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National Judicial College; The Federal Judicial Center; The Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno; The Permanency Planning for Children Department of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges; U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Grant No. 96-CT-NX-001).

Duties: All phases of project management and implementation, including training and supervision of up to 15 survey staff, assistance with construction of the survey instrument, development of a code book, scheduling and conducting judge interviews, maintaining data quality (including supervision of coding, check-coding, check-code verification, data entry, entry verification, and data cleaning), and data analyses. Also, data analyses for portions of a model curriculum that was directly developed from the results of this research. (see "A Judge's Deskbook on the Basic Philosophies and Methods of Science," written by Shirley A. Dobbin, Ph.D. and Sophia I. Gatowski, Ph.D., at www.unr.edu/bench).

Duties: assist judges who are M.A. and Ph.D. students in the Judicial Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Reno with research methods, statistics, and grant writing for their theses and dissertations. Design, implement, and supervise research projects at the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies, including project development, grant writing, supervision of research staff, data analysis, and production of project deliverables.

Duties: Focus group and mock jury research related to litigation. All phases of research design, implementation, data analysis, and reporting.

Duties: literature and Internet searches; content analysis of newspaper articles and news video clips related to a high profile pre-trial publicity civil case; directly responsible for cataloging video materials, creating the codebook and code sheets for both the newspaper articles and video clips; training coders; coding, check-coding, check-code verifying, and data entry.

Duties: Court-appointed neutral investigator contracted to interview and assess individuals alleged to be mentally incapacitated and individuals applying for guardianship, and submit written affidavit of recommendations for granting guardianship in probate proceedings.

Working Group for Human Factors in Handwriting Examination. Handwriting Examination and Human Factors: Improving the Practice Through a Systems Approach. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology. (2017, in press).