CHESS hosts 19th annual Interdisciplinary Network for Group Researchers

College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences faculty hosted the 19th annual Interdisciplinary Network for Group Researchers conference July 18-20, at the UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center.

INGRoup brings together researchers from all over the world and from diverse disciplines, including psychology, communication studies, management, sociology, medicine, education and information sciences.

Krista Engemann ’17 M.A., ’22 Ph.D. and Cliff Scott, professor of communication studies, won best paper at the conference for “In Pursuit of the “Magic Second: An Action-Implicative Examination of Talk in Pit Crews’ Post-Competition Debriefs.”

Keynote speakers included renowned McGrath scholars Amy Edmonson, Ph.D. from Harvard University and Scott Tannenbaum, Ph.D. professor emeritus from SUNY Albany, who is also the founder of the Group for Organizational Effectiveness.