The Center for Social Science Scholarship invites applications for Faculty Working Groups to promote intellectual exchange in the social sciences and across campus. These collaborative scholarly learning communities will meet regularly to engage in such activities as: working on research projects, reading key literature, exploring new methodological approaches, and/or engaging in matters of public interest related to the social sciences, across campus, or with community partners.

Up to four Faculty Working Groups will be selected by the center director and advisory board members. Groups should be faculty-led and must include at least one faculty member from a social science department at UMBC. Additional priority will be given to groups whose members and/or areas of interest are multi- or interdisciplinary. Advanced graduate students may participate as Faculty Working Group members but may not serve as leaders.

Faculty Working Groups can apply for up to $1,000 in annual support ($500 per semester); groups will also be able to apply for continuation funding. Groups may use funds for such items as: supporting regular group meetings; purchasing software, books, or other materials; hosting external speakers; creating scholarly resources; traveling to external sites for research or public engagement purposes; and other similar activities. A brief report of the group’s activities will be due at the end of the funding period.

Apply by May 31, 2021, for groups to begin in Fall 2021.

Click here to download the application form.

Applications should be submitted via email to socialscience@umbc.edu. Questions may be directed to Christine Mallinson, Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship.

Call for Papers and Projects

• Social and regional origin, gender, religion, generation, social groups, migration,
• multilingualism, and language change and their influence on language, etc.
• Heterogeneity vs. homogeneity in the classroom
• Subjective factors of language attitudes and language ideologies
• Intersections between language and critical race theory, e.g. raciolinguistics, linguistic
• profiling
• Queer theory and queer linguistics
• Influences of sociolinguistics on education and language pedagogy
• Critical approaches to teaching with technology
• Varieties of language – Youth language; computer-mediated communication; spoken
• colloquial language
• Problematic aspects of contemporary applied linguistics research in which identity is a key construct
  

A Special "Grad Student Week" Workshop. Register Today!
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According to AARP, there are 5 million student caregivers in the United States. 7 out of 10 student caregivers say there caregiving roles affect their academic achievements. Student caregivers often encounter obstacles in balancing their caregiving responsibilities while trying to achieve academic success.

Are you student caregiver who provides care for a spouse, family member, friend, or neighbor? Are you interested in providing feedback on your experiences to help inform recommendations for additional supports at UMBC? We want to hear from you! Please take a short survey.

UMBC Student Caregiver Survey

The survey will take less than 5 minutes and will provide valuable information about your experiences and recommendations.

Thank you!

Nick Martorelli

UMBC Student Caregiver

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We at Gears invite you to our first-of-a-kind event IDEATHON. How can new or existing problems can be tackled better by using your unique idea?  IDEATHON is all about presenting your unique idea to the jury and fellow graduate students in UMBC.  You can participate either individually or in a group of no more than 3 people.

This event will highlight your creative skills and uniqueness (idea can be social, environmental, IT technology, medical field related, etc. These ideas can be real or hypothetical). You must create a 3 min presentation showcasing your idea, and highlighting what makes it unique. We have around $1000 in prizes to be won. All the participants are eligible for a free UMBC logo Mask**.  Also, the First 10 participants will get a chance to win UMBC merchandise T-shirts. **

You can sign up using this link **REGISTRATION CLOSES 4/2**: - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflCpzrV62ywL_nv6PUKAarCgA3DrMfaUSFvoPsq1x2YT7PfA/viewform

 You can view the original post on our event page here:

https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gsa/events/93205

We welcome all department's graduate students to participate and celebrate Graduate week with us on the event day, i.e.,  9th April 2021.

For any queries, contact Sulabh Sharma (+14438504311, Sulabhs1@umbc.edu), Jhansi Sankaramaddi(+14109006743, jhansis1@umbc.edu)