The Brackenridge fellowship has given me the opportunity to dedicate a summer to research something that I am passionate about. After this experience, I am walking out with a better understanding of the trouble-shooting and the patience that is needed with conducting research. Beginning the summer, my focus was to research how infants displayed gendered…
Author: Jolie Haertter
Understanding Your Audience: Communicating your research
Throughout the Brackenridge fellowship, I have been challenged to understand and communicate my research based on the audience. Overall, this is an essential skill, for the way I explain my research to someone whose a professional in the psychology field versus a colleague in a different discipline is going to be completely different. Communicating my…
Brackenridge Fellowship: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
A major component of the Brackenridge Fellowship is learning how to describe our research to individuals studying outside our field. This is meant to teach us how to cater our projects to audiences. This is a great skill to have, but it can be quite challenging to learn how to stray away from the laboratory…
Beginnings of the Brackenridge
Introduction Hello! My name is Jolie. As a junior at Pitt, I am double majoring in Psychology and Law, Criminal Justice, and Society with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. I am originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I came to Pitt in hopes of pursuing research on the development of gendered actions and preferences….