Mentor Areas
My research focuses on aggression and bullying, as well as the design and assessment of school-based interventions related to reducing bullying and aggression and improving children’s social and emotional skills. I work on the design and evaluation of interventions aimed at reducing aggression and bullying for urban elementary school youth through curricula for students as well as programming focused on helping teachers' bullying detection and response using an innovative, transportable training simulator combined with an evidence-based teacher-coaching model. These programs are part of the Center for Violence Prevention at CHOP.
Description:
My research focuses on improving children’s social and emotional skills and reducing aggression and bullying, as well as the design and assessment of school-based interventions to improve social behaviors of school-aged children. Projects can include school-based research tasks (if during the school year), selecting a related topic of interest and exploring the literature to create research questions, analyzing data to support research queries, and presenting findings.
Preferred Qualifications
Ability to do perform literature reviews and/or basic data analysis.
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. https://policylab.chop.edu/people/tracy-evian-waasdorp
Details:
Preferred Student Year
Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
No
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
No
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.