Professor Laura Littlepage from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs joins us to discuss a recently completed study, Homelessness in Greene County, Indiana.

We talk about the unique issues that are brought about by people experiencing homelessness in rural areas, from a lack of services, the difficulties involved with helping those in need in a geographically broad area, simply coming to understand the extent of the population impacted, and much more.  

You can read the paper here. 

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2022/26798/Greene%20County%20Homelessness%20Report.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

For more on the Rural Center of Engagement, visit here:

https://rural.indiana.edu/

On Topic with IU -- Rural homelessness in Indiana

Researchers at Indiana University's School of Social Work are using machine learning to study thousands of cases of adults -- using anonymized data from the Adult Needs and Strengths Assessment -- to help those coping with mental health issues, identify intersections mental health illness and suicidal ideation and develop a suicidal prevention/recovery model within the mental health system.

Drs. Betty Walton and Saahoon Hong join us to talk about their innovative approach.



Dr. Walton's bio: https://socialwork.iu.edu/FacultyAndStaff/profile.php?id=Walton_Betty_beawalto

Dr. Hong's bio: https://socialwork.iu.edu/faculty-staff/profile/hong_saahoon/

You can find more about their work here: https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/26724/Hong2021Examining-the-intersection.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

On Topic with IU -- Studying mental illness and suicidal risk with machine learning

IU social psychology doctoral student Tessa Benson-Greenwald joins us to discuss new research examining the perception of motives of scientists. 

She talks about her team's new study, the risk we face when public trust in science ebbs, how the general public perceives the work of scientists, and also Young Frankenstein.

You can find her latest study: 
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01461672211064456

Public Trust in Science -- On Topic with IU, with guest Tessa Benson-Greenwald

Dr. Adam Roth is part of a research team studying cognitive function, decline and the personal, face-to-face networks people enjoy. 

There remain many uncertainties to explore in this growing area of research, but Roth says the data suggests greater diversity of our social networks serve us well as we age. Listen to this conversation to get more insights from the department of sociology research fellow and member of the Indiana University Network Science Institute.

Read his study here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/19485565.2022.2052711?needAccess=true

More on Dr. Roth: https://www.adamroth.org/

On Topic With IU - Cognitive function in later life with Dr. Adam Roth

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