On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Laurie Juranek, an Assistant Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. Dr. Juranek studies what the chemistry of seawater tells us about life and death in the ocean. Her research takes her from the warm, aquamarine waters off of Hawaii to the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. When not doing science, she enjoys vegetable gardening, cooking, an d weightlifting. Segment 1 : Life and Death in the Ocean [00:00-10:09]...
Dec 02, 2019•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Take a listen to our December 2019 preview clips! To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily r...
Dec 02, 2019•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Julie J. Park, an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research addresses how race, religion, and social class affect diversity and equity in higher education, including the diverse experiences of Asian American college students. Her new book Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data (Harvard Education Press) uses social science data to challenge misconceptions surrounding race in college admissions and campus c...
Nov 25, 2019•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-4:15]: Dane’s Background and Professional Pathway To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, post a comment below or contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Re...
Nov 18, 2019•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Mary Ellen is joined by Dane Skinner, a Research Analyst for Ecampus at Oregon State University. Prior to this position, Dane worked as a Data Scientist for the Oregon State Lottery. He completed his Masters in Math and Masters in Statistics at Oregon State University in 2016. When he's not working through data problems, he enjoys spending time with family, running through the trails of the MacDonald Forest, and building furniture. Segment 1 : Forecasting with Data [00:00-15:31]...
Nov 18, 2019•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Natalie Pope, the Otis Endowed Professor in Gerontology & Intergenerational Social Work and Director of Doctoral programs in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky. In 2010 Dr. Pope received her Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of Georgia with a concentration on qualitative research methods. Dr. Pope’s program of research broadly focuses on older adults and their family caregivers. Specifically, her scholarship aims to address the f...
Nov 11, 2019•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Qwo-Li Driskill, a (non-citizen) Cherokee Two-Spirit and Queer writer, activist, and performer also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ascent. They are the author of Walking with Ghosts: Poems (Salt Publishing, 2005) and the co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (University of Arizona, 2011) and Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions is Theory, Politics, and Literature (University of Arizona, 2011). Their boo...
Nov 04, 2019•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Take a listen to our November 2019 preview clips! To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily r...
Nov 04, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-2:29]: The Open Higher Ed Learning & Development Digital Library In this segment, the following resources are mentioned: Open Higher Ed Learning & Development Digital Library Laura's blog post about this project To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voice...
Oct 28, 2019•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Laura Pasquini, a seasoned learning designer, curious learner, and active investigator. As an early career scholar-practitioner, Dr. Pasquini’s teaching and research explores mentoring experiences, networked practices, online communities, student support/advising, digital professional identity development, and open online learning environments. She consults with various education institutions, non-profit and corporate associations on the stewardship of technol...
Oct 28, 2019•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Margy Thomas, the founder of ScholarShape and the creator of the Build Your Story-Argument program. Margy founded ScholarShape in 2013 as an academic editing and writing consultation service, and through her years of helping hundreds of scholars develop their book and article manuscripts, she synthesized a unique framework for manuscript construction that is now the basis of the Build Your Story-Argument program where scholars hone their own Story-Argument...
Oct 21, 2019•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Sharla Berry, an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at California Lutheran University. Her research explores education technology in K-20 contexts. She has published several peer-reviewed articles exploring how students and faculty cultivate learning communities in online programs. Dr. Berry also does research on the relationship between technology and college access. She is the author of Degree for Free: How to Save Time and Money on ...
Oct 14, 2019•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Emily Contois is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The University of Tulsa. Her book, Diners, Dudes, and Diets: Gender and Power in U.S. Food Culture and Media , will be published with The University of North Carolina Press in 2020. It explores how the food, advertising, and media industries used the dude as a gender discourse to create male consumers for products socially perceived as feminine, such as cookbooks, diet sodas, and dieting programs. Sh...
Oct 07, 2019•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Take a listen to our October 2019 preview clips! To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily re...
Oct 07, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-04:49]: Stephania's Educational Background and Professional Pathway To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research...
Sep 30, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, guest host Dr. Mary Ellen Dello Stritto is joined by Stephania Fregosi, Sustainability Analyst at Portland Community College. In her role, Stephania completes greenhouse gas inventories, the Sustainability, Tracking, and Rating system report, does research, and provides other support for the college. She earned her Master’s Degree in Environmental Law from the Vermont Law School and her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College. Stephania has worked in a var...
Sep 30, 2019•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bonus Clip #1 [00:00-04:34]: Writing Collaboratively To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessaril...
