Hi folks! Another (longer) hiatus this time — apologies! Lots has happened since the last one. As is evident from the landing page on our website here, I've moved back to the East Coast from AB and started a faculty position at StFX. I'm now just over one year in, and it's been quite a run!
We're in a great town, and I'm privileged to work with great colleagues and amazing students. I've gotten to teach a nice cross-section of students thus far: both Fall terms I've led multiple sections of Intro Psych, and the Winter terms I've been assigned to teach a third-year class on Attention and a fourth-year seminar on Cognition (see my Teaching page here).
Research has been moving along as well. It's been an adventure trying to get my lab space operational, but I've been fortunate enough to keep the wheels moving as we've been ironing out the kinks (my Publications page is here). I've taken some shots at funding to support the lab (some have hit, many have missed), and we're making things work with what we've got. We're a resourceful group, and the students have been ambitious in applying for their own awards so we've really made some great progress.
The best part of the job is the work I get to do with the students in my lab. This year, two honours students (Julia Byron and Jack Lukeman) are embarking on really cool projects. Julia is taking the lead on a collaboration with Dr. Laura Lambe and members of the IVY Lab, looking at whether eye movement patterns can predict behaviour choices in certain social situations. Jack is exploring the time course of cueing effects in the spatial cueing task, and whether/how they might change as an influence of task difficulty. Last year, Veda Haggarty completed the first ever honours thesis in ETAL, looking at the influence of relationship attachment styles on the three networks of attention. Veda presented her work at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, and I had the honour of presenting her work on her behalf at the annual meetings for the Vision Sciences Society and the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences.
On a related note, one feature I'd like to add to our website are routine posts authored by the students leading the work we're doing. In an effort to encourage knowledge translation, I'm hoping the students leading the various ETAL projects will create a blog post explaining the work they've done, what their findings mean to the general public, and how the research experience may have influenced their path as they move on from StFX. The first of these posts (from ETAL alum Veda Haggarty) is in the works, and will be forthcoming soon.
Thanks as always for your interest in our work, and for checking in on our progress. More to come soon!
We're in a great town, and I'm privileged to work with great colleagues and amazing students. I've gotten to teach a nice cross-section of students thus far: both Fall terms I've led multiple sections of Intro Psych, and the Winter terms I've been assigned to teach a third-year class on Attention and a fourth-year seminar on Cognition (see my Teaching page here).
Research has been moving along as well. It's been an adventure trying to get my lab space operational, but I've been fortunate enough to keep the wheels moving as we've been ironing out the kinks (my Publications page is here). I've taken some shots at funding to support the lab (some have hit, many have missed), and we're making things work with what we've got. We're a resourceful group, and the students have been ambitious in applying for their own awards so we've really made some great progress.
The best part of the job is the work I get to do with the students in my lab. This year, two honours students (Julia Byron and Jack Lukeman) are embarking on really cool projects. Julia is taking the lead on a collaboration with Dr. Laura Lambe and members of the IVY Lab, looking at whether eye movement patterns can predict behaviour choices in certain social situations. Jack is exploring the time course of cueing effects in the spatial cueing task, and whether/how they might change as an influence of task difficulty. Last year, Veda Haggarty completed the first ever honours thesis in ETAL, looking at the influence of relationship attachment styles on the three networks of attention. Veda presented her work at the annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, and I had the honour of presenting her work on her behalf at the annual meetings for the Vision Sciences Society and the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Sciences.
On a related note, one feature I'd like to add to our website are routine posts authored by the students leading the work we're doing. In an effort to encourage knowledge translation, I'm hoping the students leading the various ETAL projects will create a blog post explaining the work they've done, what their findings mean to the general public, and how the research experience may have influenced their path as they move on from StFX. The first of these posts (from ETAL alum Veda Haggarty) is in the works, and will be forthcoming soon.
Thanks as always for your interest in our work, and for checking in on our progress. More to come soon!