2023 Update: I will not be reviewing applications for the Fall 2024 admissions cycle of the Clinical Psychology major in the Psychology doctoral program at Wayne State University.
If there are other faculty in our program with whom you would like to work, I encourage you to contact them.
Best wishes for a successful application process.
FAQ:
Interviews and complex exchanges outside the application process: We have a general program policy that we don’t conduct interviews outside the formal application process. The volume of applications to our program and specifically to our lab is very high. Our faculty and especially our students are very busy and cannot meet individually with everyone who requests it. If you are invited to interview, you will have many opportunities to connect with the faculty member(s) you targeted and their students. You can, of course, reach out to let me know about your interest: rapport@wayne.edu. I welcome that and will save your information. However, I will not be reviewing applications in this upcoming cycle.
What are we working on now? We have multiple, related studies of emotional and interpersonal functioning after acquired brain injury (ABI) ongoing as dissertation and thesis projects. We are also studying a very cool new visual memory test. These studies have been designed to run with synchronous teleadministration. We have multiple opportunities to work with datasets and projects associated with our Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS) site, the Southeastern Michigan Traumatic Brain Injury System (SEMTBIS). We recently garnered another major grant to continue the SEMTBIS that will focus on cognitive and psychosocial well-being outcomes of people with moderate to severe TBI. See the blog post about this new 5-year grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). In general, the topics we pursue are driven by student interest combined with careful consideration of opportunity and feasibility. We have many ideas and opportunities for students to pursue, but it is often the case that students propose a good idea that is both in the ballpark of my wheelhouse and feasible, and they are supported in pursuing their own novel path.
Other opportunities and expectations. Lab members typically collaborate and are provided opportunities to earn coauthorships on each other’s projects. Lab members typically volunteer to collaborate with me on reviewing journal articles, which hones skills in research design and provides an inside scoop on the review process. Lab members are typically mentored in submitting one or more applications for research funding or individual fellowship. Everyone will publish; some will publish more than others by choice.