Eleanor Anderson, Assistant Professor of Research Practice Partnerships in the School of Education, Ashlyn Salvage (Education Policy PhD student), and Marialexia Zaragoza (Higher Education PhD student) worked to identify organizational structures that make interdisciplinary, practical data science for social justice work challenging to accomplish at Pitt and documented how the DS4SJ team is working to change that. They led the data collection & analysis, including pre/post surveys, interviews with stakeholders, and observations/artifacts from DS4SJ meetings and events. By the end of the term, the research team was well underway with data collection and had started preliminary analysis. They conducted 17 interviews with a variety of project participants, from staff to faculty to external partners, and have collected pre-survey responses and started a preliminary social network analysis of the group prior to participating in the project. Marialexia Zaragoza created a detailed annotated bibliography to provide research context and literature background for this kind of work in higher education that was shared at the last cohort meeting.
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