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Mallette publishes on inclusion in engineering research

Boise State associate professor Jennifer Mallette
Jennifer Mallete, Department of Writing Studies, studio portrait by Priscilla Grover

Jennifer Mallette, associate professor and chair in the Department of Writing Studies, recently had an online-first article published in the September issue of Technical Communication Quarterly. Her article, “Listening, Reflecting, and Learning: A Methodology for Engineering Communication Research,” addresses the methodology for inclusion in engineering research and how power dynamics might influence data. This methodology includes four elements: defining the field, accounting for stereotypes, selecting participants to include historically excluded individuals, and accounting for power dynamics between researcher and participants with the goal of better accounting for the experiences of minoritized participants.