Anna Woodcock is an Associate Research Professor in Claremont Graduate University’s Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences and is affiliated with the Applied Social Psychology Program along with the Claremont Evaluation Center. Her research interests lie in the broad areas of prejudice, and stereotyping—specifically, understanding the contextual factors that foster balance between stereotypically incompatible identities.
Woodcock studied at Macquarie University in Australia and received her PhD in social psychology from Purdue University. She now conducts longitudinal research and evaluation of large-scale interventions for broadening participation in STEM. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, and she maintains active collaborations with the Endocrine Society and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). Through this work, she answers empirical questions about the short and longer-term impact of negative stereotypes on identity and identity balance.
Woodcock attributes a share of the success of these large-scale longitudinal research programs to the tailored panel management (TPM) protocol she developed and has used for the past decade to maximize participant commitment and participation in research. She has mentored and trained more than 100 students on her research projects and collaborates with investigators and their students across many institutions. She infuses her research into her teaching, with courses in social psychology and the psychology of bias.
Hernandez, P.R., Woodcock, A, Estrada, M, & Schultz, P.W. (2018). Undergraduate research experiences broaden diversity in the scientific workforce. BioScience, 68, 204-211.
Woodcock, A., Hernandez, P.R., & Schultz. P.W. (2016). Diversifying science: Programs weaken the effect of chronic stereotype threat on maladaptive achievement goals. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, 184-192.
Woodcock, A. & Bairaktarova, D. (2015). Gender -biased self-evaluations of first-year engineering students. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 21, 255-269.
Woodcock, A., Hernandez, P. R., Estrada, M., & Schultz, P. W. (2012). The consequences of chronic stereotype threat: Domain disidentification and abandonment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103, 635-646.
Estrada, M., Woodcock, A., & Schultz, P.W. (2014). Tailored Panel Management: A theory-based approach to building and maintaining participant commitment to a longitudinal study. Evaluation Review, 38, 3-28.
Woodcock, A., & Monteith, M.J. (2013). Creating a link with the self to combat implicit bias. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 16, 445-461.
EVAL 320 – Quantitative Analysis & Statistics for Evaluation & Applied Research