Sep 23, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Nicola Ulibarri, an assistant professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, where she leads an interdisciplinary research group that studies water and infrastructure management. Her group combines approaches from environmental planning, public administration, and water resource engineering to improve the interactions between people, infrastructure, and the environment. In 2010, while doing her PhD at Stanford, Nicol...
Sep 23, 2019•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Dr. Katie Linder, Director of Research for Oregon State University Ecampus, is joined by the Ecampus Research Unit team to discuss logistics and tools used to conduct team-based research projects. Segment 1 : The Logistics of Team-based Research [00:00-19:18] In this first segment, the ECRU team shares about their approaches to team-based research. In this segment, the following resources are mentioned: The Ecampus research unit team RIA episodes with guest host, Dr. Mary Ellen ...
Sep 16, 2019•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Larry Rosen, Professor Emeritus and past chair of the psychology department at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is a research psychologist recognized as an international expert in the "Psychology of Technology." Over the past 30-plus years, Dr. Rosen and his colleagues have examined reactions to technology among more than 100,000 people in the United States and in 22 other countries. His latest book, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a...
Sep 09, 2019•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Helen Kara, Director of We Research It Ltd, who has been an independent researcher since 1999 and writes and teaches on research methods. She is the author of Creative Research Methods in the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide (Policy Press, 2015). She is not, and never has been, an academic, though she has learned to speak the language. In 2015 Helen was the first fully independent researcher to be conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. ...
Sep 02, 2019•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Take a listen to our September 2019 preview clips! To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily ...
Sep 02, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bonus Clip [00:00-04:10]: Collaborative Research In this bonus clip, the following resources are mentioned: Trello Google Docs To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The vie...
Aug 26, 2019•4 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Paul William Eaton, an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Sam Houston State University. Paul’s research interests include inquiries into digital technologies in education and human identity~subjectification~becoming; digital pedagogy and learning; postqualitative, complexivist, and posthumanist inquiry; and curriculum theorizing-philosophy in the realms of postsecondary education and student affairs. He serves as Assistant Editor for the High...
Aug 26, 2019•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Juliet Watson, the Deputy Director of the Unison Housing Research Lab and the Senior Lecturer in Homelessness in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Australia. Juliet has extensive research, teaching, and practice experience in the areas of homelessness, gender-based violence, and youth. Her doctoral thesis won the biennial Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association PhD Award in 2016. This research formed the basis f...
Aug 19, 2019•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bonus Clip [00:00-04:50]: Jay's Research Influences In this bonus clip, the following resources are mentioned: Rathje, W., & Murphy, C. (2001). Rubbish! The archaeology of garbage . Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press. To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail :...
Aug 12, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Jay Le Roux Dillon, a social scientist and founder of Alumni Identity Fundraising Consultants. His research and consulting practice help institutions identify ideal alumni donors through the lens of social psychology and data science. Dr. Dillon was previously director of alumni engagement at the University of San Francisco and executive director of alumni strategic initiatives at UCLA. He is dedicated to improving philanthropy in order to bring social jus...
Aug 12, 2019•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Sarah Vojnovich, a Master's student in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Oregon State Unviersity. Sarah carries out infection studies with a bacterium, called Vibrio coralliilyticus, that infects corals and causes tissue necrosis by the release of a toxin. Current studies are typically done on coral fragments taken from the natural environment, but in order to help reduce wild coral takes, Sarah's research looks at the use of using anemones, Aiptasia pa...
Aug 05, 2019•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Take a listen to our August 2019 preview clips! To share feedback about this podcast episode, ask questions that could be featured in a future episode, or to share research-related resources, contact the “Research in Action” podcast: Twitter : @ RIA_podcast or # RIA_podcast Email : riapodcast@oregonstate.edu Voicemail : 541-737-1111 If you listen to the podcast via iTunes , please consider leaving us a review. The views expressed by guests on the Research in Action podcast do not necessarily rep...
Aug 05, 2019•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, Katie is joined by Dr. Ronald Kander, Founding Dean of Kanbar College of Design, Engineering & Commerce and Associate Provost for Applied Research at Jefferson (Philadelphia University & Thomas Jefferson University). Previously, founding Director of the School of Engineering at James Madison U, Professor of Materials Science at Virginia Tech, Senior Engineer of Polymer Physics at Dupont. BS (Carnegie Mellon) & PhD (U of Delaware) in Chemical Engineering. Segment 1 : Research Ret...
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