My research is based on an article by Jessica Pendergrass detailing the precarious plight of black women during pregnancy. Pendergrass’ research explores the disparate outcomes for black women during the childbirth process. According to CDC information in her research, black women are almost four times as likely to die during childbirth than their white counterparts. Pendergrass delves deeply into the… Read more »
Video Link: https://youtu.be/HXYvSWPUK04 Article Link: https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0143622810001141?token=5FC14DEECCAFAD282CE7A95896AE3F5674C22A999FF42595B85C92253FE51CCBC027F1A1AF60CF96044F99BDD0770F1D&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20211003222657 Reference: Evans, J., & Jones, P. (2011). The walking interview: Methodology, mobility and place. Applied Geography, 31(2), 849–858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.09.005 Summary: Researched a unique article on Google Scholar, and stumbled upon a great read. The piece was titled The Walking Interview: Methodology, mobility, and pace, and was written by… Read more »
Presentation1 Abstract: I read Playing but Losing: Women’s sports after Title IX. It first began by speaking on the positive of Title IX in that many women and females across the country were immediately afforded so many athletic opportunities across the country at the high school and collegiate level. The idea of the legislation in the first place was to… Read more »
My presentation is on Anthony Dixon, Michael Martinez and Christina Martin’s research call “Employing social media as a marketing strategy in college sport: An examination of perceived effectiveness in accomplishing organizational objectives.” The research dives into the role of social media in NCAA Division I athletic departments, particularly as it pertains to Facebook and Twitter. It looks into the usage… Read more »
The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) is iconic in Social Psychology. True to its name, The SPE is a laboratory experiment – albeit with human subjects. It is comprised of at least a half dozen methods, almost comprising a ‘methodology’ in and of itself. The SPE subjects were some 20 college-age males (almost exclusively white) residing around Stanford (California) in… Read more »
My scholarship presentation is on Amanda Paule and Todd Gilson research, called “Current Collegiate Experiences of Big-Time, Non-Revenue, NCAA Athletes.” The research examines the benefits and challenges of collegiate athletes from non-revenue sports experiences. An issue that other studies have run into is combining the experiences of both revenue and non-revenue athletes, which makes it difficult to identify the specific… Read more »
