{"id":2651,"date":"2019-09-25T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humans.sanford.duke.edu\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2022-06-24T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:00:24","slug":"humans-of-duke-sanford-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humans.sanford.duke.edu\/2019\/09\/25\/humans-of-duke-sanford-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Duke Sanford"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\u201cBefore<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBefore Duke, I was working for the Department of Education in NYC doing data analysis on the lowest performing schools in the city, trying to improve student outcomes and teacher success.<\/p>\n

We wanted to use large scale initiatives to mitigate negative outcomes related to the social identities of gender, race, and SES-status. I had never considered getting my PhD, but I wanted to learn more about the research designs and how to answer the questions my own questions. There is already some work underway that is using my research on masculinity\/gender norms as a means of reducing sexual assault among undergraduates at Duke. It\u2019s a Bass Connections project where I\u2019m helping to spearhead the design, testing, and implementation of interventions that (I think) are a beautiful tie between how the social identity\/norms research I do over in psych can be useful\/impactful at a policy or community level!<\/p>\n

I leverage my experience and skillset from both psych and pubpol in my role as co-president of Duke Interdisciplinary Student Innovators (DISI). DISI is student-run pro bono consulting organization that creates and trains teams of graduate students to work with nonprofits on semester-long projects. The way it works is that each semester, grad students from across Duke apply to DISI, nonprofits apply with projects to work with us, and we curate\/pair the teams of grad students based on their skills\/interests to the projects we accept based on what is being asked in the project (e.g., marketing, impact analysis, data analysis, etc.)\u201d – Adam Stanaland, Psychology & Public Policy dual PhD student #PhD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cBefore Duke, I was working for the Department of Education in NYC doing data analysis on the lowest performing schools in the city, trying to…<\/p>\n