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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
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Adventures in Research…or How I Went from Chi Squareto 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 • 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
State of the Art 1983
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
Thanks! • Bob Herbert • Winifred Strange • Lab mates • Students • Funders (past and future!) including FDG • Greet Van Belle, Kim Rapoza, Monique Caubere • You for coming Onwards…