Research
Interests
Energy Policy; Energy Justice; Climate Change; Environmental Policy; Sustainability
Graduate Research Assistant, Dealing with Disruption: Investigating the Micro-level Underpinnings of City Response to the Climate Crisis, 2021-Present
Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR), University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States
Grant: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Principal Investigators: Dr. Rachel M. Krause, Dr. Gwen Arnold
Activities: Data collection, survey instrument development, survey modeling in Qualtrics, managing dissemination of surveys, building and analyzing statistical models, writing literature reviews, conference papers and journal papers, presenting at conferences, conducting systematic literature reviews, newspaper archival search, developing websites, , network data collection, developing interview instruments, conducting interviews
Principal Investigator, Energy justice advocacy program: The administrative burden of applying for energy assistance programs, Spring 2022
Lawrence, United States
Grant: Sierra Club Kansas Chapter, $5,000
Advisor: Ty Gorman, Sierra Club
Interns: Katia Rivera-Cobian, Sophia Pascente
Activities: Educating and engaging undergraduate students, at the University of Kansas, in energy justice scholarship and advocacy, conducting qualitative interviews
Master's Capstone Project: Developing a Climate Action Plan for Illinois State Parks, the Rock Cut State Park, 2020
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign-Urbana, United States
Client: Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Supervisor: Dr. Brian Deal, Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC)
Advisor: Dr. Sean Kennedy
Research Assistant, Spring 2019
Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Assistant to Professor Asef Bayat
Developing a personal website
Master's Thesis: Developing a Sustainability Rating System for School Buildings by Analytical Network Process (ANP) analysis (in Farsi), 2017
School of Architecture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Advisor: Dr. Ali Vakili Ardebili