Dr. Haider Ali Bhatti

Dr. Haider Ali Bhatti is a postdoc at the University of California- Santa Cruz. Ali’s dissertation research focused on assessment in science education, where he looked at a course called “Bioinspired Design” at UC- Berkeley and measured student outcomes related to student success. His current work also focuses on assessment, but in the context of field courses, specifically biology field courses at UC- Santa Cruz and measuring the impact of those courses on student outcomes. In this video, Ali opens up about the passing of his mom during his first year of graduate school, and how he was able to navigate both his PhD and this devastating loss with local support from his friends and grad school community, as well as long-term support from his family back home.