INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

Kathryn Asiel 
Class: 2028
Major(s): Social Policy and Economics

• Archiving and documenting the history over time of a community with a primarily oral history and limited written history
• Using one-on-one interviews to expand and inform collective knowledge of life for those living with a cooperative within Chicago
• Utilizing data of all cooperatives in Chicago, alongside the idea of cooperatives as a whole to aid in published research about the uniqueness and benefits of cooperative housing.

• Exploring the longitudinal effects of a housing subsidy—and more broadly housing instability—on cardiovascular and mental health. 

• Exploring the longitudinal effects of a housing subsidy, and more broadly housing instability, on cardiovascular and mental health

• Investigating how societal stressors influence physical and mental health outcomes
• Supporting day-to-day wet-lab operations, including routine processing of blood samples and flow cytometry analysis

• Investigate the health outcomes in populations receiving government housing subsidies

• Tracking lawyers’ careers over time through the After the JD Project, a longitudinal study following lawyers who entered the bar in 2000
• Examining career trajectories and experiences through a fourth wave of interviews with participants now in their 50s
• Expanding the study with a new cohort of lawyers who entered the bar within the last two years
• Exploring the effects of COVID-19 and political change on lawyers’ careers, professional experiences, and political views

• Building a database of Civil Rights-era archival materials to support research on voting rights organizing

• Contacting legislative offices and encouraging representatives to respond to a survey to collect data

• Conducting data entry and organizing details for analysis

• Investigating race-based stress in adolescents and the effects of promoting Ethnic Racial Identity

• Examining how patterns of human movement and interaction shape unequal access to diverse social environments and influence well-being across communities

• Examining how political violence against elected officials from county officials up to Congressmen and women affects their view of their job and duty
• Managing survey participants' responses through data entering and cleaning

• Archiving and digitizing materials from Neighborhood Commons Cooperative (NCC)—a majority-Black, working-class housing cooperative located in Lincoln Park, Chicago—while also interviewing members and management on their experience in the neighborhood

• Investigating the consequences of how diversity policies are perceived in organizations and workspaces

• Analyze interview, observation, and survey data from two different studies of Pre-K–3 mathematics education in California school districts

• Investigating belief updating brain processes in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis through EEG and behavioral data analysis

• Building a structured database of Italian newspaper coverage of abuso d'ufficio and corruption cases involving municipal officials, using a search strategy across Factiva, regional archives, and news agencies to produce article-, event-, and municipality-level datasets.

• Investigating the effect of substantial income in supplements on childhood development in low income households

• Investigating the career trajectories of state legislators to support research on the evolution of representation in U.S. state legislatures

• Exploring how differences in physical and social environment affect inflammation and biomarker levels in the blood
• Investigating how to improve methods for field-based biological sample collection

• Researching congestion pricing in New York and conducting thorough policy analysis

• Processing longitudinal school data to help uncover how everyday stressors in adolescence ripple into long-term health and academic disparities

• Analyzing collected data about patient experiences during a clinical trial testing the use of a diabetes educational toolkit to understand the educational needs of diabetes patients

• Planning communications strategy and managing public facing, digital platforms for the Buehler Center