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    My Research Journey

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I conduct basic and applied research studies. 

Asking questions.

I have served as a researcher in various research studies conducted since 2005, from clinical research studies to educational studies throughout my undergraduate and graduate studies. At times I have collected data as

a research assistant in projects that have already been established and aimed to advance knowledge in a   

current topic. Sometimes I led the projects under prominent supervisors to find solutions to problems. Throughout these years, curiosity, willingness to explore, and seeking answers to different questions encouraged me to serve as a researcher for various research studies from stimulus preparation to data analysis. 

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I conduct quantitative and qualitative research at each stage of the research process. 

Using different software programs to generate stimulus.

As a research assistant, a researcher, and a lead researcher throughout the years, I was involved in conducting different research studies. Most of the studies enabled me to learn various software programs to generate and present the stimulus. In the study that I examined the stimulus features contributing to complex scenes' perceptual organization,  I generated the visual stimulus using Adobe Photoshop. I collected data by presenting the stimulus on the E- prime Psychology Software Tool. During my dissertation, I developed a tool to test context processing; I generated the infographics test using Adobe Illustrator.  

   

Using various neuropsychological and psychological tools to collect data. 

When I served as a research assistant at the Sleep Research Laboratory, I sought to understand the sleep patterns, cognition, and metacognition of patients with paradoxical and psychophysiological insomnia. I collected data by evaluating each patient’s clinical, cognitive, and social functions using standardized neuropsychological tests (e.g., Judgment of Line Orientation Test) and psychological tools (e.g., MMPI). During my dissertation, to validate the test that I developed, I administered various cognitive tests (e.g., Hooper Visual Organization Test), subtests of Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence, and Graphical Literacy Scale. 

 

Using various software programs to analyze and present data.

In most of the projects  I was involved in, I analyzed quantitative data in the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).  I utilized Airtable to organize qualitative data when I served as a design researcher in the design consulting firm.  In the recent project that I have been working on, I use OpenRefine to clean data and Tableau Desktop for data visualization. 

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Verbally and visually explaining each stage of the study and sharing the results through poster presentations and published papers.
One of the most important stages in the research studies is verbally explaining how we conduct the studies and sharing the results with others through poster presentations and published papers. I presented posters at 
Vision Sciences Society Annual Meetings, Annual Meetings of the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, and published a research paper in the Statistics Education Research Journal along with my colleagues.

           

I conduct student-experience research studies. 

Willingness to solve problems.

While teaching the laboratory portion of the statistics class at Brooklyn College, I noticed that some of my students had a fear of statistics and low motivation at the beginning of the semester. I encountered similar student motivational patterns in subsequent semesters. In order to address this problem I  decided to initiate and lead a research project entitled "How to gamify statistics labs" that examined the association between gamified learning environments and the psychology statistics students' intrinsic motivation. I designed prototypes of the materials and developed the content in coordination with my team members. Throughout this project, I had the opportunity to work with very knowledgeable and open-minded faculty, my PhD supervisor, and other team members. I had a chance to utilize my project management skills by collaborating with faculty from different disciplines, managing research assistants, communicating with other departments (e.g., Computer Science Department) in a highly efficient and timely manner, delivering rapid feedback to the corresponding parties, and completing projects with team members.

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Each circle represents 1-12 months

Circle quantity representative of years dedicated to research 

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Design Research Intern

Consulting Firm, New York 

September 2019- August 2020

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Lead Researcher 

Project name: Use of Infographics to Evaluate Context Processing

Brooklyn, NY

September 2015- September 2019

Research Assistant 

Administering Neuropsychological Tests

Gazi University Hospital

Ankara, Turkey

November 2007-June 2008

Occupational Therapy Intern

Kfar Shaul Mental Health Hospital

Jerusalem, Israel

August-September 2007

Research Assistant

Recognition of Facial Expression in Alzheimer's Disease

Ege University

Izmir, Turkey

March-June 2006

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Research Assistant

Administering Neuropsychological Tests

Project name: Comparison of the cognition, meta-cognition and personal features in patients with psychophysiological insomnia, paradoxical insomnia and healthy people

