PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Dr. Cochran is committed to helping students grow academically and professionally through hands-on research experience. She focuses on training students in a collaborative lab environment that is run by students, under her mentorship. The primary goal is to help students build valuable skillsets that boost their resume and further the team's program of research.
Student assistants have the option to engage with projects at a variety of levels, as their experience and schedules permit. Most new students join at the beginner level and progress through intermediate- and advanced-level training activities in the following semesters. Typically, students who maintain ongoing involvement with the team for two or more semesters will get training in all three primary phases of project development: Research Design, Data Collection and Analysis, and Reporting.
Dr. Cochran invites new students to join the research team every semester and holds an interest meeting in September and February.​
Complete the student interest form here and email Dr. Cochran at kacochran1@una.edu. She'll review your form and reach out with further guidance.
About Dr. Cochran:
Dr. Cochran is an experimental psychologist. She received her doctoral training in psychological science from Kent State University (2019), with a specialization in quantitative methods and social-health. ​
She also studied experimental psychology at Appalachian State University (2014) and credits her mentors there for the majority of her professional training in teaching and research mentorship.​​
Most poetically, she completed her undergraduate studies in the UNA Psychology Program (2012), where she worked as a student research assistant and collaborated with faculty mentors. She has always emphasized her earliest research experiences at UNA as fundamental to all of her career-building opportunities. She hopes to forward the program's longstanding tradition of mentorship and research to the next generation of students.
"I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me." - Ralph Waldo Emerson