Meredith Pecukonis, Ph.D.
mpecukonis@mgh.harvard.edu
Service & Resources
Systemic inequities in science and academia exist at a variety of levels, which I seek to dismantle through service to my university, discipline, and community.
Resources:
1. Professional development resources for undergraduate students.
These presentations were created to support undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in psychology. Video recordings below are from a virtual professional development workshop series held in 2021. Links to pdf versions of the powerpoints are also available below.
2. Professional development resources for graduate students.
F31 application materials (funded):
fNIRS materials:
Applying for postdocs or faculty jobs?
3. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB).
Resources for increasing representation in fNIRS research:
- Demographic reporting and phenotypic exclusion in fNIRS research
- Confronting racially exclusionary pratices in neuroimaging
- Impact of skin pigmentation on fNIRS signal
- fNIRS hair braiding tutorial
- Hair management tips for fNIRS
- Participate in the fNIRS inclusion study at Boston University
Resources for autistic students:
- INSAR Autistic Researchers Committee
- Autism & Neurodiversity Advocacy Association
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity
- ASPIRE internship program
- ReGame XR summer internship program at Northeastern University
- Asperger Works
- Institute for Community Inclusion
- Neurodiversity Network
- Autism Goes to College
Conference presentations related to DEIB:
The Society for fNIRS DEI committee developed a climate survey to gather data on the identities, lived experiences, and needs of SfNIRS members. We are currently preparing findings from this survey for publication to raise awareness of DEI-related issues within the international fNIRS community. Preliminary findings from the survey are summarized in the poster below.
The poster below summarizes findings from the 2017 United States National Survey of Children's Health. Check out press coverage of this poster through Spectrum News.
