Kaitlin Mallouk
Rowan University, NJ·Education Research
STEM doctoral programs train students mainly to do research. Academic careers also call for teaching, mentoring and service.
- Fields
Education Research
Engineering
- Topics
STEM education research
postdoctoral training
postdoctoral fellowship
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Sep 2027
What they work on
- Build a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, grounded in social learning theory, in which STEM education Fellows take on research, proposal writing and teaching with growing independence.
- Develop Fellows' hidden competencies of thriving, including research fundamentals, disciplinary communication, career growth and mental and social health, through a Community of Practice with faculty and graduate students.
- Evaluate each element of the THRIVE-STEM program to measure its impact and share findings with others who train STEM education researchers.
More about the research
Few programs prepare new scholars for these roles, or for protecting their own mental and social health. This project asks how to prepare STEM education researchers to thrive in their careers.
Why it matters
The program could strengthen the nation's capacity to conduct STEM education research. It does this by preparing early-career scholars with research, communication and well-being skills that support long careers. Its evaluation could give other institutions evidence on how to train and support STEM education researchers.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Charles Colen
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, AR·Education Research
Establish a STEM Academy for Research and Entrepreneurship that combines science and business training and builds faculty skill in high-impact practices that engage students.
Azadeh Bolhari
University of Colorado Boulder, CO·Education Research
Train about 48 STEM faculty and postdocs to approach education research as a design problem, using the ProQual Institute's 4-step program in interpretive research design.
Tera Jordan
Iowa State University, IA·Social Science
Pair early-career faculty and postdoctoral fellows at teaching-intensive institutions with tenured mentors at research-intensive institutions to carry out research on families at key developmental transitions.
The school
Rowan University: 7 labs on PI Pages, $64M a year on research, 69 research doctorates a year.
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