UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1133

Research Mentor Information
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Primary Research Mentor Name: Betsy Staudt Willet
Research Mentor Preferred Pronouns: she/her
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Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated): betsy.staudtwillet@fsu.edu
Position Title: FSU Staff/Campus Partner
FSU College (if applicable): Education, Health, and Human Sciences
FSU Department or Non-FSU Organization Affiliation: PURPOSE Research Training Fellowship, Anne's College Office of Research
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Additional Research Mentor(s)
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Name of Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) (if applicable): Jeannine Turner
Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) Preferred Pronouns: she/her
Other Faculty/Collaborator(s) Preferred Honorific?: Dr.
Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated): jeturner@fsu.edu

Overall Project Details
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Title of the Project: Exploring the Impact of Social Justice Research Projects Conducted by Emerging Scholars
Project Keywords: Social justice, educational research, educational psychology, community-engaged research, social-emotional learning, culturally-responsive practices
Are you currently looking for research assistants?: Yes
Number of Research Assistants Needed : 2
Relevant Research Assistant Major(s):
Open to all majors. Interest in service-learning, social justice, or educational inequities preferred

Project Location:: On FSU Main Campus
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Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s):: Partially Remote
Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work?: 10
Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work?: Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Overall Research Project Description:
For eight years, students at FAMU and FSU have participated in the PURPOSE Research Training Fellowship and conducted their first independent research projects in education and psychology. This UROP project will analyze the fellowship products, focusing on the research posters created and presented by the PURPOSE fellows. The PURPOSE leadership team has a good understanding of what the students learn from the fellowship experience and how it relates to their graduate school progress, but we haven't explored the scope and impact of the students' research. We want to understand the research output from PURPOSE, what our students are motivated to study, and the various ways the student research has touched the real world: How many classrooms have been involved? How many summer campers have been served by PURPOSE students? What types of educational problems are emerging scholars excited to study? Join this UROP team to study the themes of the PURPOSE research projects, the range of educational settings we served, and the types of educational and psychological studies conducted. This project will be a mix of numbers work and thematic analysis. 

Research Tasks:
1) Literature review: read about the PURPOSE Research Training Fellowship and similar programs, read about artifact/product analysis and procedures
2) Co-create product analysis research procedures for PURPOSE
3) Data analysis: cataloging products, documenting product features, compiling categories, analyzing themes within and across categories, documenting differences between the different fellowship cohorts.
 

Skills that research assistant(s) may need::
Communicate and coordinate through email (required)
Basic cloud document skills (OneDrive or Google Drive) (required)
Ability to take initiative and ask questions (required)


Mentoring Philosophy:
My mentoring philosophy is to provide an experience that is comfortable enough for you to see through to the end and challenging enough that you will grow in skills, knowledge, and confidence. I cultivate a relationship with my mentees, seeking to understand them and their goals on their own terms. I have a collaborative, strengths-based approach - I like to adapt plans according to my team members' interests, cultures, and needs. Being adaptive and responsive means I communicate regularly and with clarity about expectations. In my experience, being attentive to the learning and development process enables progress toward project goals. While healthy mentorship relationships take time, they are worthwhile and more productive, leading to personal/professional growth and project completion. 

Please provide a link to your publications, a video clip, or a website for your research project (if applicable):: https://purposetraining.create.fsu.edu/
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This project will have applications beyond academic research: 1) add to the PURPOSE line of research, 2) support funding and grant requests, and 3) contribute to the design of new training programs.


Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable?: Yes
Roundtable times and Zoom links:
Tuesday, September 2 from 12:00-12:30pm (https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96269507681)
Tuesday, September 2 from 12:30-1:30pm (https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96269507681)
Tuesday, September 2 from 1:00-1:30pm (https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96269507681)
Recorded Roundtable: https://fsu.zoom.us/rec/share/tswJL_mdkohMlEtplT4UoQLC56zXRAlmF0BAtAffU8cZR09wkDhJgw3xy4MO7wGM.1NLRlOZUOC-8ElUU?startTime=1756832972000

Roundtable Info:
- Day: Tuesday, September 2
  Start Time: 12:30
  End Time: 12:30
  Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/96269507681

UROP Program Elements
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Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication: Yes
UROP Performance Evaluation: Yes
Materials Grant: Yes
UROP Poster Presentation: Yes

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Year: 2025
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