Postdoc, Science/Biology Education Research
Joined April 2020
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Gave a talk at ECR PI Meeting on STEM Doctoral Pathways and Trainee Experiences. Thanks for the great turnout! - via #Whova event app
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We talked to Black students because most are contending with at least two cultural identities that are stigmatized in science: Blackness & Christianity. Black graduate students identify as Christian at twice the rate (61%) of any other racial/ethnic group in academic biology.
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In interviews, students described feeling isolated based on both their race and religion. They described concealing their religion around their mentors, peers, and colleagues in biology as a way to avoid negative impressions of their Christianity.
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Despite these feelings of stigmatization, students reconciled their religious and science identities. They still saw their religion as a strength in their scientific pursuits, not a weakness.
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They described drawing on their religious faith as a source of strength to persist through the difficulties of graduate school and doing science. They described religion as enhancing their awe of studying the natural world, not diminishing it.
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These results suggest that conflict between religion and science may contribute to negative experiences of Black students even though they draw on their religion as a source of support and inspiration for doing and learning science.
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Just like many of our participants, we suggest that the culture of biology could be more welcoming to religious students. While there are narrow areas of real conflict between religion & science, there are also many areas of potential compatibility.
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We are incredibly grateful to our participants for being willing to share their vulnerabilities and experiences with us. A special shout out to lead author @AngelaGoogle2 who spear headed this in her last year of grad school and first year of her post-doc!
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Recognizing that potential compatibility could make academic biology more inclusive for students and may ultimately help mitigate tension between science & society about religion.
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Does conflict between religion & science negatively impact students’ experiences? In collab w/ @AngelaGoogle2 @brownell_sara, the SPS lab published a new study in JRST exploring the experiences of Black Christian graduate students studying biology... (1/x) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Newly published lit review paper from the doctoral research of @AngelaGoogle2, co-chaired by @GrantGardner19 and @ASGrinath, focused on undergrad students' approaches to learning biology. Angela is currently a post-doc at @UofSouthAlabama. #mtsusciences
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To improve the experiences of Black Christian grad students in #Biology, our research group is conducting interviews with students who hold these identities.@AngelaGoogle2 will do 1hr interviews with a monetary incentive. Please sign up here and retweet! forms.gle/py5AcuQidftyNpYK6