Centers & Work Groups

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.