This panel discussion features community-engaged professionals from a variety of organizations who are uncovering the legacies of these discriminatory practices and seeking a more socially just future for the people and places that have been harmed.
diversity and inclusion
Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Dr. Nicholas Bowman (Zoom)
Title: University Rankings Systems and Their Effects on Admissions Indicators and Reputation
Dr. Nicholas Bowman
Nicholas A. Bowman is the Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Studies, senior research fellow in the Public Policy Center, and director of the Center for Research on Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. His scholarship uses a social psychological lens to explore key topics in higher education, including student success, diversity and equity, rankings, admissions, and quantitative methodology. Bowman’s work has appeared (or is currently in press) in 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, over 25 book chapters, and nearly 150 peer-reviewed conference presentations. This research has been published in outlets such as Review of Educational Research, Educational Researcher, Sociology of Education, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Science Advances. Bowman received the Promising Scholar/Early Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education in 2012, and he was the University of Iowa Scholar of the Year in 2018.
Learn more about Dr. Bowman by visiting his webpage, view his Curriculum Vitae, and the Iowa University Public Policy Center.
Registration for Dr. Bowman’s talk is now open! Please click the link here to register!
QualLab Lunch: Centering Black Women in Research: A Black Feminist Autoethnography Journey (Zoom)
Featuring Dr. Kaleb Briscoe, Mississippi State University
As a theory and method, Black women’s experiences have long been included in literature. Still, others continue to dispute its applicability, particularly in social science, from a methodological standpoint. In this conversation, In this QualLab Lunch, Dr. Kaleb Briscoe from Mississippi State University will explain why methodologists should center Black women’s experiences in the research process, including the current tensions and realities that arise when employing Black feminist autoethnography. In addition, this presentation will provide recommendations for individuals who seek to implement Black women’s autoethnography in their scholarship.
QMC Spring 2023 Speaker Series: Presentation by Paul Wesson (Zoom)
Friday, February 24, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Paul Wesson, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Paul Wesson
Dr. Paul Wesson is an epidemiologist focused on quantifying the health burdens of (and disparities related to) hard-to-reach and socially marginalized populations, particularly as they relate to infectious diseases. His research expertise includes developing and using data driven methods for sampling hard-to-reach and “hidden” populations, population size estimation methods, and using advanced epidemiologic and statistical techniques to study the social determinants of health. He sees his research as existing at the nexus of infectious disease, data science, and social epidemiology; as such, he incorporates theories and principles from social epidemiology to inform and guide his study designs and analyses (e.g. intersectionality, minority stress theory).
Specifically, as an HIV researcher, his research agenda relates to the unique challenges of sampling hard-to-reach populations for HIV surveillance, and leverages information from the sampling process (and survey data) to generate estimates of the population size. Valid estimates of the population size are a key component of biomedical informatics and epidemiological analyses (providing a denominator for the population at risk) and inform how and where limited public health resources should be targeted. As part of his research on population size estimation, he has also developed novel population size estimation methods to correct for known biases. Additionally, Paul is interested in extending his research to include geo-spatial analysis and clinical data to further examine contextual and structural determinants of disparities in health outcomes.
QualLab Lunch: Not Weeping, Sharpening my Oyster Knife: Demarginalizing Intellectual Activism
Featuring Dr. Venus Evans-Winters, The Ohio State University
In this discussion, Dr. Evans-Winters will discuss the current tensions in education and its effects on the emotionality and mental well-being of faculty who exist at the intersections of race, gender, and power. In particular, public discourse and organized attempts to marginalize racial and gender justice is a threat to educational research and discourse that may serve as a mediating factor to counter cultural imperialism. The presentation calls for meaningful engagement in intellectual activism as radical subjectivity and an ethic of care.
Diversity and STEM: New Data from NCSES Webinar
Join an interactive presentation by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the report, Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities, which will be released on January 30.
As an official federal statistical agency, NCSES is the nation’s leading provider of data on the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. The Diversity and STEM report, published every two years by NCSES, is the federal government’s most comprehensive collection of data on diversity trends in STEM.
Together, we will explore the newly published report and take questions from attendees on these important data.
Presenters:
• Elizabeth Grieco, Director, Science, Technology and Innovation Public Information (NCSES); Report Author
• Steven Deitz, Interdisciplinary Science Analyst (NCSES); Report Author
• Alicia J. Knoedler, Office Head, Office of Integrative Activities (NSF)
With special comments from:
• Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation
• Emilda B. Rivers, Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Moderator: Amy Burke, Director, Science, Technology and Innovation Analysis (NCSES); Report Author
Diversity and STEM: New Data from NCSES Webinar
Join an interactive presentation by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the report, Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities, which will be released on January 30.
As an official federal statistical agency, NCSES is the nation’s leading provider of data on the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. The Diversity and STEM report, published every two years by NCSES, is the federal government’s most comprehensive collection of data on diversity trends in STEM.
Together, we will explore the newly published report and take questions from attendees on these important data.
Presenters:
• Elizabeth Grieco, Director, Science, Technology and Innovation Public Information (NCSES); Report Author
• Steven Deitz, Interdisciplinary Science Analyst (NCSES); Report Author
• Alicia J. Knoedler, Office Head, Office of Integrative Activities (NSF)
With special comments from:
• Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, National Science Foundation
• Emilda B. Rivers, Director, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
Moderator: Amy Burke, Director, Science, Technology and Innovation Analysis (NCSES); Report Author
Race and Racial Equity in Early Childhood Development
Join us for a special March research forum focused on racial equity and early childhood development hosted by the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
Dr. Clemens Noelke, research director for the diversitydatakids.org project at the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy at Brandeis University, will discuss neighborhood opportunity mapping, specifically the Child Opportunity Index, and how mapping tools can help visualize racial inequities in children’s healthy development.
Dr. Marisha Humphries, associate professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago, will discuss her work that aims to use an understanding of African American children’s normative and prosocial development to create culturally and developmentally appropriate school-based behavior promotion programs.
*Live captioning will be provided. If you would like to request other accommodations, please contact Cathy Kupsky (kupsky.3@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
What does recess look like for children with significant disabilities?: Zoom
If you ask an elementary school child to identify their favorite time of the school day, chances are their answer will be recess. Not only is recess a popular time, but it also creates a natural opportunity to develop social competence and build social connections. However, the experiences of students with significant disabilities at recess have not been well studied. Dr. Matthew Brock will discuss recent research using observations of social and play behavior at recess for elementary students with significant disabilities. His research team also interviewed students to understand social networks. These data were then compared to data of typically developing peers. Dr. Brock will share the findings on differences between students with and without significant disabilities as well as group variability.
Spring 2023 By the Numbers: Race and College Applications Webinar
Our first By the Numbers event, titled “By the Numbers: Race and College Applications,” will feature Dr. Brian Heseung Kim, Senior Data Scientist at the Common Application, Inc., who will provide a brief presentation on his team’s recent report regarding college application race and ethnicity. We ask that participants read or familiarize themselves with the report prior to attending the event, and come prepared with questions for Dr. Kim. The discussion is not about just sharing an opinion, but voicing an opinion based on facts, i.e., by the numbers.
