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The idea of "the power of a good teacher" is also something that resonates with me and has come up in my LiA - learning from my peers and supervisor has been really inspiring to me as well! Your LiA seems super powerful and I am excited to learn more about your final weeks!
Wow! Sadako Peace Day sounds like a really empowering and important event!
It's so cool you were able to find such an inspiring mentor in Doctor Hughes.
Wow your LiA seems super enriching and unique! I am pretty shocked to learn there are multiple species of kale...
It's so cool that you get an intersection between your work on your LiA and your academics at Columbia!
I feel I experienced similar challenges with teaching! Teaching grammar in English, as a language I have always spoken feels strange and difficult.
Wow Kianna that sounds like a super enriching experience - I love that you were able to build off of your work with the Justice Lab last year!
I am currently facing the challenge of analyzing the data for one of the behavioral tasks in my experiment. I am using my problem-solving skills to think outside of the box with my code and how to accurately quantify the effects I visually see. My initial focus in this project was to quantify exploratory movement but I am actually focusing on memory, which I am especially intrigued by considering there are few studies that test ELS and social memory. Learning the analysis side of things has been a grueling yet rewarding process as well!
The two postdoc mentors at my lab have been particularly useful in helping me understand the purpose of the behavioral tasks and in the troubleshooting of my analysis. SCOPUS has also been beneficial in my exploration of the literature available for these social memory tasks. I will definitely continue to use SCOPUS as I start working on the SLR task, short for spontaneous location recognition task.
Hi Tara! Your research seems so interesting and I'm excited to see where it goes! I also have found my mentors at the lab to be very helpful in guiding me and the project.
In reviewing transcripts of previous interviews conducted by my Justice Lab colleagues, I noticed they included interviewees from the more conservative southern part of the United States as well as interviewees from more democratic states. I was surprised to see that even individuals with conservative ideals and closer ties to southern culture in which criminal law standards are generally significantly stricter, talked about the issues they noticed in the criminal justice system through their own work. Specifically, wanting to try more restorative methods of justice rather than punitive or wanting to put a stop against harsher punishments such as the death penalty. Before studying these interviews, I held assumptions about law enforcement and lawyers working in specific environments that they would have a harder time changing their opinions and going against the ideology propagated by their surroundings.
Through the Justice Lab, I was able to attend conferences on Criminal Justice and also have the opportunity to talk to previously incarcerated individuals to learn about their personal experience with the justice system. I found these resources particularly useful because it enabled us to gather quantitative data from real people needed to truly understand the shortcomings of the system.