Lab Director
Ines Jurcevic is an Assistant Professor in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. She received her B.S. in Psychology at the University of Washington and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Evans School, she was a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and Adjunct Lecturer at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Her research aims to understand how people and institutions think about diversity and how this translates into efforts to promote or undermine various initiatives and interventions. Further, she aims to examine how people’s individual attitudes, identities and group memberships inform these processes and influence performance and interpersonal outcomes in a variety of contexts. For more information, please see the Research page and her faculty page.
Current Research Assistants
Gordon La (he/him) is a sophomore at the University of Washington majoring in Public Health-Global Health and minoring in Bioethics. Gordon aspires to attend medical school to become a primary care physician who practices in rural communities to address health inequities and advocate for social justice. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, he is not only concerned about his own healthcare rights but also the rights of his future patients. So, at SPIR Lab, he aims to explore and extrapolate the complex, interdisciplinary mechanisms behind DEI initiatives to clinical settings. Understanding the social factors that drive health outcomes is imperative to reforming the healthcare system and improving queer health.
Adaya Stewart (she/her) is a junior at the University of Washington majoring in Sociology and minoring in Law, Societies, and Justice. She is passionate about synthesizing the skills from both of her disciplines to examine the interactions between families and communities of color with the legal system, specifically in the area of incarceration. Through her time at the SPIR Lab, Adaya will be gaining valuable experience engaging in work with close-to-home impacts. Understanding the ways that institutions attempt to mitigate identity-based discrepancies in opportunities for minority groups will lend her a valuable perspective on diversity in preparation for her future endeavors.
Lab Alumni
Top Row: Amy Willerford, Taicheng Jin, Ava Pecora, Karina Paup Byrnes
Second Row: Jordan Hawkins, Regan Gong, Danny Bush, Balqisa Hassan
Third Row: Nathan Chen, CJ Robinson, Ruyue Feng, Apichaya "Angie" Sangiamputtakoon
Fourth Row: Timila Kulkarni, Priya Hariharan, Elizabeth Young, Claire McCreery
Fifth Row: Tori Satterfield, Lukasz Kowalski, Grace Lewis, Ashley Magpali
Sixth Row: Elizabeth Sweet, Anastasia Preradovic, Jinie Chon, Ny Ha