Mission

The collaborative  (Institute)  for Interdisciplinary Research in Education and Human Development (IIREHD), housed in the Research Office, assembles the significant strengths of faculty members across colleges and disciplines at the University of Georgia in the areas of education and human development in order to provide professional development growth opportunities for existing faculty, to prepare future researchers to engage in interdisciplinary research, to attract leading-edge research-devers to join the UGA faculty, and to increase the opportunities for receiving extramural funding. The purpose of the Institute is to encourage the development of interdisciplinary teams of researchers in education and human development and to help them obtain external funding for their research.

Goals of the Institute

The Institute is designed to stimulate the formation of and support for interdisciplinary efforts of researchers within the COE. These groups may take the form of small teams of researchers, larger study groups or even research & development centers or labs.  The objective is to bring together these interdisciplinary teams in order that the COE can become proactive in influencing research-dev funding initiatives as well as in increasing the success of COE researchers at obtaining external funding for their research.

• The Institute focuses on development and support of the infrastructure needed for large-scale interdisciplinary research groups in the COE.
• The Institute provides mentoring for developing scholars for the purpose of helping them secure external funding for their interdisciplinary research.