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Student Spotlight: Brittany Burch

Senior, Social Work

You’re working on a project under the supervision of Professor Mary Mulvaney in the School of Social Work. What is the goal of your research project?

The goal of the project is to measure the effectiveness of a juvenile delinquency program that is staffed by Social Work interns from UT.

What was a challenge you encountered in your research project, and how did you overcome that challenge?

I came from the research class I took in the Fall having a lot of knowledge about dependent variables and ways to approach a research project, but I wasn’t exactly sure what to do for the next step of that. I didn’t have a lot of background in statistical software. But then I met with the TA who is working with my research professor from last semester. She is a doctorate student and she really knows social work from a research perspective and how to use SPSS and the software. I met with her and she helped walk me through what the SPSS software looks like and how I can insert the data. She just encouraged me and told me that I was on the right page and here are a few things you can change in your coding so it will be easier for you to go back and assess it.

Where do you see your research leading in the future?

The research process isn’t ever really going to end because it’s opening so many doors that I never thought it would. I’m going to hopefully make a poster with the information that I have and look at presenting in several conferences in the future.