On November 3, 2022, ISSR hosted a conversation between Kathy Roberts Forde, Associate Dean of Equity & Inclusion, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Journalism and Traci Parker, Associate Professor in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, both at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Video | 2022-11-03 | Journalism & Democracy - Conversation with Kathy Roberts Forde and Traci Parker
First generation scholars can now find support for the publishing process from the FirstGen program at the University of California Press. Check out the resources on offer!
https://www.ucpress.edu/resources/firstgen-program
On October 25, 2021, ISSR and the UMass Department of Sociology's Committee on Colloquia and Social Events hosted a panel discussion among eight contributors to an important new edited volume of feminist theory and practice. Video from the online event can be viewed here for a period of 120 days.
On October 20, 2021, ISSR celebrated Erica Scharrer's and Srividya Ramasubramanian's new book, Quantitative Research Methods in Communication: The Power of Numbers for Social Justice, an important new resource on using the power of numbers to advance social justice.
This week, ISSR Director Joya Misra was one of the expert sources cited in the New York Times feature article on the COVID-19 pandemic's gendered impacts on faculty, and in particular the need for more thoughtful recognition in many institutions of the added burden of care that often falls to female faculty. Read the full story at The New York Times.
A call for interventions from the Antipode Editorial Collective:
https://antipodeonline.org/
This week, the Center for Employment Equity released a new report entitled The COVID-19 Recession: An Opportunity to Reform our Low-Wage Economy?. A shorter, public briefing paper on the same topic appears in The Conversation under the title How the coronavirus recession puts service workers at risk .
In response to heightened concerns about the spread of COVID-19 and in keeping with the decision to transition to remote course delivery at the UMass Amherst campus , we are writing to share some of our ongoing efforts to promote excellence in the social sciences during this period.
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?
