HDFS Graduate student Carmen Britton’s Fulbright grant is from November 2016 thru August 2017.  She will partner with the Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, to conduct qualitative research relating to the experiences of people with disabilities in Community Based Rehabilitation.

HDFS graduate student Jia Li Liu has been offered a Fulbright Research Grant to study in Hong Kong.  The grant is from July 2016 and March 2017.  Jia Li will be collaborating with Dr. Florrie Fei-Yin Ng in the Educational Psychology department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. They will be working on a mixed method study that examines Chinese immigrant and native Hong Kong mother and teacher ethnotheories of shyness, related socialization practices, and shy children’s school adjustment.