CISS to Hold Project Management Workshop (November 14)
Successful research depends on effective project management. Learn from BU faculty (and CISS affiliates) how to organize your research, effectively engage student research assistants, coordinate with collaborators, decide on authorship and more on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 from 3:00-4:30 pm. The presentation will be followed by audience Q&A. The workshop is intended for faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows; expert panelists will offer insights from quantitative and qualitative research projects.
The event will be held at 704 Commonwealth Ave, 5th Floor in the CISS Conference Room.
Panelists are:
Peter Blake, Associate Professor (CAS, Psychological and Brain Science and CISS steering committee), is the director of the Social Development and Learning Lab. His research focuses on three important foundations of human life: cooperation, fairness and ownership. He is interested in the cognitive and social processes that underlie children’s social interactions around material goods. His experiments are based on game theory, meaing that children can gain or lose resources like candy or stickers depending on their decisions. He is currently extending projects to different cultures in order to look for common developmental patterns and assess cultural variables that influence cooperation.
Randall Ellis, Professor (CAS, Economics), has a background in industrial organization and econometrics which he applies primarily to health economics, spanning both US and international economics topics. His recent work focuses on health care payment systems, insurance, innovation, and predictive modeling using big data. An associate editor at Journal of Health Economics and American Journal of Health Economics, and the US country coordinator of the Risk Adjustment Network, his current research funding is from the AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) and HRSA (Health Resources and Services Adminstration).
Nazli Kibria, Professor (CAS, Sociologyand CISS steering committee), focuses her research on the areas of migration, race, family, and childhood with an emphasis on South Asia and the Asian American experience. Her current projects include research on experiences of economic decline in families and on the negotiation of adult sibling relationships across divisions of social class, immigration, and citizenship. Her collaborative project Cascading Lives is funded in part by the Gates Foundation.
Spencer Piston, Associate Professor (CAS, Political Science), has been named a Distinguished Junior Scholar by the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and has also won awards from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Caucus of APSA and the State Politics and Policy Section of APSA. His research examines the politics of oppression in the United States, focusing on race, class, public opinion, political behavior, elections, the welfare state, and the criminal justice system. He is the author of Class Attitudes in America, which was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. His scholarship has also been published or accepted for publication in many leading social science journals, including The American Political Science Review, Du Bois Review, Electoral Studies, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Political Behavior, Political Communication, Political Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Urban Affairs Review.
