Join us for our SWAP (Sharing Work on Appalachia in Progress) presentations at the Appalachian Center or tune in virtually via Zoom. This year's SWAPs will showcase the research conducted by recipients of the 2026 James S. Brown Graduate Student Award for Research on Appalachia and the UK Appalachian Center Eller & Billings Student Research Award as well as other scholars and students sharing their research.

Link to register to join via Zoom will be available soon.

Oct. 28 SWAP Presenters:

Holden Dillman, College of Social Work: “We Are Here: National and Appalachian Accounts of Youth-to-Adulthood Mental Health and Well-Being Among Sexual and Gender Minority Emerging and Early Adults.”

Ally Moseley, UK College of Social Work: “Rainbow Roads aren't just for video games: Visibility, Belonging, and Queer Voices in Kentucky’s SAFE ROADS Debate.”

For the full schedule of SWAP presentations, go to this link.