CISS Announces Peer Supports for Writing and Research
Are you looking for a quiet place to write? A community with whom to brainstorm about nascent research ideas? Do you need a space to air your frustrations or learn (or share) life hacks to help with the research and writing process? CISS is piloting a series of platforms to help faculty, postdocs and graduate students to find inspiration and community for their scholarship. To help us plan future events, please complete this brief Jotform.
Please join as at one of these upcoming events!
| Drop-in writing times | Bring your laptop and grab a seat in the CISS conference room to get some writing done. The quiet well-lit space provides a space for dedicated writing time with peers. Wade Campbell (CISS affiliate and CAS/Archaeology and Anthropology) will coordinate and seeks a co-coordinator. | Tuesdays 10 am to noon; Wednesdays 1:30-3 pm, starting October 2.
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| Early-stage research workshop | Are you looking for input on a fresh research idea? Please sign up for one of three 30-minute slots to share your idea and get feedback from peers.
Presenters include: Ryan Sakoda (CISS visiting scholar, and law professor at University of Iowa). This project (with Daria Fisher Page and Brian Farrell) will conceptualize and attempt to measure (using Census data) the concept of “legal vulnerability.” This idea builds on the concept of social vulnerability, which describes factors that shape how individuals experience and recover from environmental hazards to assist in planning decisions and resource allocation. We hypothesize that a similar approach might be used to anticipate “legal vulnerability” in a particular community — the likelihood that individuals in a specific place may experience justiciable events. |
Tuesday October 10; 2 – 3:30 pm; future dates TBA |
| Writing & publishing support session | Writing and publishing can be a long and frustrating process. In this conversation facilitated by Catherine Caldwell-Harris (CISS affiliate and PBS/CAS) and Deborah Carr (CISS director and Sociology/CAS), participants can share their latest milestones and struggles in the research process, and offer one another life hacks to make the process more pleasant and productive. Dr. Caldwell-Harris will kick off the discussion by sharing psychologists’ insights about procrastination, achieving flow and adrenaline-fueled deadline crunches. | Thursday October 26; 3:30-5 pm. |