Lab: News 

New Chapter on Building a Feminist and Sustainable Approach to Productivity 

January 2023
Dr. Sabik co-authored a chapter in the new book Feminists and the Road to Tenure: Transforming the Academy. This book features chapters by a diverse group of feminist psychologists and social scientists and provides early career academics real-world insights and effective strategies for achieving tenure and ensuring the continued legacy of feminist scholarship within and beyond the academy. Dr. Sabik’s contribution to the chapter focused on building a sustainable approach to research productivity. The chapter is available via the Open Science Framework.


NIH Conference Presentation on Gender and Burnout

October 2022
Dr. Sabik presented collaborative research on gender roles, stress, and burnout at a conference organized by the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the NIH. The event was focused on Gender and Health: Impacts of Structural Sexism, Gender Norms, Relational Power Dynamics, and Gender Inequities.


New Course on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Stress and Burnout at URI

January 2022
Dr. Sabik was awarded a General Education Course Seed Grant from the University of Rhode Island for the development of a new interdisciplinary course “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Burnout.” The course is now offered through the accelerated online program at URI.


New Research on Representation in Psychological Research

August 2021
Dr. Sabik led a team of scholars with expertise in intersectionality to develop a framework for analyzing representation in psychological research studies. This project, titled Bringing an Intersectional Lens to “Open” Science: An Analysis of Representation in the Reproducibility Project was published in a special issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly focused on feminist approaches to the open science movement.