Emily Olsen is a junior at UNH with a double major in English and Women’s Studies. Her research project grew out of her data entry work as part of a team conducting research in bystander intervention. She became interested in the different questions the data might answer and designed her research proposal under the direction of Professor Mary Moynihan. In the summer of 2004, she received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) to carry out her work. During her project, she learned a lot about doing statistical research in the social sciences; compiling her results into a research report was the most difficult task. The best part was the opportunity to work with Professor Moynihan: “She taught me so much and helped me a great deal with this research project.” Emily wants to go on to graduate school and someday work as an editor at a publishing house.
Professor Mary Moynihan, a native of New Hampshire, has been at UNH for about 15 years in various research and instructional capacities. She is presently Research Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, and internship coordinator. Emily was not the first SURF student Professor Moynihan has mentored. She feels that mentoring and working with Emily on the Inquiry article was “absolutely a great experience and opportunity for an undergraduate to [go through] the review process and have a journal to publish in.” She and Emily had fun with the Inquiry poster, revising it for Women’s Studies.
Read Emily Olsen’s research article, Strategies for Intervening in Situations of Sexual Violence: Does Gender Matter? >>
