I am a fourth year student in the I/O area of the SDOS program. I am involved in research projects with Dr. Paul Hanges, Dr. Kevin O'Grady, several of my graduate student colleagues, and several alumni practitioners in the area.

In terms of research, my content interests focus on leadership, diversity, and bias. In the field of leadership, my primary interests address issues relating to gender and leadership, but also extend to cover other concerns, such as how leaders influence relationships amongst team members, and how leadership might mitigate process losses experienced in virtual teams.  My interests in diversity encompass gender issues, cross-cultural affairs, and implicit discrimination in the workplace. My interest in bias overlaps with my research in diversity, but extends to issues addressing bias in a more general sense (e.g. prior information bias, halo bias), the nature of specific biases (e.g. whether they are "for" one group, "against" another, or both), and what interventions might help overcome bias. My quantitative research interests largely deal with the application of complexity theory, item response theory, and signal detection theory in organizational research. 

I am also part of the Design and Statistical Analysis Lab ('DaSAL'), a statistical consulting group operating out of the department which addresses the methodological and analytical issues of undergraduate students, graduate students, post docs, and faculty. Our website is:

http://blog.umd.edu/statconsulting/

In addition to my work as a statistical consultant, I am involved with the ClimateQUAL consulting project in conjunction with Paul Hanges and the Association for Research Libraries. For more on ClimateQUAL, please visit:

http://www.climatequal.org/

For additional information about my research and access to papers I've written (forthcoming), please refer to my academia.edu site:

http://umd.academia.edu/JulietAiken

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