Everything Counts: Messaging about Physical Activity
New guidelines on physical activity from the World Health Organization remove the need for aerobic activity to occur in bouts of at least 10 min duration. In a commentary for the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Michelle Segar (IRWG research scientist and SHARP director) and co-authors argue for new messaging strategies. They note that traditional approaches ...
Calling for a Radical Redesign of Antiharassment Efforts in Higher Ed
In an opinion piece published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Anna Kirkland, Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Lilia Cortina, Professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and Kathryn B.H. Clancy of the University of Illinois called on colleges ...
Anna Kirkland joins NSF Working Group on Readying Populations for the COVID-19 Vaccine
April 21, 2020 Social scientists from around the country are collaborating as part of a Working Group on Readying Populations for the COVID-19 Vaccine. The group is supported by the National Science Foundation-funded CONVERGE Initiative and the Social Science Extreme Events Research (SSEER) network. The purpose of the working group is to develop an agenda ...
Measuring and Understanding Contemporary Street Protest
How do we study protest? What components are available to measure, how do we measure them, and what does it all mean? IRWG research professor Michael T. Heaney recently co-authored an article titled, “The science of contemporary street protest: New efforts in the United States,” for the journal Science Advances. In it, the authors review methods for studying ...
IRWG welcomes visiting scholars, post-docs, and affiliates to Lane Hall
We’re delighted to host a number of new people in Lane Hall this academic year. From research affiliates to postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars, our building is full of interesting and lovely people: Katherine Behar, Artist-in-Residence Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary media and performance artist and Associate Professor of Art at Baruch College. She is known among scholars of ...
New study shows shows that the Women’s March promotes support for intersectional activism
IRWG research professor Michael Heaney’s study, “Intersectionality at the Grassroots” was recently published in the journal Politics, Groups, and Identities. Drawing on surveys conducted at Women’s March events in five cities and four other Washington, DC activist events in 2018, this study examines the extent to which activists think that the movements should place a ...
Transnational Feminist Summer Institute
Last month, the “Transnational Feminist Histories” project of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender hosted a nine-day feminist summer institute, organized by Professor Wang Zheng. Participants included young feminist students and scholars from China, the University of Michigan, and diverse locations globally who have been working on the history of international socialist feminism. ...