Peer Reviewed Research

Collections for the Public Good: A Case Study from Ohio

Diversity

2025

Daniel Kelley offer some answers as to why natural history collections, and specifically geological collections, are important and relevant to society today and to the future of humankind. Authors offer perspective on the ways that geological collections will continue to benefit society at large by providing some illustrative historical examples.

Public Administration Review

2025

Esra Gules-Guctas and colleagues demonstrate how algorithmic decision-making systems used in public benefits determinations can produce outcomes that fail to comply with legal requirements when statutory rules are improperly implemented in code, often due to flawed data, poor design choices, or inherent system limitations.

The Impact of Differential Treatment by Race and Ethnicity on Diet Quality

Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy

2025

Jill Clark and colleagues, using nationally representative data, find that the potential for differential treatment by race and ethnicity in the food retail environment is associated with lower nutritional quality of food acquisitions for Black and Hispanic households.

Implementation Science Communications

2024

Amanda Girth, Rebecca Smith and colleagues analyze the implementation of Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START), finding that collaboration strategies like leadership support, staff co-location, and third-party resource support influence program fidelity depending on local context.

Implementation Science

2024

Amanda Girth and colleagues examine the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (START), identifying seven cross-system collaboration strategies that strengthen staffing, service access, and case planning for families facing child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders.

Self-affirmed for saving energy in the United States: Cognition, intention, and behavior

Energy Research & Social Science

2024

Stephanie Moulton, along with her colleagues, introduces a self-affirmation intervention to test whether writing down personal values can enhance energy-saving attitudes and behaviors, finding it boosts positive cognitive outcomes especially among lower-income individuals, though it does not increase actual energy-saving actions.

Workplace Incivility and Its Impact on Public Employees’ Job Search Behavior

Public Personnel Management

2024

Shahidul Hassan, along with his colleagues, examines how experiences of supervisor and coworker incivility influence public employees’ job satisfaction and prompt job search behavior, especially affecting employees of color more strongly.

Public Management Review

2024

Russell Hassan, along with his colleagues, examines how workplace inclusion can reduce emotional exhaustion and buffer against challenges like incivility and COVID-19–related job changes in local government organizations.

Social Equity of Public Participation Environments

Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration

2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, explores the social equity of public participation environments, emphasizing the importance of inclusive and equitable practices in public administration to ensure fair representation and engagement of marginalized communities.

Journal of Urban Affairs

2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, investigates community members’ perceptions of their engagement with university researchers’ work in their neighborhoods, finding that perceptions are shaped not just by individual experiences but also by broader, enduring narratives that differ by neighborhood and racialized group, highlighting the importance of understanding historical relationships and setting clear expectations in community-engaged research.