INTERDISCIPLINARY GROUPS 

• Grant Writing Group

  The Grant Writing Group is a virtual writing group for Social Sciences graduate students from all departents. We meet on Zoom and work on our respective grant applications, with time for quiet writing and feedback. This is a great space to learn about new grant opportunities, and discuss application strategies with fellow applicants. The group is led by Sarah, the Grant Writing Coordinator in the School of Social Sciences. 

  Meeting times: Wednesdays 9:00am-10:00am PST (Zoom)

  Feel free to email Sarah for the Zoom link at burkes1@uci.edu!

• Académiques Latinx

  This is a peer-mentoring support network for Latinx/Latine graduate students from humanities, arts, and Chicanx/Latinx studies who want to advance their academic writing goals in a community of peers. This group is also open to grad students from other humanistic fields (ei. social sciences, education) who feel they may benefit from this peer-support group. We welcome non-Latinx students whose research and work is strongly tied to the Latinx, Latin American and broader Spanish speaking world, or anyone who simply feels they would benefit from this writing community regardless of research agenda or identity.

  This is a multilingual space that uses Spanish, English and Spanglish interchangeably. We hold space for each other through our structured quiet writing time, and we keep each other accountable through our daily writing log and weekly check-ins. We meet over zoom and at local coffee shops to write in community. You are welcome to join all or part of our structured writing time.

  Please contact Jeanie Toscano at jrtoscan@uci.edu or Fernanda Hernandez at mfherna6@uci.edu for the zoom link or if you have any questions. 

  Meetings Times: 

  Wednesdays: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Local Coffee Shop)

  Thursdays: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Zoom)

  Group Leaders:

  Jeanie Toscano (jrtoscan@uci.edu) 

  Fernanda Hernandez (mfherna6@uci.edu)

   

   

• Morning and International Quiet Writing Time 

  Welcoming all those who need an incentive to get out of bed a bit earlier, or working from other parts of the world and need a workshop that works with you. We are a welcoming, inclusive group of individuals trying to survive through graduate school, recognizing how difficult it is to do so without a strong support of our peers. We devote time to working together, having a support mechanism through check-ins and writing logs, providing feedback, and thinking together about obstacles in grad school and writing. Please contact me at boyunk@uci.edu if you would like to join.

  

• Social Sciences and Humanities Writing Group

  This is an interdisciplinary and multi-methods writing group. Members of this group conduct both qualitative and quantitative research in the social sciences and humanities. What unites us all is our desire for a supportive space in the writing process! Each meeting begins with discussions and planning on writing objectives, followed by silent writing time using the pomodoro method. Group members learn about different tools to improve writing practices and enhance accountability. This is also a space to provide each other with feedback on fellowship applications and papers in progress for publication. This group meets on Wednesdays from 4-6 PM. Contact Caroline Martinez (caroligm@uci.edu) for more information.

  

 

COGNITIVE SCIENCES GROUPS (SOC SCI)

• Group Theory

  We are Group Theory, a Cascade Mentoring group within the Cognitive Sciences Department at UC Irvine. We are not some obtuse branch of mathematics, but rather a rag-tag group of cognitive science doctoral students, helping one-another to successfully meander and bushwhack our way through our PhDs. This is the second quarter of our existence, and our group aim is to provide a supportive environment in which to help one another grow, collaborate, work together, and most importantly, to have a good time! Right now we meet weekly on Fridays from 3-5, though this day and time may change in the future. We use this time to check in, cover some skills, and have quiet work time together. Additionally, we meet Mondays from 3-6, when we engage in quiet work time together, and generally chat each other up.

  We are accepting new members, so free to email the Cascade Group Mentor, Andrew Hansen, at aghansen@uci.edu.

  "They must be stopped!" - Time Magazine

  "Who do they think they are?" - Southern Living

  

   

• Quantitative Quality

  Our group consists of Cog Sci students, ranging from 1st years to 5th years. Our members hail from a multitude of labs, so we have a wide range of research interests including social reasoning, category learning, developmental psychology, sequential decision making, wisdom of the crowd, and spatial navigation. We are focused primarily on quiet coworking, writing time, and checking in. We also use the feedback forum and reference material from Barbara's book on planning and organizing research as needed.

  Meeting Times: Tuesday/Thursday from 3:30-5:00pm and on Friday from 11:00-1:00pm.

  For more information, contact Sharanya Bashyam (sbashyam@uci.edu, Quantitative Quality), Lauren Montgomery (lmontgo1@uci.edu, Quantitative Quality), and Tiffany Raber (traber@uci.edu, Quantitative Quality).

  

ENGLISH GROUPS (HUMANITIES)

• Mundanities of Humanities 

  Mundanities of Humanity is a writing group focusing on graduate well-being, resource sharing, as well as community building based in the English department. Our members try to provide support for the mundane, including the everyday plights of graduate students, those who have moved without support systems, those who feel isolated and confused in the department etc. We strongly believe that graduate work is only possible when the person is taken care of, and we strive to provide that balance. Everyone is welcome, and we meet twice a week via Zoom to study together, with a focus on community building, quiet writing time, and feedback for materials. Please contact Jung Soo Lee at jungsl6@uci.edu to join or for any questions

  We meet on Tues/Thurs from 12-2 on Zoom. 

  

   

 

HISTORY GROUPS (HUMANITIES)

• History Cascading Mentorship Writing Group (HCMWG)

  Hi! We are HCMWG – history PhD students deeply interested in advancing our doctoral research and writing skills in order to graduate on time! Our areas of interest include colonial and modern India, Latin America, and LGBT culture in 1980s Orange County, CA. Our dissertations include economics and theory, as well as, race, class, gender, and sexuality studies. 
   
  At the moment, we meet every Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 pm to 10 pm Pacific time via Zoom. We currently have active members and we want to include you as well! Our main goals for every week are quiet writing time and feedback forum. We also have a general discussion on topics that affect historians in the making. However, most of our meetings are dedicated to writing and reviewing each other’s work! If you are interested in getting historical writing done, look no further and come join us!
   
  Group Leader: Chris Chacon
  Group Leader Email: clchacon@uci.edu

  

   

 

LANGUAGE SCIENCES GROUPS (SOC SCI)

• Language Science Huddle
  

  Hi :) We are the langsci huddle, a group of eight students doing language science-related research (everything from computational modeling of syntax acquisition, to corpus studies of cross-linguistic adjective use, to experiments on interpretations in context, and lots more). We meet in person twice a week. Our goals are to provide everyday writing and social support to each other in order to boost each other’s well-being, combat graduate student isolation, write more and write better.
   
  Group leader: Noa Attali (nattali@uci.edu)

 

POLITICAL SCIENCE GROUPS (SOC SCI)

 

 

 

 

 

SOCIOLOGY GROUPS (SOC SCI)