Dr. Emily Schell is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where–in addition to her teaching–she specializes in applied social psychology and mixed methods. She earned her PhD in Developmental and Psychological Sciences from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, MA in International Comparative Education also from Stanford, and BA with honors in East Asian Studies and International Relations from Brown University. Additionally, she served as a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan—an experience that continues to shape her research. Emily’s research focuses on how higher education institutions can adapt their student support services and pedagogical approaches to better serve increasingly multicultural student bodies.
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Qualitative Methods, Mixed Methods, Community Engaged Teaching and Research
PSYC 3111 - Psychological Science 2: Research Methods in Psychology
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Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Provides a foundation in research methodology to give students the ability to design, conduct, analyze, and present (both verbally and in writing) an empirical study in psychology. Allows students to be effective producers and consumers of research.
PSYC 4011 - Senior Thesis
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Spring 2026
Critically reviews some aspect of psychological literature, scholarly analysis of a major psychological issue, and/or empirical research project. See the psychology honors director for further information.
PSYC 4376 - Research Methods in Social Psychology
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Fall 2024 / Spring 2026
Introduces the study of social psychological processes, emphasizing the social cognition perspective (e.g., stereotyping, person perception, theory of planned behavior) and the methods utilized in studying these processes. Students will complete research projects as part of the course.
PSYC 4399 - Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology
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Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
In this Lab and Methods course, we will take a deeper dive into different types of qualitative research approaches, such as observation, interviewing, and multimodal (e.g., text, media) analysis, to learn how each method can help us investigate elements of the human experience that we might otherwise not be able to study. We will cover basic theoretical principles of qualitative inquiry and acquire a general understanding of how different qualitative methods work. Through discussions, critique, a student-created �mini study,� and lots of hands-on practice, you will explore different ways of investigating our world in a scientific, but non-statistical, way that accurately and ethically uplifts the voices of your study participants. The goal of this course is to help you develop skills in qualitative research that will serve you well as a researcher or practitioner in psychology.
