Erin Ash, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Dr. Ash's research focuses primarily on representations of social groups in media and their effects, including media-based stereotyping, beliefs about inequality, and support for policies aimed at alleviating these issues. Her work has examined the relationship between media portrayals and these outcomes across a variety of contexts, including news, sports, video games, film/entertainment, and health.
Matthew H. E. M. Browning, Associate Professor, Director, Virtual Reality and Nature Lab, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
Dr. Browning’s work is at the nexus of environmental science and public health, examining how technological nature benefits human health. My role as director of the Virtual Reality and Nature Lab ([VRN] in Sirrine 368) involves leading interventional and observational research using immersive technologies (i.e., VR, smartphone apps, holographic imagery) in the newly renovated Research Innovation Suite ([RIS] in Sirrine 374). The RIS includes four reservable rooms for CBSHS colleagues with features allowing tightly controlled experiments. The VRN specializes in spatial epidemiology and advanced exposure assessments to investigate how built, and natural environment factors influence mental health/well-being, disease, mortality, and racial violence, including fatal police shootings. Other skills and interests include artificial intelligence, climate change, health inequities, healthcare facility design, telehealth, and wearables.
Kaileigh Byrne, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Dr. Byrne's primary area of research is centered on decision-making and reward motivation. She examines how both individual difference factors and situational factors, including stress, potential for benefits and losses, and level of effort expenditure influences affect decision-making outcomes. Her lab uses a multimodal approach to examine the cognitive, physiological, and computational processes that influence our decisions and actions.
Matthew Costello, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Costello’s research focuses on online deviant behavior and domestic and cross-national political violence and rebellion. He is particularly interested in understanding the causes and consequences of online deviance.
Lori Dickes, Professor, Department of Political Science
Dr. Dickes’ research leverages specific training in economics and policy analysis to better understand rural and regional development across different geographies and in different contexts. Dr. Dickes’ research focuses on a range of specific issues, including entrepreneurship, broadband access and availability, regional economic development, maternal health and substance use disorders, and natural resource policy; all of these issues impacting the ability of communities to be economically and socially sustainable. Using transdisciplinary and participatory methods, Dr. Dickes has experience using quantitative and qualitative approaches, including cost-benefit analysis, feasibility studies, economic and policy analysis and a wide range of community and stakeholder engagement approaches.
Miao Li, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
Dr. Li specializes in social determinants of health, aging and life course, family and child development, and quantitative research methods.
Caitlin Moore, Associate Director, Clinical Operations, Clemson Rural Health
Dr. Moore’s current research interests include nurse practitioner-led mobile health units, hepatitis C screening and treatment, and the use of technology platforms for remote patient monitoring.
Andrew Pyle, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Communication
Dr. Pyle's research focuses on the intersection of crisis communication and intercultural communication. He is also interested in the ways that organizations employ social media to manage crisis communication. With fellow Center for Public Safety Research faculty affiliates, Pyle has begun studying the intersection of effective crisis communication and novel approaches to policing and police communication.
Corrine Sackett, Professor, Department of Education and Human Development
Dr. Sackett’s research agenda centers on accessing and utilizing client perspectives of the counseling process to improve client engagement and outcomes. Her research ultimately helps to improve the quality and outcome of care for mental health and addictions counseling in a variety of settings through accessing and utilizing client perspectives to inform treatment. Dr. Sackett also targets advocacy around societal issues in her research.
Iryna Sharaievska, Assistant Professor, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
Dr. Sharaievska’s research focuses on technology-based leisure in contemporary families, leisure behavior among individuals and families of diverse backgrounds (non-resident parent, veteran families, low-income and rural families, family members with disabilities), and the use of new technologies in recreation management (e.g., the new media/social network sites, gaming, cell phones, navigational devices).
Mark Small, Professor, Director, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, Department of Psychology
Dr. Small’s research focuses on community approaches to well-being, community mental health, social justice, and program evaluation.
