Faculty Research Groups
Joining a faculty research group is an effective way to get feedback on your research and helps you develop a network of like-minded scholars across disciplines. UMass and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences has many dynamic, active working groups that are open to new members:
Current Faculty Research Groups
| Unit | Research Working Group Title | Brief Description of Group Activities | Meeting times/Location | Coordinator |
| Sociology | Orgnet | Brownbag for working papers on organizations and networks | Typically biweekly / Machmer 32 | Anthony Paik |
| Sociology | Cluster Brownbags | Working papers across subfields | Weekly | Joya Misra & Anthony Paik |
| Legal Studies | Five College Legal Studies Seminar | Research presentations (usually working papers) | Typically monthly | Paul Collins |
| Communication | Technology, Society and Media | Information pending until coordinators selected | Information pending until coordinators selected | Point people are elected in fall |
| Communication | Media Effects | Information pending until coordinators selected | Information pending until coordinators selected | Point people are elected in fall |
| Economics | Gender and Economics Working Group | Research discussions of articles and members' work in progress, as well as presentations of work in progress | Crotty Hall/Gordon Hall; Meeting time decided by mutual agreement | Nancy Folbre |
| Economics | Critical Agrarian Studies and Political Economy Working Group | Research discussions of articles and members' work in progress, as well as presentations of work in progress | Crotty Hall/Gordon Hall; Meeting time decided by mutual agreement | Mwangi Wa Githinji |
| Economics | Analytical Political Economy Working Group | Research discussions of articles and members' work in progress, as well as presentations of work in progress | Crotty Hall/Gordon Hall; Meeting time decided by mutual agreement | Peter Skott & Arslan Razmi |
| Economics | Environmental Working Group | Research discussions of articles and members' work in progress, as well as presentations of work in progress | Crotty Hall/Gordon Hall; Meeting time decided by mutual agreement | James Boyce & Michael Ash |
| Economics | Political Economy Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Tuesday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | David Kotz |
| Economics | Economic Theory Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Monday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | Donald Katzner |
| Economics | Economic History and Economic Development Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Wednesday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | Priyanka Srivastava |
| Economics | Applied Micro Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Wednesday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | Ina Ganguli |
| ISSR | Sustainability and Social Science Research working group | Cross college discussion of work and potential collaboration, building scholarly community, seed funding for external proposals | tba--can sign up through Elisa Martinez to be added to email list, many events listed on website | Anita Milman & Elisa Martinez |
| Political Science | Political Economy Working Group (PEWG) | Research discussions of work in progress by faculty, grad students and outside visitors working in political economy | Monthly, usually in Machmer E23 | Kevin Young & Regine Spector |
| Public Policy | SPP Annual Faculty Colloquium | Monthly talks by UMass and 5-Collge faculty on policy-related research and works-in-progress. Designed to stimulate scholarly collaborations among policy-oriented faculty across campus. | First Monday of every month during academic year, 12:15-1:15 pm in Thompson 620. | Charlie Schweik & Al Roberts (email TBD) |
| Public Policy | Racial Justice Working Group | Cross-department discussion growing out of CRJUA grant planning process | TBA for AY18 | Fred Rose |
| Public Policy | UMass Air | Cross-campus collaboration around the use and policy implications of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) | TBA for AY18 | Charlie Schweik |
| Resource Economics | Experimental Economics Reading Group (EERG) | The group meets weekly to read and discuss papers in experimental economics. Papers are chosen by group members, and so topics vary by semester and interst. The meeting is open to other disciplines interested in experimental methods and to members of the 5-Colleges | TBA for AY18, but typically Fridays 2-3PM | Angela de Oliveira or John Spraggon |
| Regional Planning (LARP) | Climate & Infrastructure: Sustainable Adaptive Gradients reading group | Read and discuss current articles and public policy related to resilience and climate adaptation | TBA for AY 18 | Elisabeth Hamin |
| Institute for Diversity Sciences (cross departmental) | Climate & Infrastructure: Sustainable Adaptive Gradients reading group | Faculty interested in multidisciplinary collaborations in health disparities present their work, receive feedback, comment on others, and self-form into multidisciplinary reseach teams. Teams may apply for seed grants given out by the Institute to fund small projects that can be leveraged into future bigger external grants. | Monthly meetings in AY 2017-18. Will be scheduled in late August. If interested please contact organizers | Buju Dasgupta and cc. Tori Lundblad |
