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THE RISEUP VISION

To create a more equitable world for all people.

THE RISEUP MISSION

To provide scientific evidence that will improve access to legal, educational, and public health resources for marginalized populations.

RISEUP Values + Goals

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Research in Social Equity is a broad spectrum lab run by Dr. Laura Oramas (developmental psychology, Florida International University) and Dr. Stephanie Wright (social psychology, NC University). As such, research concerns cover a range of topics we both care about as well as some brought to us by students that are applicable to the goals of the lab. These include, but are in no way limited to, factors affecting collegiate performance, sexual assault and interpersonal violence, capital mitigation, gender differences in capital sentencing, black women’s perceptions of their place in the BLM movement, critical thinking and the integrity of the American voting process, and revenge porn.

In addition to the above, both of us are first-generation college students. In an era when to be a first-gen student is also to be lauded and scrutinized and as faculty at an open access institution, we take our obligations to our students very seriously. We were each invited as undergraduates in psychology to join research labs and credit those experiences as altering our course of academic development. Understanding from both personal experience and the literature that engaging undergraduate students in research is a high impact practice, we both worked with colleagues during graduate school to run undergraduate labs and, as faculty, have established and sustained them in our institutions. It is with great pleasure that we welcome new students of promise into the RISEUP lab and include them in our work as well as shepherd them through their own. Our students enjoy the opportunity to work on projects that have real world significance. They are free to explore even the craziest of ideas without concern for class grades, and they find their contributions meaningful to the group and - often - to the heart of a project, impacting design and development. These collaborations wake RISEUP students to the passion of research and to their abilities to alter the course of culture.

As a final word, we were fortunate to work with local law enforcement this past semester in an ongoing series of studies on police responses to sexual assault crimes. It is our intention to continuing building partnerships with external agencies where possible and mutually beneficial. Please email or telephone if you are interesting in working together on idea you may have.

For all of the above reasons, we are pleased to invite you to see a bit of what we’re working on.

About RISEUP

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Current Researchers

  • Assistant Professor, Developmental

  • Professor, Evolutionary Neuroscience

  • Professor, Social

  • Senior, Psychology Major + Criminology Minor

  • Senior Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Junior, Psychology Major

  • UNG Graduate

  • Junior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • Senior, Psychology Major

  • GGC Graduates: Joanna Boes | Heidi Bolte | Lucia Nodarse Dominguez | Cameron Kelly | Zachary Lakebrink | Paloma Garcia-Perez | Thomas McMullin | Amabel Rodriguez | Kimberly Roney | Diana Vargas | Jasmine Zuniga-Alvarez

Interested in joining the lab? Learn how here.

RISEUP Co-Leader Dr. Laura Oramas and student researchers Jazz Florence,

D’Laya Harris, Leslie Trejo-Rangel, and Ashten Allison withSchool of Business

Dean Tyler Yu at the Annual BEAR Conference after a winning presentation.

 

RISEUPpers Heidi Bolte and Thomas McMullin examine data for the paygap study.

Current + Recent Research

  • In fall 2022, we (Drs. Oramas and Wright) worked with two student research assistants to conduct part one of what was conceived as a two-part study. This project, a live crime scene study, asked participants to assume the role of a police officer responding to a sexual assault. In spring 2023, our study included local law enforcement offices as participants.

    AY23-24 Seed Funds will allow us to conduct a follow up study in which we will utilize eye tracking technology to assess what parts of a crime scene correspond with which manipulations in the crime story to affect outcomes. We’re very excited about this study and are equally excited to welcome Ashten Alison as a sponsored student researcher on the project.

  • During the spring 2023 and summer 2023 terms, I (Dr. Wright) worked with Dr. Platek on a legal treatment of revenge porn and its newest incarnation - the deep fake. Our paper is currently undergoing final polishing and will submitted by the end of the summer..

  • I (Dr. Wright) began the the pay equity study in fall 2021 with three student research assistants. Since that time, students associated with the lab and I have coded almost 80,000 names and are beginning a second phase with an additional 70,000. Phase I concluded in the summer semester 2023 when we completed the manuscript with our analyses comparing the salaries for all University System of Georgia employees from several relevant angles. The manuscript is currently being edited before being sent for submission.

  • During the fall 2022 semester, I (Dr. Oramas) worked with faculty in the biology department and a RISEUP student research assistant studying factors affecting student success at GGC. Our student research assistant presented her research at the GGC C.R.E.A.T.E. symposium in October 2022.