The Role-Taking Project (RTP) is an ongoing initiative for the systematic study of role-taking, or symbolically placing the self in another’s position. Supported by an ANU Futures Scheme grant and led by Dr. Jenny Davis (ANU Sociology) and Dr. Tony Love (University of Kentucky Sociology), a core element of the RTP is growth through collaboration with emergent scholars via yearly fellowships. This panel features the RTP’s inaugural Fellows who will share their research and seek feedback on their projects. Phoenicia Fares (UC Riverside) will talk about role-taking in face-to-face and screen mediated interaction; Christianne Corbett (Stanford) will addresses role-taking and gender in engineering; Dr. Anne Groggel (Indiana University/North Central College) will present on role-taking and “burnout” among social work professionals; and Paige Miller (University of Maryland) swill discuss how role-taking figures into the practices of internet trolls. This panel highlights the expansive relevance of role-taking research and invites the ANU community into conversation with our international research team.