WORKSHOPS
Performing Journal Article Peer Review
In the fall of 2023, I conducted a graduate level workshop on writing a review memo for academic peer review. This workshop was hosted through the Population Studies Center (PSC) Skills Clinic, which focuses on providing additional training to PSC pre and postdoctoral students. This workshop builds off of my "reviewer-in-training" guide on writing review memos (available below).
Patterson Review Memo Tips and Example_2023_updatedSept.pdf
Literature Reviews
In the fall of 2023, I conducted a 1.5-hour graduate level workshop on strategies for conducting a thorough and up-to-date literature review. The workshop focused on search engines, strategies for keywords and search terms, and organizing information/files, and included both examples and hands on activities.
National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) and National Study of Caregiving (NSOC)
Beginning in the summer of 2022, alongside Mengyao Hu, Vicki Freedman, and Maureen Skehan, I helped create and co-design the annual NHATS/NSOC summer workshops. Each summer there are two interactive, online workshops, one for NHATS and one for NSOC, where data users learn more about NHATS/NSOC and receive personalized help to construct their study. These workshops build off of the free publicly available NHATS online course for beginners (for more information, see the NHATS Getting Started page).
Intro to Statistical Concepts
In the fall of 2019, I conducted multiple one night undergraduate level workshops through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at the University of Michigan. These workshops focused on highlighting the most common statistical concepts used in a variety of research fields.
Data Cafes
During my time as the KIDS COUNT project manager the Indiana Youth Institute (2008 - 2013), I participated in presenting at statewide "Data Cafes." These cafes were geared toward youth workers and the general public. Participants could come learn about data available on child and family well-being in their local area.
CLASSROOM TEACHING
I have over four years of independent teaching experience from two universities, The Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), in addition to teaching assistant experience.
My main goal in teaching is to help students recognize the ways in which our social world is organized. I accomplish through the use of real world datasets and research, online interactions, guest speakers from the community, as well as with the use of traditional teaching materials.
I have also independently pursued further pedagogical training and teaching education through the Preparing Future Faculty program at IUPUI and a distance education course for instructors through Indiana University (IU).
Classes I have taught include:
Intermediate Social Statistics (PSU)
Introduction to Sociology (IUPUI)
Sociology of Family (IUPUI)
Sociology of Gender (IUPUI)
Classes I have been an assistant for:
Demographic Methods - Graduate Level (PSU)
Population and Policy (PSU)