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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Committee (SSHRC)

About Us

The mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Committee (SSHRC) is to advance social science and humanity scholarship of Drexel University through an engaging and sustainable research community. A strong research community can facilitate knowledge sharing and exchange, foster a culture of mutual support, and increase opportunities for collaboration between colleagues across disciplinary/departmental boundaries.

SSHRC scholars engage in activities that support different aspects of the research process, including writing retreats to support grant and publication writing, quarterly social events to support interdisciplinary networking, travel award scholarships to support dissemination, speaker series to spark dialogue and new research ideas, interdisciplinary meet-ups to support conversations across disciplines that lead to new collaborations, ‘how-to’ grant writing seminars to gain skills in grant submissions and participate in SIGS (special interest group) to learn new research methods in partnership with their Drexel colleagues.

Resources

Members

  • Brad Eden: Scholarly Connections, Drexel University Libraries
  • Robert Field: Kline School of Law
  • Kathleen Fisher: Doctoral Nursing Programs; College of Nursing and Health Professions
  • Elizabeth Hassrick: AJ Drexel Autism Institute
  • June He: Product Design; Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
  • Brea Heidelber: Department of Entertainment & Arts Management; Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
  • Jordan Hyatt: Department of Criminology and Justice Studies; College of Arts and Sciences
  • Alex Jenkins: Department of Communication; College of Arts and Sciences 
  • Jennifer Katz-Buonincontro: School of Education
  • Hyunmin (Min) Lee: Department of Communication; College of Arts and Sciences
  • Flavia Padovani: Department of English & Philosophy
  • Shadi Rezapour: Informatics, College of Computing & Informatics
  • Kris Unsworth: Department of Criminology and Justice Studies; College of Arts and Sciences
  • Asta Zelenkauskaite: Department of Communication; College of Arts and Sciences

SSHRC Talks and Trainings

  1. Computational Social Sciences

    Disinfodemic: The Pandemic and Disinformation - Talk By Kathleen Carley 
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    The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning - Talk by Brent Middelstadt
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    Violence, the Brain and the Question of Social Science and Justice - Talk by Oliver Rollins
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    Pitfalls of Using Big Data in Social Science Research - Talk by Asta Zelenkauskaite
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    Partnering with Voiceless Communities - Talk by Cath Conn
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  2. Training

    'How to' Win Foundation and Business Funding
    View Meeting Slides [PDF]

    How to' Use Evidence and Writing from Data
    Facilitated by the University Writing Program
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    'How to' Write - Cohesion and Coherence
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    'How to' Qualitative Research Panel
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    'How to' Use the Philadelphia Federal Statistical Research Data Center
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    'How to' Use R-programming to conduct social network analysis - Hosted by Eric Brewe

    Workshop 1
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    Workshop 2
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    Workshop 3
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SSHRC Annual Travel Award (2023 Winners)

Congratulations to the 2023 SSHRC Travel Award Winners! Many thanks to Drexel’s Office of Research and Innovation for providing the funding for these travel awards and Jordan Hyatt, SSHRC Committee Member, for championing this year’s SSHRC Travel Awards for social science scholars at Drexel. 

Joke Bradt, PhD

Professor, College of Nursing and Health Professions
Title: Interactive Music Therapy for Chronic Pain Management in People with
Advanced Cancer
Conference: World Congress of Music Therapy
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Mary Ebeling, PhD

Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Title: Touching is Believing: Artificial Intelligence, Surgical Embodiment and Feeling
Conference: STS Italia Conference 2023
Location: Bologna, Italy

Kathleen Fisher, PhD

Professor, College of Nursing and Health Professions
Title: Health Equity and Inclusion for all? Advocacy for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disability
Conference: Developmental Disability Nurses Association
Location: New Orleans, LA

Pamela Geller, PhD

Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Title: Leveraging a User-centered Approach to Develop Momma Connect, a Mobile Health Therapy Application for Mothers with Postpartum Depression and their Infants
Conference: National Prenatal Conference
Location: Chapel Hill, NC

Shannon Jacobsen, PhD

Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Title: The National Education Association Community Schools Institute: Equity and innovation in United States schools
Conference: EuroCrim 2023
Location: Florence, Italy

Kristy Kelly, PhD

Associate Clinical Professor, School of Education
Title: Feminist Frontiers: Women, Leadership and Education Transformation
Conference: UN Commission on the Status of Women
Location: NYC

Kathleen Provinzano, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Education
Title: Designing and Measuring Virtual Reality-Based Learning for Nursing Students to Stimulate Empathy, Promote Health Equity, and Mitigate Disparities
Conference: American Educational Research Association
Location: Chicago, Il

Holly Sawyer, PhD

Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Nursing and Health Professions
Title: Culturally Inclusive Clinical Supervision
Conference: 2023 Bridging the Gap Symposium
Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, EdD

Associate Clinical Professor, School of Education
Title: Go Forth and Spread the Gospel of the Cookie Monster: An Urban ECE SEL Partnership/Shared Values and Differing Language: Building a New Early Childhood Partnership With Sesame.
Conference: American Educational Research Association
Location: Chicago, Il

Asta Zelenkauskaite, PhD

Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Title: Social literacy, information literacy, and media literacy: A trifecta to empower audiences against disinformation
Conference: IAMCR conference
Location: Lyon