This series aims to empower first year graduate students in gaining confidence to conduct research. All recordings can be viewed on the UMN Center for Maternal and Child Health Youtube.
Session 6: Sharing Your Research
December 2021: Join the Maternal & Child Health Interest Group for a presentation about best practices to share research as a first year graduate student. This recording features Shanda Hunt, the UMN Public Health Librarian.
Session 5: ABCDEF...IRB?
November 2021: Join the Maternal & Child Health Interest Group in a presentation discussing the Institutional Review Board and what it means to be a Student Primary Investigator! This recording features Delaine Anderson, a second year Maternal & Child Health Student.
Session 4: Data, Data, Data
November 2021: Join us for a presentation discussing all things quantitative data! This event included Marta Shore, a Biostatistics Lecturer, and Delaine Anderson, a second year Maternal & Child Health Student.
Session 3: How to Conduct Responsible Research
October 2021: Join us for a panel discussing research at its essence - its purpose, its power, and how to do it as an act of service. This panel included second year Maternal & Child Health Students Hadija Steen Mills and Delaine Anderson.
Session 2: Preparing for Research as a First Year Graduate Student
September 2021: Join us for a panel discussing the best ways to prepare yourself for research as a first year student. This panel includes Kaitlyn Traub, a second year Maternal & Child Health Student, Shanda Hunt, the UMN Public Health Librarian, and Dr. Susan Mason, an Associate Professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Session 1: Building a Strong Relationship with Your Advisor
August 2021: Meeting your advisor for the first time can feel really scary, but it doesn't have to be! SPH Professors Dr. Jamie Stang & Dr. Melissa Laska talked about how to create a strong relationship with YOUR advisor.
About this Initiative
"I didn't know where to start and I was afraid to ask."
Delaine Anderson, an Executive Board member of the Maternal & Child Health Interest Group, came into graduate school with a very limited understanding of how research is really done in an academic setting. Through many annoying emails to her advisor and others at the school she was able to complete an independent data analysis in her first semester that won the Student Poster Award at the University of Minnesota Women's Health Research Conference. Continuing this work, she published her research experience as a White & Hispanic woman in graduate school and then she became a student Primary Investigator on an IRB approved qualitative research study analyzing exposures to fitness & diet based media content in relation to young womens' body image. Super cool, right?
Delaine thinks that what she was able to do during her graduate degree should be accessible to everyone - the information itself is just difficult to find. She is leading this programming because of her desire to empower other students to do research independently. If you have any questions for her specifically, you can email Delaine at and08863@umn.edu. Happy researching!