Spenser Wright

Headshot of Spenser Wright
Graduate Student • Fall 2020 Cohort
Health and Behavioral Sciences
spenser.wright@ucdenver.edu

Spenser is a PhD student in the Health and Behavioral Sciences program at CU Denver and a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her primary research interests include eating disorders, involuntary mental health treatment, medical and legal decision making, netnography, medical ethics, and mixed methods. She has previously worked in clinical eating disorder research, assistive technology research, and as a counselor in residential and inpatient eating disorder treatment settings.

BA, Anthropology and Women’s Studies, Tufts University

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2021-present)

Moura I, Wright S, Caplan R, Nicholson J. (2022, March 17). WorkingWell 2.0: Assistive Technology for Autistic Workers [conference presentation]. CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, Anaheim, CA, United States.

Hasson C, Yoder G, Wright S, Jaime C. (2022, October 18-27). Dating in the Time of COVID-19: An Exploratory Study. APHA Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, United States

Nicholson, J., Wright, S.M., & Carlisle, A.M. (2018). WorkingWell User Guide. BMJ Open, 8:e019936. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019936. Supplementary file 1: bmjopen-2017-019936-SP1.pdf Nicholson J, Wright SM, Carlisle AM, Sweeney MAG, McHugo GJ. (2018). The WorkingWell Smartphone App for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses: A Proof-of-Concept, Mixed Methods Feasibility Study. JMIR Ment Health 2018;5(4):e11383. doi: 10.2196/11383

Nicholson J, Wright SM, Carlisle AM. (2018). Pre-post, mixed-methods feasibility study of the WorkingWell mobile support tool for individuals with serious mental illness in the USA: a pilot study protocol. BMJ Open, 2018;8:e019936. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019936

Fazeli PK, Lun M, Kim SM, Bredella MA, Wright S, Zhang Y, Lee H, Catana C, Klibanski A, Patwari P, Steinhauser ML. (2015). FGF21 and the late adaptive response to starvation in humans. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 125(12):4601–4611. doi:10.1172/JCI83349