Centers & Work Groups

CENTERS

Center for Family Research

Our research is guided by a concern for the difficulties faced by African American families living in the rural South.

Center on Biological Embedding of Social Events and Relationships

The Center on Biological Embedding of Social Events and Relationships brings together behavioral and biological scientists interested in understanding the intersections of genetic and environmental contributions to health, health behavior, and interpersonal outcomes.

Center for Integrative Conservation Research

The Center for Integrative Conservation Research will play a leading role in advancing the frontier of sustainability science through its unique ability to bring together researchers from different disciplines, practitioners, and policy makers.

Center for Research on Behavioral Health and Human Services Delivery

The Center for Research on Behavioral Health and Human Services Delivery is a broad umbrella for health services research as well as a wide range of studies touching upon a multitude of human health and social policy issues.

Scientists Engaged in Education Research

The SEER Center includes faculty, postdocs, and graduate students across the University of Georgia who perform research in collegiate STEM education.

WORKGROUPS

Cognition and Neuroscience Work Group

The Cognition and Neuroscience Group is an interdisciplinary group that studies behavior and/or cognition from a neural systems perspective.

Computational Social Science

The Computational Social Science Work Group provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration among faculty and graduate students interested in formal and analytic approaches to modeling social processes and phenomena.

Psychological Assessment Work Group (PAW)

The Psychological Assessment Workgroup (PAW) is designed to facilitate interdisciplinary work in areas of psychological assessment.

Relationship Science

The Relationship Science Workgroup convenes scholars interested in relationship science (broadly construed to include romantic relationships, family relationships, workplace relationships and others).

Stress, Trauma, Adversity & Resilience

The Stress, Trauma, Adversity & Resilience (STAR) work group seeks to facilitate scientific opportunities for interdisciplinary discourse, interactions, and collaboration among researchers interested in studying the sequelae of adverse childhood experiences, including child abuse and neglect, trauma, poverty, and socioeconomic stress.

Violence

The Violence Group provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary interaction in response to research opportunities and research funding in the interrelated areas of intimate partner violence, workplace violence, school violence, bullying, sexual exploitation, sexual violence, and family violence.