I am conducting ongoing research on how instructors experience faculty development. My dissertation focused on participant experiences with and reflections on a specific faculty development opportunity, and explored their decision-making as they considered whether – and what – to implement in their teaching practices.
Additional research explored how participants used faculty learning communities to engage in exploring equity-focused teaching, culminating in a chapter, “Cross-Institutional FLCs That Support Equity-Based Pedagogy and Student Success” in Faculty Learning Communities: Working Towards a More Equitable, Just, and Antiracist Future in Higher Education.
A subsequent study focused on the experiences of faculty developers coming together during the COVID era to create a collaborative group where they found support and shared resources. Read the article here: Finding community through an academic development collective: Overcoming constraints through strategic collaboration.
Currently, I’m investigating participation in faculty/professional learning communities to explore how instructors experience these communities, and what sorts of impacts they see on their teaching practices.