Social Justice, Advocacy and Civic Engagement

Avoiding Paradigm Voyeurism and Embracing Intersectionality Stewardship: Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm “From Below”

Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism

2025

In this chapter published in the Oxford Handbook of Engaged Methodological Pluralism, Ange-Marie Hancock traces the impact of three well-established approaches to intersectionality that focus attention on power via a content analysis of 132 articles published in any of nine political science journals.

Housing Policy Debate

2025

In this article, Dr. Stephanie Moulton and a team of housing policy experts draw from recent research to propose changes to the housing finance system that would improve access to mortgages while enabling homeownership stability for low wealth households in the U.S.

Gender, Work, and Organization

2024

Erynn Beaton's qualitative study uses deconstruction to understand how power operates in encounters with sexual harassment within the public workplace.

Implementation Science

2024

This study identifies, describes, and specifies multi-level collaboration strategies used during the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (Ohio START), a cross-system intervention that integrates services across two systems (child welfare and evidence-based behavioral health services) for families that are affected by co-occurring child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders.

Social Equity of Public Participation Environments

Journal of Social Equity and Public Administration

2024

To address the lack of research on institutional barriers to public participation, the paper examines participation environments by studying neighborhood commissions.

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

2024

This study investigates how adversities like racism, loss, and adverse police contact affect psychological and physical health, while examining the moderating roles of economic, social, and spiritual capital and revealing racial differences in health impacts and coping benefits.

Neighbors’ Perceptions of University Engaged ‘Research’

Journal of Planning Education and Research

2024

This study is one of the first to ask community members about their perceptions of university research.

Nonprofit Policy Forum

2024

This research study empirically examines the ways that service-providing nonprofit organizations advocate on behalf of their disadvantaged clients.

Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston

Environmental Science & Technology

2023

Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.

A Framework to Centre Justice in Energy Transition Innovations

Nature Energy

2023

As part of an interdisciplinary team of social scientists, Chris Rea offers a framework to help engineers and practitioners center justice in renewable energy transition innovations.