S02E18 -- Investigation, Outcomes, and Developmental Psychology Within and Between, an Interview with Dr. Jessica Logan from Ohio State

Summary: In this episode of the Unlikely Academics, Drs. Silver and Holcombe, sans Tommy, interview Dr. Jessica Logan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies (https://www.jarlogan.com/). Dr. Logan focuses on research methodology as well as evaluation and measurement. Drs. Silver and Holcombe worked with Dr. Logan at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga while all three were completing their masters program at roughly the same time. Dr. Logan received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Florida State University in 2009. She is a co-host of the Podcast Within and Between Podcast, which deals with methodology in development science at withinandbetweenpod.com We discuss wide-ranging topics from Science, issues of diversity, being an unlikely academic, and Dr. Logan’s experience and narrative of how she shifted from an interest in music (she is an alumnus of Sigma Alpha Iota from Middle Tennessee State University) to linguistics and developmental psychology. This is a bit of a more extended interview; however, given the richness of Jessica’s story, we only edited out sound errors to keep the entirety of Jessica’s message.