Admissions & Aid Applying to Batten Admissions Blog Posts Tagged with Research Eileen Chou Eileen Chou is an associate professor of public policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Chou's research focuses on the organizational, social, and psychological forces that shape individual and group behavior in organizational settings. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Leadership, Social Psychology Pam Cipriano Pamela Cipriano is a professor of nursing and public policy at the Batten School and current dean of the UVA School of Nursing. Cipriano’s more than 40-year career in nursing is marked by a focus on improving the safety and efficiency of care by ensuring a healthy, safe, and supportive work environment and encouraging healthy behaviors to promote well-being. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Health Policy, School of Nursing Benjamin Converse Benjamin Converse is an associate professor of public policy and psychology at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and the Department of Psychology. His research focuses on motivation, social judgment, problem solving and decision making. He teaches courses related to leadership and negotiations. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Leadership, Social Psychology Kevin Cope Kevin Cope is an associate professor of law and public policy at the Batten School and an associate professor of law at UVA's School of Law. Cope’s research focuses on the measurement of legal and political phenomena. Substantively, he is most interested in the law and politics of international institutions, migration, and relationships between domestic institutional structure and international behavior. He is a faculty affiliate at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Political Science, School of Law Timothy L Davis Tim Davis is an associate professor of public policy and the Director of Leadership Coaching and Executive Development for BattenX. A clinical psychologist, Davis helps students, executives and teams increase their effectiveness by building resiliency, strengthening community and expanding self-awareness. At Batten, he teaches courses on team leadership, group dynamics and emotional resilience. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Leadership Bevin Etienne Bevin Etienne is an assistant professor and general faculty at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Etienne has extensive teaching and course development experience in the areas of sustainability, entrepreneurship, energy, and engineering design. He emphasizes the importance of capacity building in promoting sustainability and social entrepreneurship in developing countries as well as the role of open source in innovation and entrepreneurship. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, McIntire School of Commerce, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Equity, Environmental Policy Margaret Foster Riley Margaret Foster Riley is a professor of law and public policy at the Batten School, a professor of law at UVA's School of Law and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Riley has written and presented extensively about biomedical research, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cell research, animal biotechnology, health disparities and chronic disease. She serves as chair of UVA’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee and as legal advisor to the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for reviewing all human subject research at UVA involving medically invasive procedures. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Ethics, Health Policy, School of Law Galen Fountain Galen Fountain is a lecturer at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Previously, he served for nearly two decades as Clerk of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies and prior to that as Counsel to the Senate Committee on Small Business. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Political Science Leora Friedberg Leora Friedberg is an associate professor of economics and public policy at the Batten School and an associate professor and Vice Chair at UVA's Department of Economics. Her focus is on labor economics, including research on social security, aging and retirement economic impacts. Read More Batten Publication, Faculty, Event, News, Research, Research Speaker, Workshop, Department of Economics, Economics, Domestic Policy & Politics Kirsten Gelsdorf Kirsten Gelsdorf is a professor of practice of public policy at the Batten School and the Director of Global Humanitarian Policy. Gelsdorf has 19 years of experience working in the humanitarian sector, most recently serving as the Chief of the Policy Analysis and Innovation section at the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 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