Evaluation Researcher

Jill Bathon is the Assistant Director of CRESP at the University of Delaware.  She works closely with the CRESP Team to support CRESP operations.  These activities include proposal development and submission, budgeting, contract development, research project management, coordination of teams, and office operations.

Zoey Lu, Ph.D., is an Associate Data Scientist at the Center for Research in Education & Social Policy (CRESP) at the University of Delaware. Dr. Lu specializes in instrument development as well as working and managing large-scale, longitudinal datasets. She has performed a wide range of quantitative statistical analyses, such as advanced regression analysis and finite mixture models. She also has years of experience in program evaluation from her prior employment. She is currently working on the college readiness research project that aims to investigate the relationship between different high-school course trajectories and students’ college and career readiness, as well as the causal impact of students’ test proficiency on their college and career readiness using regression discontinuity and comparative interrupted time-series design.

CRESP Research Assistant: 2019–

Carly Hill is a Research Associate II in the School of Education at both the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP) and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. Carly earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Sciences with a concentration in Medical Social Services at the University of Delaware. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing associations between stigma and health inequities, specifically with people living with HIV or substance use disorders. Most recently, Carly co-authored a paper on her research addressing barriers to and facilitators of care for people living with HIV in the state of Delaware.

Carly also works to support CRESP on multiple projects. Currently, she is a part of the evaluation team for the ACCEL project which is helping to advance clinical and translational research in Delaware. She also supports Delaware’s WIC clinics in implementing a new program designed to connect families of children with developmental concerns to free services.

Samantha Shewchuk, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at CRESP and a senior researcher within the Center for Research Use in Education (CRUE) at the University of Delaware. Dr. Shewchuk specializes in knowledge mobilization (KMb) efforts to address the research-policy-practice gaps across public service sectors. She is Co-Principal Investigator of a $2M grant from the Gates Foundation for the CREATEd project, which seeks to activate researcher and knowledge broker networks to effectively distribute knowledge and research into use by educators. Within the CRUE portfolio, Dr. Shewchuk managed several research projects on research brokerage and the network of actors, relationships, and processes in the ‘third space’ between education research and practice.  She was previously the program manager of RIPPLE: Research Informing Policy, Practice, and Leadership in Education—a program of research aimed at learning more about how to improve linkages between researchers and decision makers in education across Ontario.