2013-14 Graduate Research and travel grant recipients
PSE Announces its the 2013-14 Cohort of Graduate Student Travel and Research Grant Recipients
Thanks to a generous grant from the Dean of the UMD Graduate School, the PSE began a Graduate Student Travel and Research Grant program in 2013. Grants will be offered yearly. We are happy to announce our first cohort! Recipients will present their work in the Workshop on Society and the Environment during the 2013-14 academic year. Their work has been featured on our blog.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Dean of the UMD Graduate School, the PSE began a Graduate Student Travel and Research Grant program in 2013. Grants will be offered yearly. We are happy to announce our first cohort! Recipients will present their work in the Workshop on Society and the Environment during the 2013-14 academic year. Their work has been featured on our blog.
Understanding Volunteer Stewardship & Mobilization at an Urban Farm
Anya Galli is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on environmental stewardship organizations and the connections between volunteer stewardship and civic engagement. Anya will use the PSE grant to survey volunteers participating in urban farming and community gardening in the Washington, DC metro area. Modeled on the Volunteer Stewardship Study (Fisher et al. 2010, http://cse.umd.edu/pdf/Digging_Together_White_Paper.pdf), this survey will yield important knowledge about the mechanisms and networks that lead to volunteer mobilization, the links between community gardening and broader civic participation, and the connection of urban farms to their surrounding communities. Further, this project will explore how the organizational and political affiliations of urban farms influence volunteer participation.
Fostering Socio-Ecological Resilience on the Deal Island Peninsula
Katherine Johnson is a doctoral student in Environmental Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is engaged in a collaborative science project on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to build socio-ecological resilience in the face of climate change. This unique project seeks to produce stronger ties within and without Deal Island Communities and engage a variety of stakeholders through the collaborative learning process. Funds will be used to discuss the findings of this research at the Society for Applied Anthropology's Annual Meeting.
Strategic Multilevel Governance: Water Resources Management in Vietnam
Jennifer Wallace, a doctoral student in the Department of Government and Politics, is researching participation in the governance of water resources in the Mekong River delta. She will use the PSE grant to travel to Vientiane, Laos, in order to interview officials in the Mekong River Commission, the regional organization responsible for managing the river, on the the participation of local stakeholders in their projects. She is currently on a Fulbright fellowship in Long Xuyen, Vietnam where she is gaining the perspective of downstream stakeholders on national and regional water policy.