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

Anastasia Preradovic (she/her) is a senior at the University of Washington majoring in Psychology. She is passionate about pursuing a doctorate degree in clinical psychology with specific interests in how practitioners can build their cultural competencies when working with people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds. Through the research being done at the SPIR Lab, she hopes to gain a deeper and interdisciplinary understanding as to how stigma and stereotyping affects the self perceptions of marginalized individuals. She hopes that this information will provide a foundation of knowledge that will be used in her future academics and researching interests within clinical psychology.

Jinie Chon is a sophomore at the University of Washington (Seattle), double majoring in Philosophy and Law, Societies, and Justice with a minor in Public Policy. She is passionate about exploring the role of diversity and DEI efforts in shaping the identity and experiences of historically marginalized identities. Using her research experience at SPIR Lab as a foundation, she aspires to attend law school and eventually become a legal scholar that advances socio-legal scholarship through interdisciplinary research.

Ny Ha (she/her) is a junior at the University of Washington majoring in Public Health-Global Health and minoring in Public Policy. Her future goals include applying her knowledge of health justice to create comprehensive health policies that will support the needs of underserved populations from minority and low-income backgrounds. With the skills she is building at the SPIR lab, she hopes to develop skills in the research design and policy analyses process in order to carry on with research of her own in the future by becoming a health policy analyst.

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Contact
260B Parrington Hall
Email: jurcevic@uw.edu
Office: 206.685.8803

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