Research Projects
Learn about my previous and ongoing research projects
Areas of Specialty
- Graduate Student Mental Health
- Engineering Culture
- Participatory Action Research Methods
- Mixed Research Methods
On going Projects
Photovoice Project to Examine Engineering Graduate Students' Mental Health Experiences
Collaborators: Dr. Joi Mondisa (PI)
I led the design, implementation, and assessment of a novel photo-elicitation study to better understand the range of engineering graduate students' emotional experiences.
Assessing Engineering Graduate Students' Mental Health
Upcoming project to measure and assess engineering graduate students' mental health experiences experiences. Reach out if you would like to discuss more, and add [Upcoming Project] to the subject line.
Photovoice Project to Examine the Experiences of STEM Graduate Teaching Assistants
Collaborators: Dr. Nandana Weliweriya Liyanage and Dr. Nicholas Young
Developing a study to examine the experiences of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduate teaching assistants, leveraging the photovoice methodology.
Previous Projects
Quantitative Analysis Graduate Student Mental Health Experiences
Collaborators: Dr. Joi Mondisa and Dr. Nicholas (Nick) Young
Using exisitng data from the Healthy Minds Network, I have explored the mental health experiences of graduate students in several projects.
- Exploring the Relationship Between Culture and Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Graduate Students’ Mental Health (Full Paper)
- Validation of an Instrument to Measure Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Graduate Students’ Mental Health (Work in Progress)
- Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Graduate Student Mental Health: Insights from the Healthy Minds Network Dataset
Scoping Literature Review on Engineering Graduate Student's Mental Health Experiences
Collaborators: Dr. Joi Mondisa
I spearheaded a scoping literature review while mentoring two undergraduate students through the data collection. Conducting descriptive and inferential statistical analysis on multi-institutional survey data to explore relevant factors related to mental health outcomes.
Prior Research Collaborations
An Investigation of Mentors' Practices that Help Minoritized Undergraduates Persist In STEM
Collaborators: Dr. Joi Mondisa (PI) , Nagash Clarke
Analyzed and synthesized pilot study interview data on mentoring approaches, grounded and guided by literature in mentoring, intersectionality, and community cultural wealth. Performed inter-rater reliability checks and synthesis of findings.
- Related ASEE Conference Publication
- NSF Award Information: Dr. Mondisa's CAREER: An Investigation of Mentors' Practices that Help Minoritized Undergraduates Persist In STEM
The Nature of Engineering Work: Curricular Messaging and Alignment with Diverse Undergraduate Students’ Values, Interests, and Engineering Intentions
Collaborators: Dr. Shanna Daly (PI), Dr. Lisa Lattuca (Co-PI), Dr. Joi Mondisa (Co-PI), and Dr. Erika Mosyjowski
As a graduate student researcher, I co-developed an interview protocol to understand curricular experiences and alignment with student values, interests, and post-graduate intentions. I coordinated interview data collection (n=60+) using a near-peer mentoring structure. Using best practices in qualitative data analysis, I worked to generate codebook and synthesize initial emergent themes.
- Related ASEE Conference Publication
- NSF Award Information: The Nature of Engineering Work: Curricular Messaging and Alignment with Diverse Undergraduate Students' Values, Interests, and Engineering Intentions
Sisters Rise-Up
Collaborators: Dr. Patricia Garcia, Melissa Perez, Devon Parrell, Dr. Barbara Ericson, and Dr. Joi Mondisa
Performed quantitative analysis on survey data exploring near-peer mentoring relationships for a multi-institutional initiative to mentor women of color and boost their performance in AP exams in CS.