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
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Teaching
Clinic
Research…with masters, undergrads
Salon
Service
• PhD 2010, speech perception – AE on Mandarin
Then…1980 thru 1984
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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…
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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
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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?
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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!
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Bob Herbert
Winifred Strange
Lab mates
Students
Funders (past and future!) including FDG
Greet Van Belle, Kim Rapoza, Monique Caubere
You for coming
Onwards…