Toward the end of the summer, Lindsay Miller hosted me on her podcast, The Stress Nanny, to talk about Gilligan and Nodding's Ethic of Care. The conversation strayed, as my conversations inevitably do nowadays, to empathy. Although Lindsay doesn't know this, her podcast invitation was the reason I revisited the Ethic of Care literature to …
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With the help of funding from American Institutes for Research (AIR), I've spent much of the past three years developing and validating an Approach to Competency-based Curriculum Design (DE-CBE). The DA-CBE is a model that seeks to rebuild the competency-based curriculum design process on a foundation of inclusion with the goal of working to recreate …
No one was more excited than I was when APA announced that they'd be releasing a 7th edition Fall 2019. As my students know, I love the simple beauty of a well-formatted APA manuscript (not the least of which because the dread font Calibri was forbidden—more about that later). As I read the 7th edition …
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While the 2016 and 2017 academic year was personally traumatic because of the presidential election, it was also a time of upheaval for many institutions of higher education. As a result, many institutions underwent budget cuts, which is a perpetual condition at many institutions and in the field of higher education in general. The impetus …
One of the ways I have been preparing for the book talks and webinars where I talk about my research has been writing these Behind the Scenes posts. Although much of what I write here is for an audience who might be new to the publication process and working toward their first publications—writing about the …
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I'm sharing the text (listen to audio including Q&A in the link at the bottom of the page) of the book talk I gave at the Auburn Women’s Studies Speaker series today. Please note that components of the talk include portions of other posts and excerpts from the book. Hello. Thank you for coming this afternoon …
In the last post, I described the process of turning my Master's thesis research into a successful book proposal. In this essay, I'll discuss the process of writing the book, Polygamy, Women, and Higher Education, beginning with the process of reanalyzing the data through a new theoretical lens, revisiting the literature to make recommendations for …
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The research that resulted in my first book Polygamy, Women, and Higher Education: Life After Mormon Fundamentalism began as my Master's thesis project in Adult Education. The project was my first experience with research, and I beyond enjoyed the process (thankfully, given that I'd spent my entire life wanting to be a professor without knowing exactly …
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The first article to be published from my dissertation was Gendered Student Ideals in STEM in Higher Education (in the Journal of Women and Gender - formerly called the NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education). While I eventually published three manuscripts from my dissertation research, the findings I reported on in this manuscript were, if …
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In the first Behind the Scenes essay, I briefly discussed the alt-right response to my first publication, a feminist critical discourse analysis of STEM higher education syllabi. In this essay, I'll discuss more about those responses, my critical analysis of them, and the resulting publication Digital Media Responses to a Feminist Scholarly Article: A Critical …
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Laura Parson, PhD 