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 ...
Faculty-Led Program Areas Have a New Name & Approaching Deadline
November 7, 2022 In response to the changing needs of our community, IRWG has been rethinking some of our long standing programs. Faculty-Led Program Areas will now have an annual call and an initial program period of two years with the possibility of renewal. They also have a newly defined purpose, are open to all ...
15 Undergraduates Selected for First SOAR Cohort
September 2021 In June, IRWG received a five year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and implement an innovative academic and research mentoring program for undergraduate students across the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) is a multi-component theory-based two-year long research education mentoring program ...
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 ...
NIH Funded Research Project: Pregnancy and postpartum support programs for women in prison
May 24, 2021 IRWG’s Consortium for Gender Responsive Prisoner Healthcare has been awarded a new grant as part of a five-year project funded by the National Institutes of Health. This multi-site collaboration seeks to understand how providing incarcerated pregnant women with enhanced pregnancy and postpartum care may improve maternal and neonatal outcomes. Driven by mandatory ...
Plans for Fall Meetings & Events at IRWG
May 2021 With the expected return to in-person instruction and campus life in the fall, we surveyed IRWG faculty affiliates, committee members, program directors, researchers, and working group members about their preferences for virtual or in-person meetings and events. Our survey included preference rankings for small meetings (fewer than 10 people), larger meetings (more than ...
The Development of the MiStory International Trauma Recovery Research Consortium
The Multicultural Study of Trauma Recovery (MiStory) is an international research consortium working to understand how context, culture, the self, gender, and trauma recovery intersect. Directed by Professor Denise Saint Arnault with funding in part from IRWG seed grants, the collaborative currently has 30 members from 13 countries across several continents, and continues to grow. ...
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 ...