The Emerging Investigators series continues this semester with a focus on moving research forward in the current funding landscape. This first lunch features a panel of social and behavioral science faculty who have been impressively effective at conducting impactful research with limited resources. Will Barley (communication), Liza Berdychevsky (recreation, sport & tourism), and Chadly Stern (psychology) will share practical strategies for making the most of very little. The series connects emerging investigators with experienced researchers and peers in the first five to seven years of their careers across campus.
Make the Most of Limited Funding
Join fellow emerging investigators for a candid conversation on advancing research in today’s funding landscape. Learn practical strategies from faculty who have successfully made the most of limited resources.
Space is limited, please register early to reserve your spot.
Monday, February 2 | 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Room 3100 | NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark St.
Building Your Research Program | Panelist Profiles
Will Barley — Associate Professor, Communication
Barley’s research explores the processes enabling individuals from different disciplines to work together to achieve goals they would be unable to achieve alone. In modern organizations, it is impossible to fully understand these processes without recognizing the role that technologies play in the production and communication of meaning. To that end, Barley’s work also focuses on how individuals in organizations design and use technologies to collaborate across knowledge boundaries. His work draws on the theoretical traditions of symbolic interactionism, social constructivism, and practice perspectives from communication studies, organization studies, and science and technology studies.
Liza Berdychevsky — Associate Professor, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
Berdychevsky’s work revolves at the nexus of health and wellbeing in leisure and tourism contexts, adopting a gender-sensitive and a life span-grounded approach. She focuses on risky behaviors (e.g., sexual risk taking, violence, and delinquent practices) and sexual leisure and positive sexuality across the life span and among vulnerable populations (e.g., older adults because of the ageist stereotypes portraying them as asexual, transgender people, high-risk young travelers, and people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic). She implements a mix of creative and cutting-edge methodologies in her research, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs.
Chadly Stern — Associate Professor, Psychology
Sterns’s research broadly examines how belief systems and motivations guide the way that people perceive and interact with the world.