It is hard to believe that this summer research has come to an end! Although I have been a part of the Gray lab for a little over two years now, this summer in lab gave me the unique opportunity to dive into roles and responsibilities full time enabling to learn and grow so much as a psychology student, researcher, confident career-driven woman and compassionate and sensitive human.
Beyond the above mentioned growth that the Newcomb College Institute and the entire Gray Lab team has enabled me to achieve, I also was able to really reach all of my learning goals that I set for myself at the start of the summer! I learned a lot more about applied statistical analysis from Latent Class Analysis to Bootstrapping and SPSS software usage due to weekly applied experimental article readings and discussions, shared lab resources and books, and graduate student guidance. I definitely still have so
- I hope to broaden my understanding of the statistical analyses with applied, experimental psychology and SPSS software, and then use that knowledge to help think critically of how best to run and analyze our data.
- I hope to strengthen my participant recruitment skills and the administrative side of clinical psychology research, without which the lab would not be able to continue.
- I hope to develop and improve my scientific writing skills by both reading more of the current literature, papers and posters of the graduate students, and writing myself.
- I hope to further my PSRA coding reliability and complete a systematic review of how past studies have used such data to shape the future direction of our analyses.
- And finally, I hope to work closely with the graduate doctoral student’s, so that I can learn from them, and confirm that this is the future work I want to pursue.
- Discuss specific tasks and accomplishments from this summer that support the learning goals and objectives you set at the beginning of the summer.
- What is next for you? How will you build off this experience during the rest of your time at Tulane and beyond?
- Having now completed your internship, what else do you want to learn? What additional experiences do you want to take on?
- What advice would you give to a student interested in an internship at your host organization? In this industry/field?
- Have your ideals, philosophies and concepts of gender and social justice in the work place been challenged or reinforced? In what ways? What advice do you have for female-identified individuals about finding leadership in the work space.
- What have you learned about becoming a more effective problem solver/change agent/citizen?