history of Graduate Commencement! Ashley has been an invaluable member of the ISSR Methodology Consulting team, sharing her expertise in qualitative methods through one-on-one consultations and workshops on qualitative interviewing and analysis with NVivo. 

Summer Methodology Workshops | Registration now open!

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From photovoice to computational modeling, ISSR has advanced methodology workshops to expand your research and persuasion toolkit this summer. Since 2012, ISSR has offered a varied program of advanced research methods training each summer, through hands-on workshops taught by specialists in their fields. These two- and three-day courses are designed and priced to be accessible for faculty, graduate students and research professionals seeking to expand their methodological skills.

Gender in the Social Science Professions | Four Views on Diversity and Progress in the Social Sciences

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On February 21 2019, a full house packed the ISSR lab to explore research on how gender affects the conduct of research and professional life more broadly for social scientists. This article summarizes the discussion highlights, and shares valuable resources for those interested in the topic. This seminar was the second in our Social Science and Social Location series which focuses on the ‘positionality’ of researchers, asking how our social location informs the way in which we go about our scholarly lives, the questions we ask, the approaches we take to inquiry, and the way that we conduct our scholarship more broadly.

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