Investigating the Social World - International Student Edition: The Process and Practice of Research

About Russell K. Schutt

Russell K. Schutt PhD is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he received the 2007 Chancellors Award for Distinguished Service and taught from 1979 to 2022. He is also a Clinical Research Scientist I at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Lecturer (part-time) in the Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School. He completed his BA MA and PhD degrees at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology of Social Control Training Program at Yale University (where he met Dan). In addition to ten editions of Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research and one of Understanding the Social World as well as coauthored versions for the fields of social work criminal justice psychology and education his other books include Homelessness Housing and Mental Illness (2011) Social Neuroscience: Brain Mind and Society (coedited 2015) and Organization in a Changing Environment (1986). He has authored and coauthored more than 65 peer reviewed journal articles as well as book chapters and research reports on homelessness mental health organizations law and teaching research methods. His currently a Dual Principal Investigator (with Matcheri Keshavan MD) in randomized comparative effectiveness trial of two socially-oriented interventions to improve community functioning among persons diagnosed with serious mental illness funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). His other recently concluded research includes co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded study of the social impact of the pandemic in Boston and co-investigator on a Veterans Health Administration-funded study of peer support.  His earlier research has been funded by the National Cancer Institute the Veterans Health Administration the National Institute of Mental Health the Fetzer Institute and state agencies. Details are available at https://blogs.umb.edu/russellkschutt/.