Research Interests

My research focuses on innovative curriculum design and professional development with a particular emphasis on experiential education and service-learning. I am interested in the effects and impacts that educational experiences have on learners and then determining how to make them more effective. As much of my research occurs outside the classroom, I am especially focused on looking at the individual components of field experiences and linking those to the course learning outcomes, the UC Graduate Profile attributes, and the UC vision of tangata tū, tangata ora - people prepared to make a difference. Both this research focus and my methodologies of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis have positioned me to work across the disciplines of arts, business, education, engineering, law, and science. With my work in all of these, there is a consistent theme of researching to affect change and how best to prepare colleagues and students to make a difference.