3D: A Deeper Dive into DAPpers
In Sept, 2020, a group of 15 ASaP graduates and undergraduates began a research initiative with co-investigators Stacey Springs and Rachel Balaban. Stacey is Research Integrity Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Rachel is co-founder of ASaP and creator of DAPpers, Dance for All People.
The group wanted to conduct research on the DAPpers program to better understand how and why this dance program was effective as an intervention for older people with mobility challenges; what impact the intergenerational aspect of the program had on its participants; how DAPpers adapted to the zoom platform during Covid; and why was this adaptation successful. The group decided to call the project 3D—A Deeper Dive into DAPpers.
Over the course of weekly meetings throughout the fall, the group determined they would divide into 3 distinct groups with some members choosing to be in more than one group. These groups are distinct, but accessible to everyone so that each smaller project is co-designed with input by the larger group and shaped continuously by the feedback of the whole group, just executed by smaller groups. Learn more here.
dr stacey springs
Dr. Spring's research focuses on improving the relevance and translation of evidence into policy and practice, reducing research waste through evidence mapping techniques and reducing implicit bias in clinical decision making through novel methods.She holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Economics and Health Policy, completed an AHRQ K12 fellowship in Comparative Effectiveness Research and Patient Centered Outcomes Research at Brown University and a fellowship in Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. She has co-authored evidence synthesis methods guidance on the use of gray literature in scoping and systematic reviews, assessing evidence for complex public health interventions, assessing harms in systematic reviews and improving the uptake of evidence by healthcare systems. At Harvard, she serves as the Research Integrity Officer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where she combines her meta-research expertise and bioethics training to improve the integrity, rigor, reproducibility and ethical conduct of research.