Potential Projects

Watts College offers undergraduate students an opportunity to work closely with faculty on a research project. Below is a list of projects that faculty members are currently looking for undergraduate research students to assist with. If you are interested in working on one of these projects, please contact the professor listed. You can also discuss project ideas you have with any faculty member, and that faculty member may be able to suggest someone who could work with you.

Faculty, you can submit projects to be added to the list HERE.

Potential Projects

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Intimate Partner Homicide and Violence

Jesenia Pizarro, Jesenia.Pizarro@asu.edu

Seeking research assistants to help us collect data in Arizona, and potentially, remotely from other states (e.g., Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, and Texas) related to intimate partner homicide and violence. As a research assistant, you will code newspaper articles, law enforcement reports, and/or medical examiner reports.

Police Use of Force

William Terrill, William.Terrill@asu.edu

Project involves working with the Phoenix Police Department on collecting data on police use of force.

Various Projects on Policing

Ed Maguire, edmaguire@asu.edu

We have several projects related to policing, including one on the policing of protests, another on policing in the Navajo Nation, and a third on policing and communication.

“An Evaluation and Assessment of the Response to the Incidence of Right-Wing Domestic Terrorist Groups by Law Enforcement.”

Garth den Heyer, garth.den.heyer@asu.edu

“An Evaluation and Assessment of the Response to the Incidence of Domestic Terrorism by Local Law Enforcement.” 

Garth den Heyer, garth.den.heyer@asu.edu

“An Evaluation and Assessment of Proactive Policing and its Influence on Violence in the United States of America.” 

Garth den Heyer, garth.den.heyer@asu.edu

"What are the effects of an officer training program focused on increasing fairness in high crime areas on officer behavior and citizen perceptions of legitimacy in Indianapolis?" 

Cody Telep, cody.telep@asu.edu

Need assistance with data entry for recorded police officer activities in crime hot spots in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. Also need assistance conducting telephone surveys of individuals who had recent police contact with our project officers in Indianapolis.

"What is the impact of the Phoenix Police Department’s program to integrate intelligence gathering and analysis into patrol operations?" 

Cody Telep, cody.telep@asu.edu

Need Assistance in data entry and analysis of Phoenix Police Department officer surveys assessing attitudes about the program.

"Trust in Incarcerated Women"

Jacob Young, jacob.young.1@asu.edu

This project examines how trust develops among incarcerated women and how this shapes their experience with confinement.

 

Social Work

Diabetes Social Connection Research Study

Hyunsung Oh, hyunsung@asu.edu

COVID-19 Health Disparities Research

Hyunsung Oh, hyunsung@asu.edu

Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research (STIR) Research

Bandak Lul, blul1@asu.edu

The goal of the STIR office is to be a central source of research on domestic sex trafficking which will inform the decisions made by those who contact victims and perpetrators of sex trafficking, including law enforcement and prosecutors, educators, medical services and social services.

Intimate Partner Violence/Gender-based Violence Among Socially and Economically Marginalized Women

Tina Jiwatram-Negron, jiwatram@asu.edu

Project opportunities include: 1) supporting the launch of a newly funded project focused on exploring intimate partner violence among women living with HIV in Phoenix; 2) supporting a grant writing project to fund a gender-based violence intervention for women in Nepal; 3) supporting the dissemination of recent research completed in NYC, AZ, and foreign countries - through literature searches, data exploration, etc.; 4) supporting the cultivation of new projects and partnerships through attendance at joint research meetings, literature searches, etc.

 

Community Resources and Development

Sustainable Community Development

Mark Roseland, mark.roseland@asu.edu

Aspiring researchers needed to assist with updating a compendium of sustainable community development tools and initiatives and/or helping develop an online community decision-support tool.

Access to Public Spaces

Examinations of equity are incomplete without exploring the collective relationships communities have with shared environmental resources. This study examines equity in distribution and access to public spaces produced based on interactions between social, technical and environmental agents.