UROP Project

***Exploring the Impact of Social Justice Research Projects Conducted by Emerging Scholars

Social justice, educational research, educational psychology, community-engaged research, social-emotional learning, culturally-responsive practices

Research Mentor: Betsy Staudt Willet, she/her
Department, College, Affiliation: PURPOSE Research Training Fellowship, Anne's College Office of Research, Education, Health, and Human Sciences
Contact Email: betsy.staudtwillet@fsu.edu
Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from mentor):
Research Assistant Supervisor Email:
Faculty Collaborators: Dr. Jeannine Turner she/her
Faculty Collaborators Email: jeturner@fsu.edu

Looking for Research Assistants: Yes
Number of Research Assistants: 2
Relevant Majors: Open to all majors. Interest in service-learning, social justice, or educational inequities preferred
Project Location: On FSU Main Campus
Research Assistant Transportation Required:
Remote or In-person: Partially Remote
Approximate Weekly Hours: 10, Flexible schedule (Combination of business and outside of business. TBD between student and research mentor.)
Roundtable Times and Zoom Link:

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

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)