Graduate Student/Post-Doc Committee Column
Erica Baranski and Kai Hortsmann
The University of Arizona; Humboldt University
Greetings ARP Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Members:
We'd first like to introduce our new representative, Erica Baranski!
I am excited to join the ARP executive board as your post doc representative! Thank you for voting for me. I am currently a postdoc researcher in the Naturalistic Observation of Social Interaction Laboratory and at the Institute for Place, Well-being and Performance at the University of Arizona. I recently received my Ph.D. in the International Situations Project Lab at the University of California, Riverside under the wonderful guidance of David Funder. I am currently interested in the ways in which physiology (measured by wearable, mobile sensors) predicts important life outcomes, as wells as the volitional personality change process within the US and across multiple countries. Over the last five years, I have immersed myself in the open science conversation and have focused on gaining experience in practicing and training others in how to make science open and sharable. I am a huge advocate in promoting graduate students and postdocs' roles in improving psychological science. As the postdoc rep for ARP I hope to help organize conference activities meant to help educate emerging researchers and help build a network of emerging scholars who are committed to improving the field and themselves as researchers.
The next ARP conference is already just around the corner, and we look forward to seeing you there! Similar to previous years, we have organized a mentor lunch during this year's ARP. The mentoring lunch will take place on Saturday, June 28th. The idea of a mentoring lunch is to bring together one or two early career researchers (Ph.D. students or early post-docs) with more experienced members of ARP. During registration for ARP, it is possible to indicate if one wants to be a mentor or a mentee. We will then send out a survey and ask mentees for their preferred mentors as well as the topics they would like to talk about. Before the mentoring lunch, we will provide mentors with their students' interests. ARP will provide a list of possible restaurants that are suitable. Even if you have already registered but not indicated that you would like to become a mentor or participate as a mentee, you can still send an e-mail to Kai Horstmann (horstmak@hu-berlin.de) and indicate your interest (until June 7th). By matching individual mentees to their preferred mentors, we hope to provide the best experience for both mentors and mentees.
Also, we have also established a needs-based travel stipend to support undergraduate and graduate student travel to this year's conference in Grand Rapids. These stipends are meant to help offset the costs of attending the conference for those with high financial need. We are making 5 stipends of varying amounts based on applicant's (1) accessibility to other funding opportunities, (2) anticipated cost to attend, and other financial obligations. We are in the process of reviewing the applications and will notify recipients in the coming weeks.
Kai Horstmann (horstmak@hu-berlin.de) & Erica Baranski (ericanbaranski@email.arizona.edu)