The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI) is UC Berkeley's hub for interdisciplinary social justice research. Since 1976, the Institute has been fostering qualitative and quantitative interdisciplinary research on the issues central to social stratification and inequality while training and supporting new generations of social change scholars.
This summer, 12 students from around the U.S. are in a six-week Qualitative Research Methods Workshop. Led by Dr. Pablo Gonzalez, the workshop features many ISSI affiliates as guest speakers, including our alum Jocyl Sacramento, who volunteered to teach computer-assisted qualitative data analysis. Six of the students are UC Berkeley CREEO-HBCU fellows who are in research apprenticeships with ISSI faculty affiliates Travis Bristol and Tolani Britton.
