One-on-One Consultations

The 1-on-1 consultations provide an opportunity for you to meet with someone to discuss your research, whether in terms of developing the research question, theoretical framing, research design, or what have you. We have four instructors available for 1-on-1s. Click on their names to view their personal websites. If there are any questions, please email Zack Edens at zred222@uky.edu.

Ajay's sessions take place in the evenings at the Starbucks at the corner of Virginia Ave and S. Broadway. These session last 30 minutes each. Jeff, Joe, and Scott's sessions run during the daytime in the workshop building (BioPharm) and last for 45 minutes each, starting on the hour.

Management-Oriented

Joe Labianca. Gatton Chair in Management, University of Kentucky; Director, Executive MBA Program; Director, Don & Cathy Jacobs Executive Education Center. Joe mainly conducts intra-organizational network research combining organizational behavior topics and network perspectives. His main research stream focuses on understanding interpersonal conflict from a social network perspective. This involves understanding how dyads in conflict within an organization are affected by third parties and the broader social structure. Joe also does research on groups' social networks, organization design from a network perspective, power and politics, as well as on how individuals' cognitions about organizational change and justice are affected by their network ties. Joe's research has appeared in such outlets as Science, the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Organization Science, the Journal of World Business, Advances in Strategic Management, Social Networks, MISQ and JMIS. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science, and is currently on the boards of Strategic Organization and Organizational Psychology Review.

Ajay Mehra. Professor of Management, University of Kentucky. Ajay's research focuses on the role of psychology in the perception and construction of social networks in the workplace. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the British Journal of Management. He is passionate about dogs and rock climbing. Important: Ajay's sessions are held at night at the Starbucks on the corner of Virginia and Broadway.

Scott Soltis. Assistant Professor of Management, University of Kentucky (starting fall 2014). Scott's primary research interests are in Human Resource Management, Organizational Culture, and Network Cognition. Scott has conducted multiple field studies as well as research based in archival data. Prior to arriving at the University of Kentucky, he was an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Missouri-St. Louis where he was also on the faculty of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology department and worked with faculty and doctoral students across the university on research in disciplines such as public policy, political science, education, and nursing. His work has been published in Human Resource Management, Organizational Psychology Review, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations and he has served as a reviewer for outlets such as Organization Science, Human Resource Management, and Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory.

Social Science in General

Jeff Johnson. Preeminent Professor of Informatics, University of Florida (starting Fall 2014). Jeff is the University Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Coastal Science and Policy at East Carolina University. He also holds adjunct positions in Anthropology, Biology and Biostatistics and is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Software Research at Carnegie Mellon University. He has consulted and published extensively in the areas of social networks, cognition and human/environmental interactions. Johnson was the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Anthropology, co-editor of the journal Human Organization, and is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Social Structure, the journal Social Networks and is the Director of the Summer Institute for Research Design in Cultural Anthropology funded by the National Science Foundation. In 2010, as a Program Manager at the Army Research Office, he developed the basic science research program in the social sciences for the Army. He is also the author of Selecting Ethno-graphic Informants, Sage, 1990 and is co-author (with Borgatti and Everett) of the book Analyzing Social Networks, Sage, 2013. Johnson was the recipient of the 1991 Praxis Award for recognition of outstanding achievement in translating anthropological knowledge into action, the Antarctic Service Medal, and received the 2014 Simmel Award where he presented the Keynote Address at the 34^th Annual Social Network Conference. He will be taking a position as a Preeminent Professor of Informatics at the University of Florida in the Fall of 2014.