Feminism and STEM (GY)

Goals: 

• Exploring understudied issues concerning the social impact of digital technologies for health and wellness from a feminist social science perspective
• Training students in feminist social science research methods
• Providing students with hands-on experience with social science research methods
• Training students in technical fields to formally investigate the impacts of their current and future work
• Training students how to follow laboratory best practices, such as record keeping
• Providing students with opportunities to demonstrate their research proficiency to broader publics through publication credits and/or public presentations, as appropriate

Research, Design, and Technical Issues Involved or Addressed: 

Students will contribute to research tasks across the life cycle of a scholarly research practice. These could include:

• Conducting scholarly literature reviews in relevant fields of the social sciences
• Training in human subjects research ethics
• Training in qualitative data collection and analysis techniques
• Collecting and analyzing data from media sources and human subjects studies
• Collaborating to write scientific papers
• Leading or collaborating on scientific communication projects, such as conference talks and presentations for NYU and public audiences
• Creating design prototypes that demonstrate socially appropriate technological development
• Establishing best practices for a feminist-oriented research group
   

Primary Instructors

• Danya Glabau, Industry Assistant Professor
  • dag16@nyu.edu