Sleep Research Center

Ankara, Turkey

October 2007- November 2008

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Researcher

Administering Neuropsychological Tests

Mayis Psychological and Neuropsychological Consultation Center

Istanbul University Hospital

Neurology Department

Istanbul, Turkey

February 2011-May 2011

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Volunteer Psychologist 

Administering neuropsychological tests 

Manhattan Psychiatry Center

New York 

April 2015-December 2015

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Researcher 

Project name: Stimulus Features Contributing to Perceptual Organization of Complex Scenes

CUNY Brooklyn College

Brooklyn, NY

October 2011-March 2015

My Research Journey

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Lead Researcher 

Project name: Making Psychology Statistics Fun:

Gamification of an Undergraduate Psychology Statistics Lab

Brooklyn, NY

October 2015-June 2018

Academic Publication and Presentations

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Delcy, S., Hazan, B., Iqbal, J., & Kurylo, D.D. (2019). Developing a neuropsychological test to assess visual cognition in schizophrenia. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, Anaheim, California. 

 

Hazan, B. (November 2018). Use of Infographics to evaluate visual context processing. Oral presentation as a visiting scholar at the University of Central Florida, Florida. 

 

Hazan, B., Zhang, W., Olcum, E., Bergdoll, R, Grandoit, E., Mandelbaum, F., Wilson-Doenges, G., & Rabin, L. (2018). Gamification of an undergraduate psychology statistics lab: Benefits to perceived competence. Statistics Education Research Journal, 17(2), 255-265.

 

Hazan, B. (March 2018). The value of thinking outside the box. Oral presentation at TEDXCUNY Salon at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.

 

Grandoit, E., Bergdoll, R., Chan, J., Rabin, L., Kletenik, D., Chung, C., Zhang, W., Olcum, E., Menedes, C., Rishty, A., & Hazan, B. (October 2017). Comparison of learning efficiency with and without relevant extrinsic rewards in gamified psychological statistics classrooms. Poster presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Newton, MA.

 

Hazan B., & Kurylo, D.D. (May 2017). Use of Infographics to evaluate visual context processing. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL.

 

Hazan, B., Zhang, W., Olcum, E., Chan, J., Bergdoll, R., Salahudin, A.,Park, J., & Rabin, L. (October 2016). Statistics for Fun: Gamification of an undergraduate psychology statistics lab. Poster Presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology, Newton, MA.

 

Hazan, B., Zhang, W, Olcum, E., Rabin. L. (January 2016). Teaching Statistical Laboratory Sessions through a Gamified Learning Experience. Oral presentation at the CUNY Game Festival, New York, NY.

 

Hazan, B. (October 2015). Teaching Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) through using real-life data. Oral Presentation at the CUNY-Sixth Annual Pedagogy Day: Student Engagement and Activism-Activity Blitz, New York, NY.

 

Hazan, B., Kurylo, D., Baran, Z, & Bowens, N. (May 2014). Top-Down effects on categorizing incomplete complex scenes. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) Meeting, Orlando, FL.

 

Hazan, B., Kurylo, D., Baran, Z., & Zhao, X.  (May 2014).  Stimulus features contributing to perceptual organization of complex scenes. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL.

 

Kurylo, D. & Hazan, B. (March 2013). Perceptual grouping of brief-exposure stimuli is facilitated by hysteresis.  Poster presented at the 84th Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association-Consuming Psychological Science, New York, NY.

 

Hazan, B. (November 2009). Comparison of the cognition, meta-cognition and personal features in patients with psychophysiological insomnia, paradoxical insomnia and healthy people. Oral presentation as a visiting student at the Glasgow University Sleep Research Group, Glasgow, Scotland.

 

Hazan, B., Ozgen, F., & Karakas, S. (November 2009). Comparison of the cognition, meta-cognition and personal features in patients with psychophysiological insomnia, paradoxical insomnia and healthy people. Poster presented at the 45th National Psychiatry Congress, Ankara, Turkey.

 

Hazan, B., Emik, G., & Savas, F. (June 2006). Recognition of Facial Expression in Alzheimer Disease. Oral presentation at the Turkish National Symposium of Psychology Students, Izmir, Turkey.

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