adventures in research… or how i went from chi square to here
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Adventures in Research… or How I Went from Chi Square to Here. Shari Salzhauer Berkowitz, PhD Mercy College Adjunct Dinner April 22, 2014. Now…. Full-time faculty member Communication Disorders School of Health and Natural Sciences Teaching Clinic Research…with masters, undergrads Salon - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Adventures in Research…or How I Went from Chi Square
to HereShari Salzhauer Berkowitz, PhDMercy College Adjunct Dinner
April 22, 2014
Now…
• Full-time faculty member• Communication Disorders• School of Health and Natural Sciences– Teaching– Clinic– Research…with masters, undergrads– Salon– Service
• PhD 2010, speech perception – AE on Mandarin
Then…1980 thru 1984
• SUNY Binghamton, NY• Math• Linguistics• Robert K. Herbert• Collected compliment responses–Male/female compliment recipients– Different response patterns
• Performed Chi square analysis
Still the Same
Tools change, principles remain:• Add to knowledge base• Create new connections• Contribute to your field– Arts– Education– Sciences– Social sciences
Mercy offers adjunct faculty…
• SPSS statistical package• Redcap survey software• Librarians – by school, tech, research• Research Salon for advice and help– Monthly meetings– Adjuncts welcome– IRB info – Design – Stats
Mercy POV
• Adjunct faculty members as valuable players• Buddy with full-time faculty member(s)• Bring the outside world to campus• Many funders looking for – Translational– Theory to practice– Interdisciplinary
• Adjuncts can be the real world piece that make a larger grant work
Funding Highlights (Nuts & Bolts)• You will get paid on a grant as a consultant • Major federal funding sources:– National Endowment for the Humanities– National Endowment for the Arts– Department of Education
• Hispanic-Serving Institution– National Science Foundation– National Institutes of Health
• Private foundations• Your community of scholars• Faculty Development Grants…stay tuned…
Undergraduate Research Assistants
After taking NIH training if human subjects…• Literature Reviews• Run subjects in experiments• Test equipment• Collect pilot data• Make phone calls to find participants• Write IRB documents with a model• Honors students
Why bother?
• Thrill of a fresh data set/ evidence/ sources• Turning a student on to that addiction• Collaborative relationship• Creating something new – Piece of art – Evidence– New connections between ideas
• It could lead…anywhere…• Unexpected benefits…unlikely paths
My current work, Student-driven
Undergrads:– Eye tracker– Caffeine use and the voice– Peruvian parents’ beliefs about cleft lip and palate
Graduate students:– Tongue strength in children– GREs as a predictor of success in SLP programs– Late learners of English SLP skills for clinic
So what happened after 1984?
• Robert K. Herbert (1990). Sex-based differences in compliment behavior.
Language in Society, 19, pp 201-224. • Cited by 263 in total– 6 of which are in 2014
• No mention of me!• How many unsung research assistants?• Corpus of over 1000 Binghamton compliments
and almost 500 South African compliments