Nicole Nugent, PhD
Technology, Assessment, Data, & Analysis Core Co-Director
Dr. Nugent is a child clinical psychologist at the Bradley Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital Research Center and Director of Resilience and Psychological Services at the Hasbro Pediatric Refugee Clinic. She is the Founding Director of the Rhode Island Resilience Project and an Associate Professor, Research Scholar, in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Nugent has been continuously federally funded for more than a decade and conducts programmatic research that aims to characterize neurobiological and psychosocial influences during high risk periods of stress and transition to develop informed and novel secondary and tertiary interventions.
Dr. Nugent’s research examines adolescent emotion reactivity as it relates to social context in the real world during high-risk transition periods. Dr. Nugent’s expertise in research methods and technology spans laboratory methods (such as behavioral tasks, eye tracking, psychophysiological assessments), biological methods (such as genomics and measures of peripheral hormones), and in vivo ecological assessments (such as ecological momentary assessment, social media methods, audio-sampled social context, and wearable health trackers). Her work often involves integration of multi-method approaches using carefully matched design and statistical analysis.
Dr. Nugent is dedicated to mentorship and has formally and informally served as a mentor and sponsor to dozens of individuals spanning undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty stages of career development.
