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What is IRSP?
Humans are social animals whose lives are powerfully shaped by their relations with friends, family, teachers, co-workers, and many others. Currently, a new interdisciplinary science of relationships is emerging that draws on many intellectual traditions, uses an array of increasingly sophisticated research methods, and seeks to integrate knowledge across different levels of analysis.
In July 2005, UCLA launched a unique doctoral program to train future leaders in relationship science. With funding from the National Science Foundation, the UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program (IRSP) trains students in anthropology, education, psychology and sociology for careers as research scientists studying social relationships from a multidisciplinary perspective. We invite you to learn more about us.
Contact the IRSP Program Coordinator
irsp@ucla.edu
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What's New?
May 2008 Prof. Debra Skinner (University of North Carolina) gives a talk on The Ramifications of Genetic Diagnosis and Genetic Information for Families: An Interdisciplinary and Multi-Methods Approach
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May 2008 IRSP trainee Esther Friedman presents a paper on "Education of Children and Differential Mortality of Parents: Do Parents Benefit from Their Chldren's Attainments?" at the RC 28 International Conference on Social Stratification and Mobility in Florence, Italy (with Prof. Rob Mare)
May 2008 Prof. Ben Karney (UCLA Psychology) hosted a conference on Supporting Community Marriage: Beyond Politics and Ideology, that brought together researchers and community leaders
March 2008 Prof. Joan Silk (UCLA Anthropology) took IRSP trainees on a special tour of the Los Angeles Zoo
click here for some photos of the event
February 2008 IRSP trainee Kimberly Griffin has accepted a faculty position in the Department of Education Policy Studies at the Pennsylvania State University for fall 2008.
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Center on the Everyday Lives of Families: $3.9 Million in New Funding
The UCLA Center on the Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) has received $3.9 million to continue its landmark work that explores the changing structure of American life. Led by Professor Elinor Ochs from the Department of Anthropology, the center brings together anthropologists, linguists, education specialists, and psychologists who use ethnographic research to study how working parents and their children approach the challenges of balancing the demands of work, school, and family life.
To learn more about the Center on the Everyday Lives of Families, visit www.celf.ucla.edu.
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Featured Profile:
The FPR-UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development (CBD) fosters training and research at UCLA to explore how culture and social relations inform brain development, how the brain organizes cultural and social development, and how development gives rise to a cultural brain. At the same time, we aim to understand how the brain makes it natural to acquire, use, and create culture; how development builds on neurally mediated socio-cultural practices; how social relations are culturally informed; how culture is acquired in social interaction; and, how culture and social relations are constructed through neurally potentiated developmental processes.
Visit CBD.
We regularly feature a research center or organization dedicated to research on relationships. Email the IRSP coordinator if you would like to suggest a future profilee.
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