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 | |
Sociology | Cluster Brownbags | Working papers across subfields | Weekly | |
Legal Studies | Five College Legal Studies Seminar | Research presentations (usually working papers) | Typically monthly | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Economics | Political Economy Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Tuesday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | |
Economics | Economic Theory Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Monday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | |
Economics | Economic History and Economic Development Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Wednesday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | |
Economics | Applied Micro Workshop | Paper presentation series | 209, Crotty Hall, Wednesday 4 PM, dates listed on dept website | |
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 | |
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 | |
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. | |
Public Policy | Racial Justice Working Group | Cross-department discussion growing out of CRJUA grant planning process | TBA for AY18 | |
Public Policy | UMass Air | Cross-campus collaboration around the use and policy implications of unmanned aerial systems (UASs) | TBA for AY18 | |
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 interest. 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 | |
Resource Economics | Industrial Organization Reading Group | Presentations and discussions of research papers and members' works in progress. | Fridays 12:00-1:15, 303 Stockbridge Hall | |
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 | |
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 research 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 |
Legal Studies/Political Science | Five College Faculty Seminar in Migration Studies | The purpose of the seminar is to bring together Five Colleges faculty working on issues of migration and citizenship, to promote teaching and research in the field, and to encourage constructive exchanges between faculty and local community groups active in defending the rights of vulnerable migrants. During the 2017-18 academic year, the seminar aims to organize a reading group on critical migration studies scholarship, to host one or two invited speakers, and to sponsor one colloquium to the discussion of Seminar participants’ work. | TBA for AY 18 |
