Susan Staggs Email and Phone Number

Helped design Master's in Psychology program, teach Ethics, both sections of research methods, and for the past five years, the Capstone course. Nominated for outstanding psychology instructor. Student ratings are almost perfect and well above norms, supervisory ratings are 'exceeds expectations'.

Centre for Program Evaluation in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education; subjects taught include Impact Evaluation and Practice of Evaluation. Research activities include topics of evaluation synthesis and teaching of evaluation, Dean's award for student ratings above 4.5 on a five point scale.

Interim Program Director, Master's in Applied Psychology; Program Director, Graduate Certificate in Evaluation Studies; Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member award, 2008-2009; Outstanding Instructor award, Aspire Student Services for first generation, low-income, and disabled students, 2009-2010. Left tenure-track position at 4.5 years because of state budget cuts.Research and Consulting• Reviewer, National Institutes of Health.• Reviewer, Journal of Interpersonal Violence.• Consultant, National Science Foundation TUES grant, $40,000.Teaching and AdvisingGraduate Research Advising: Chaired over 30 student thesis committees, acted thesis and dissertation committee member. Graduate Teaching (hybrid and online): Advanced Health Psychology I & II, Advanced Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Principles of Program Evaluation I & II, Practicum/Internship, Psychosocial Interventions, Psychoeducational Interventions, Advanced Research Methods and Multivariate Statistics, Psychology of the Adult Learner, Professionalism Seminar, Consulting,Undergraduate Advising: Acted as academic advisor for over 60 Psychology majors.Undergraduate Teaching (hybrid and online): General Psychology, Environmental Psychology.ServiceUniversity: Faculty Senate (Personnel Policies subcommittee), Sustainability committee, Strategic Planning Group.College: Promotions committee, Sustainability workshop presenter.Department: Chair Advisory committee, Personnel committee, Bylaws Revision committee.

Research and ConsultingChicago Department of Human Services (CDHS), evaluated the impact of domestic violence services funded by the City of Chicago. Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Violence, organized and evaluated ethics and human subject protection seminars, wrote grant applications, conducted statistical analyses.Illinois Families (statewide welfare reform) Study, Project Director, managed 5 graduate students and several multi-source longitudinal datasets, conducted statistical analyses to examine relationships over time among intimate partner violence, employment, health, and other factors.Chicago Safe Start Project ($3.5 million participatory systems change intervention funded by the Department of Justice), Chicago Department of Public Health, Consultant and program evaluator, conducted process and outcome evaluations, wrote grants, wrote strategic, sustainability, and policy plans.Nationwide Study of State Domestic Violence Agency Evaluation Practices, Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), Co-PI and Project Director, managed project, supervised interviewers, designed survey, supervised data collection and analysis.InstructionGraduate Colloquium on Teaching of Psychology, Community Psychology

Social Psychology, General Psychology