A5009891520- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Empathy and Medical Education
Michigan State University
2019-2024
Office of Education
2022
High Point University
2016-2017
As lockdown and school closure policies were implemented in response to the coronavirus, federal government provided funding relaxed its rules support emergency food provision, but not guidance on best practices for effectiveness. Accordingly, cities developed a diverse patchwork of feeding programs. This article uses qualitative data provide insight into provision five serve children families. Based our analysis, we find that effectiveness local approaches appears depend on: (i)...
In this paper, I examine the disconnect between government and NGO responses to Cyclone Pam, previous healthy food initiatives in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Decades of nutrition education programs across Vanuatu have urged families limit their consumption tinned meat imported favour locally grown fruits vegetables. These dietary guidelines call on watch order raise children avoid serious non-communicable diseases such as hypertension diabetes. spite these guidelines, aid offered after which many...
In this paper we present an overview of future-oriented research in sustainability science and place-based offer a tool for researchers community partners to use guide participatory scenario planning activities that result actionable steps toward achieving sustainable futures. Within community-engaged projects, methods, such as visioning planning, have been increasingly utilized approach integrate diverse voices foster positive change. However, emerging literature contains some overlapping...
Women medical students experience tensions as they learn to become doctors. These reflect the cultural world of school and clinical medicine, spaces that are highly gendered, racist exclusionary. This study describes how women envisioning themselves future doctors during their first 2 years while experiencing these tensions.Using Figured Worlds theory, this qualitative focused on four participants from a larger longitudinal study. Each participant was interviewed times over 2-year period...
This paper describes the participatory modeling experiences of five discrete teams across U.S. working to develop models food systems identify leverage points and policies induce system transformation. Collaboration between academic community partners within these individual processes enables address complexity, integrate scientific evidence local knowledge into models, while improving a model's credibility accessibility for policymaking. While tools facilitating are becoming more available,...
This article describes how the private problem of food insecurity in Vanuatu becomes public when children seek community feasts to cope with inadequate family resources. Ethnographic data reveal that members, particularly women who serve at feasts, are increasingly aware rise hungry attending feasts. is subject gossip, as eating a way inadvertently pain and familial struggle. Data illustrate negotiating space which displayed communicated critical lens for understanding behaviors shape...
Women medical students experience unique stressors and challenges during school related to inherent structural androcentric norms. Through a longitudinal qualitative study of 17 women in their first two years school, we sought investigate how they navigated experience. We used critical lens narrative inquiry understand experiences within the powerful marginalizing culture school. Our participants identified essential support groups: those relationships made within, sustained outside, These...
Visual-narrative elicitation, a process combining photo elicitation and pile sorting in applied medical anthropology, sheds light on food consumption patterns urban areas of Vanuatu where childhood malnutrition is persistent problem. Groups participants took photographs the foods they feed their children, resources barriers encounter accessing foodstuffs. This revealed how imported local are assigned value as "good" or "bad" when contributing to dietary diversity creating appropriate meals...
The globalized and interconnected nature of food systems provides many examples panarchies within social-ecological systems. However, few are analyzed using panarchy theory, particularly urban systems, or in a comparative manner. We aimed to broaden the examination cross-scale dynamics by applying theory through study three systems: Flint, Michigan, Cleveland, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. These all post-industrial Rust Belt cities that have experienced similar economic downturns but...
Throughout the United States, urban food systems are in suboptimal states that not operating efficiently or equitably and thus do support security for all. Creating transformation to a more sustainable desirable state first requires acknowledging different values of diverse groups within city. Then these can be used explore pluralistic pathways futures maximize benefits multiple stakeholders. We demonstrate how integrating visioning Q-methodology achieve an inclusive understanding as...
The success of responsible research and innovation (RRI) work is as much about the process partnership it products outcomes. In this paper, we present lessons learned from first three years a participatory modeling (PM) project based on RRI principles focused transformation food system in Flint, Michigan through identification leverage points. Participatory type community engaged that seeks to build representations collaboratively between researchers, decision-makers, members. We discuss...
The circulation of children among family members can have a dramatic impact on child health, contributing to the pervasive problem childhood under-nutrition Vanuatu faces. Kin, particularly elders, great influence decisions regarding infant and feeding practices, as well with whom resides. Intervening kin dictate physical relocation through informal systems adoption for varying lengths time. impacts this widespread practice has health are often overlooked in studies malnutrition public...
Adoption, fosterage, and child exchange constitute major themes in the literature on Pacific Island societies. However, a world where movement of people has both intensified become more complex challenges existing approaches to circulation children. We examine diverse conditions contemporary circulation: shift from rural urban international migration; capacities kinship systems adapt this change; significance children's experiences assessing consequences global circulation. Spanning Oceania,...
Developing system understanding and testing interventions are critical steps to addressing wicked problems. Fuzzy cognitive mapping (FCM) can be a useful participatory modeling tool that enables aggregation of individual perspectives build models represent groups’ collective intelligence (CI). However, current FCM methodologies for creating CI have rarely been tested compared. We conducted 51 interviews with local experts in the Flint, MI food map their mental about how different sectors...
Purpose The purposes of this paper are to: (1) characterize farmers’ market manager and vendor perceptions the economic, social environmental impact markets have on their local communities; (2) how those impacts tracked communicated to actors community. Design/methodology/approach Twenty-nine semistructured interviews were conducted with managers vendors across four within Michigan. coded analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings Managers report economic benefits associated presence a...
Abstract Western voices from publications predominantly in English dominate conversations surrounding knowledge production, consumption, and dissemination, which turn shapes social policy. To achieve feminist epistemological frameworks that many academic espouse, we call for are accessible equitable not only academics, but also community partners activists. ensure a role diverse voices, must remove language barriers prioritize viewpoints. Feminist scholars poised to advance the contemporary...
Medical education's growing body of knowledge invites deeper investigation into ways theoretical, methodological and epistemological orientations guide research design. The preceding articles presented one important approach: using theory as method. This approach involves to design by choosing a theory, developing constructs from that mapping these concepts choices. In paper 1, we (McOwen colleagues) demonstrated how map Figured Worlds Theory (FWT) onto methods means placing study in complex...