Mentor: Dr. Gillian Einstein
Professor
Project Description
This project is to understand what it is like for African immigrant women to age in Canada as well as to understand their concomitant brain aging. Students will join a team who are already interviewing, transcribing, and analyzing qualitative interviews as well as to scoring and analyzing neuropsychological data. This is an underrepresented group in aging research and the results will help the health care system better understand their personal as well as cognitive health needs as they age.
Mentorship Statement
When students enter my lab I ask them what their short- and long-term goals. My mentorship philosophy is to work with them to help achieve those goals. I start with the students’ strengths, building their responsibilities around those and as they work from those strengths, help them strengthen the things they find difficult. I view working in a research lab a unique learning experience in which students engage in the hands on research project while interacting with a group of other equally engaged developing professionals. This project is uniquely suited for an SROP student as it might involve their community or other groups that are underserved and under-understood by the health care system. It also will reveal unique resiliences adding insight to the SROP’s understanding of their own aging relatives.