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HIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURCas, Host of Clinically Psyched PodTune in to our conversation with Cas, the host of Clinically Psyched Pod (a podcast about the hidden curriculum of grad admissions to Clinical Psychology programs), where she talks about her interests and knowledge in Sexual Psychology! We also discuss her ongoing journey to grad school and share our own experiences and difficulties in our respective applications cycles. Shows mentioned: Succession (available on HBO), Sex Education (available on Netflix), Pop Culture Detective (YouTube channel); this came up in our post-recording chitchat and requires reader's discretion (TW: may elicit the familiar urge to burn down the patriarchy even before climate...2021-12-1351 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOUREkim & Katrina, Psychology PhD studentsKeywords: PhD experiences, productivity tipsTune in as we share how our first year of PhD program is going and went, what we have been up to, where our focuses are! We also talk about how we organize and manage our research life, finding a work-life balance, and how we establish a support systems. This episode also includes our productivity tips and other techniques that we have tried out, what worked for us and what didn't. If you are curious about our PhD lives, or anywhere between thinking of applying to PhD programs and well underway into...2021-11-1139 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURAriane Delgado Sanchez, Psychology PhD studentKeywords: Chronic pain, fibromyalgia, traumatic life experiences, career pathTune in for our conversation with Ariane, a PhD student at the University of Manchester whose project aims to develop diagnostic tool for chronic pain treatment in clinical settings using Bayesian models. We talk about her career trajectory and her experience in her PhD so far, as well as what it means to take a hollistic approach to understanding the human mind. Ariane completed her Master's degree in Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews, where she studies stress and decision-making, and transitioned into pain research. Pain can...2021-07-1543 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURDr. Lucina Uddin, NeuroscientistKeywords: Autism, consciousness, connectivity, development, cognitionTune in to an episode with Dr. Lucina Uddin, head of the Brain Connectivity and Cognition Lab situated at the University of Miami, where we learn about her career trajectory and thoughts on autism and cognitive flexibility. Taken from her lab website, they are broadly focused on investigating the relationship between brain connectivity and cognition in typical and atypical development. Within a cognitive neuroscience framework, their research combines functional connectivity analyses of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data and structural connectivity analyses of diffusion-weighted imaging data to examine the organization of l...2021-06-1950 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURTasfia Jahangir, Psychology & Public Health ResearcherKeywords: race, ethicity, mental health services, interventionTune in to an episode with Tasfia, a graduate student at Emory University and research coordinator at Harvard University. We dive into her undergraduate Honors Thesis on cultural tailoring in mental health services specific to race and ethnicity, where she engages in qualitative research and develops her own codebook. She also discusses her role as a Research Coordinator and her future research aspirations. Research areas: Clinical Career stage: Research assistant & graduate student Affiliation: Emory University2021-04-2439 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURDr. Simone Schnall, Experimental Social PsychologistKeywords: career, work-life balance, decision fatigue Tune in to our chat with Simone, where she tells us about her career path, thoughts on work-life balance, and offers candid advice to graduate students on the importance of finding focus. Simone is an Experimental Social Psychologist at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a fellow at Jesus College. In this episode, we also discuss one of her recent papers, Quantifying the Cost of Decision Fatigue: Supoptimal Risk Decisions in Finance, with Dr. Tobias Baer on decision fatigue applied to the finance sector, specifically how credit loan officers d...2021-04-1954 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURAradhana Srinagesh, Clinical Psych PhD StudentKeywords: career path, addictionTune in for a conversation with Ara, an incoming Clinical Psych PhD student at the University of Rhode Island this fall, where she talks about her career path to date and experience with addiction research. We also discuss the future of research in Clinical Psych using virtual reality and psychedelics. Ara is also a co-founder of Psychin' Out, a Slack resource for grad applicants. Research area: Clinical Career stage: PhD student Affiliation: University of Rhode Island Follow Ara on Twitter @arasrinagesh2021-03-2159 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOUREmily Turner, Co-Founder of Psychin'OutKeywords: career path, grad apps, programming strugglesThinking of grad school? Join us for a special episode (rant) with Emily Turner for a candid talk of the good, the bad, and the ugly on her grad school quest without a psych background, where we also discuss the barriers in academia as grassroots researchers! Resources mentioned: Psychin'Out (Twitter, Slack), OpenAcademics, "Why Women Can't Program" (article; well, we can and we do), more info on the gender gap in STEM, and a paper that looked at female 6-12th graders' confidence in math and science. Finally, our personal recommendation...2021-03-1451 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURHuiyeon Eim, Philosophy StudentKeywords: sex work, Southeast Asia, colonialismTune in to our conversation about Huiyeon's recent project on colonialism and sex work in Southeast Asia during the 20th century! Huiyeon is a Philosophy and Data Science student at the University of Southern California. If you are interested, the book Huiyeon recommended is Dealing In Desire. To see a list of other sources, here is a shareable doc. Research area: Philosophy Researcher Status: Undergraduate Student Affiliation: University of Southern California2021-02-2548 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURCharlie B., Data Analyst with a Psychology BackgroundKeywords: body dysphoria, gender, transgender research, data analysisListen to our candid conversation with Charlie about his unique psych-to-data career path, tips on and experiences of doing data analysis in research, and an in-depth discussion on his thesis, "Exploring Differences in Dysphoria Between Transgender Men and Transgender Women". Tune in for some nerdy stats talk and hot takes on the research etiquette of working with the trans community. Research area: Social, Transgender Career stage: data analyst 2021-01-0250 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURDr. Darby Saxbe, Clinical PsychologistKeywords: stress, allostatic load, parenthoodListen to our discussion with Darby about her research career path, allostatic load and stress, and parenthood. Darby is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, where she heads the Neuroendocrinology of Social Ties Lab. A former English major, she now specializes in social relationships, stress and parenthood. Her ongoing NSF-funded neuroimaging study, HATCH, follows couples in transition to parenthood from the prenatal to postpartum stages. PS. This was our 1st interview and it was recorded over the phone, so the audio quality isn't great - apologies! Research areas...2020-12-2724 minHIGH IMPACT COFFEE HOURJaclyn Siegel, Feminist Social PsychologistKeywords: feminism, qualitative method, gender, body imageListen to our discussion with Jaclyn about being an early-career researcher, academia, the Feminist methodology, gender binary (not), media and body image. Jaclyn works at the Stigma, Objectification, Bodies, and Resistance Lab directed by Dr. Rachel Calogero. She is a doctoral fellow at Western University and specializes in Feminist Psychology using qualitative methods. Research areas: Social, Feminist Career stage: Postdoctoral Researcher Affiliation: Previously at Western University, now at San Diego Stage University Follow Jaclyn on Twitter @jacasiegel!2020-12-2758 min