Power & Partnerships in Community Engagement: Strategizing with IRWG Affiliates
As part of our new relationship with the Ginsberg Center, we are pleased to offer a workshop for IRWG affiliates on Tuesday, September 12 from 12-1pm in Lane Hall. This special session of Ginsberg Center’s Power & Partnership in Community Engagement is designed with IRWG affiliates and grant applicants in mind. This interactive workshop will ...
Examining the Role of Research Development in Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
April 2022 Rebecca Shea Irvine (IRWG’s Program Director for Faculty Research Development) and Alexus Roane (IRWG Graduate Fellow for Research) were recently awarded a grant from the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP). Their project, Examining the Role of Research Development in Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion aims to explore how research development (RD) ...
Supporting research to solve complex problems: Q&A with Rebecca Shea Irvine
September 2021 Rebecca Shea Irvine joined IRWG as the Program Director for Faculty Research Development in June 2021. In this role, she advances all types of feminist research by working with faculty to find funding sources, craft proposals, and develop research agendas. Rebecca also consults on book proposals, arts and performance-based research, hosts brainstorming sessions, and ...
Research Development Updates: A Note from Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Fall 2019
September 20, 2019 Our annual newsletter, Genderscapes is a great time to share some of the successes we have had supporting faculty with funding for their research. Last year I provided feedback on grants worth almost seven million dollars. While not all of these were funded, below is a selection of those that were successful. ...
New Research Collaborations: Building Scholarly Community to Address Big Questions
Under Anna Kirkland’s directorship, IRWG is growing as a networking hub for research collaborations that seek to tackle big societal issues related to gender. “Questions about gender are everywhere, but on a large, decentralized campus like Michigan’s, it can be hard for researchers to connect. This is where IRWG comes in,” explains Professor Kirkland. Three ...
Water Insecurity and Gender in Mexico City
In January, Professor Elizabeth Roberts (Anthropology, IRWG Affiliate Faculty) and her research team began fieldwork in Mexico City. The fieldwork is part of her “Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City (NESTSMX),” an NSF-funded four-year collaborative interdisciplinary project that brings together expertise from anthropology, environmental engineering, and environmental ...
Coaching faculty on research agendas and grant proposals
September 2018 My family got some exciting news in the summer of 2018. My uncle Jerry Stitt spent his career as a baseball coach at the college level as well as for the major league. Trevor Hoffman, one of the students he coached at the University of Arizona, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of ...
Research Development at IRWG
This article was originally featured in the Fall 2016 issue of Genderscapes, IRWG’s annual newsletter. IRWG’s primary mission is to support and foster interdisciplinary research on women, gender and sexuality at the University of Michigan. One way to provide this support is by awarding internal funds through small grant programs. Some research projects, however, are ...
Q&A with Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Program Director for Faculty Research Development
This interview with Dr. Stitt was featured in the Fall 2015 issue of Genderscapes, IRWG’s annual newsletter. One of the main services IRWG provides to the university is the fostering of innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship. Director Sarah Fenstermaker recognized that IRWG’s already strong presence as an incubator for feminist research would be strengthened with the addition ...