Research

Questions about people, behavior, systems, and possibility.

My research profile spans qualitative inquiry, program evaluation, evidence synthesis, scholarly review, and emerging questions about how AI interacts with human judgment and disability.

Current & emerging

Research in development.

Status matters. Proposed work is labeled as proposed; completed work is labeled as completed.

Proposal submitted

Disability Disclosure and Frontier AI

Proposed study: does disclosing significant physical disability cause frontier AI to narrow otherwise-capable adults’ options and ambitions?

Mixed-methods concept using paired prompts, structured ratings, interviews, a codebook, and evaluation of quality, agency, and scope.

Research concept →
Scholarly service

External dissertation review

External doctoral committee work includes reviewing conceptual coherence, methodology, evidence quality, and alignment among research questions, methods, findings, and conclusions.

Completed doctoral research

Examining the Lived Experience Mothers Have With Social Media.

PhD in General Psychology, completed 2020.

Qualitative research

The dissertation examined mothers’ lived experiences with social media, using qualitative research methods to understand meaning, experience, and themes rather than reducing the question to a single numerical measure.

Dissertation overview →

What it demonstrates

Research design, literature synthesis, qualitative methodology, interviewing/inquiry, thematic interpretation, scholarly writing, and sustained completion of a complex long-form project.

Methods & interests

Research that stays connected to real human questions.

Qualitative inquiry

Lived experience, interviews, thematic interpretation, context, and meaning.

Program evaluation

Questions of effectiveness, implementation, usability, outcomes, and what should change next.

AI & human judgment

How systems frame options, preserve or reduce agency, handle evidence, and affect decision quality.