{"id":8720,"date":"2017-07-04T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T18:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:03:33","slug":"dr-courtney-humeny-graduated-ph-d-cognitive-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2017\/dr-courtney-humeny-graduated-ph-d-cognitive-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Courtney Humeny Graduated with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Dr. Courtney Humeny Graduated with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Dr-Humeny-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Dr-Humeny-3.jpg 700w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Dr-Humeny-3-160x114.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Dr-Humeny-3-240x171.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Dr-Humeny-3-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Dr-Humeny-3-360x257.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dr. Humeny (Second from the left) with her partner, father, and brother (Left to right).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Courtney Humeny Graduated with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science last month, 16th June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Dr. Humeny\u2019s Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Dr. John Logan. Dr. Humeny shared her experience in the program:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u201cMy biggest take away from the program was its freedom and flexibility. I was able to select my thesis topic on an area I am passionate about and fit into my career goals. My thesis utilized multivariate statistics and qualitative analysis to provide a conceptual investigation of the neural underpinnings of recovery (e.g., PTSD, resilience) from a romantic relationship with a psychopathic abuser.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">The program taught me how to be creative in designing a \u201ccognitive science\u201d project, by delving into frameworks from philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, clinical\/health\/forensic psychology, feminist theory, and social cognition. With the support of the department I was able to utilize opportunities to be a Visiting Student at the University of Edinburgh, to complete summer programs at The Netherlands School for Practical Philosophy and University of Oxford, and gain research experience through my Methodology Rotations at correctional facilities and the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. With research experience and a strong theoretical foundation I am able to be competitive in the job market. During my degree I was employed at the Department of National Defence, conducting research on ill or injured military members and the effects of military life on families. Upon graduation I secured employment as a research consultant and full-time statistical analyst at two First Nations organizations to examine the transgenerational effects of trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">The Cognitive Science PhD program is unique and provided me with a wide skillset to be a versatile and interdisciplinary researcher with strong analytical skills to see the \u201cbigger picture\u201d of issues I will continue to research during my career.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Humeny (Second from the left) with her partner, father, and brother (Left to right). Dr. Courtney Humeny Graduated with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science last month, 16th June. Dr. Humeny\u2019s Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Dr. John Logan. Dr. Humeny shared her experience in the program: \u201cMy biggest take away from the program was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-convocation-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16633,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions\/16633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}