REDPAR Research

Research Products:

1. Tip Sheet 1: Communication (attached below)

2. Tip Sheet 2: Shared Vision (attached below)

3. Tip Sheet 3: Strategic Partnerships (attached below)

4. Tip Sheet 4: Forming and Developing Teams (attached below)

5. Tip Sheet 5: Starting a Change Project (attached below)

6. Tip Sheet 6: Leadership Succession (attached below)

7. Research to Practice Work in Progress Paper: Shared Vision for Change in STEM Education (attached below)

8. "Shared Lessons Learned Through REDPAR Tipsheets" (attached below)

9. "Building Your Dream Team for Change" (attached below)

10. The RED Teams Start Up Session: Leveraging Research with Practice for Success in Academic Change (attached below)

11. "Developing a Shared Vision for Change: Moving toward Inclusive Empowerment"

REDPAR has also produced a variety of conference papers, posters, and workshops.

12. "Unified Voice and Group Agency: Developing Teams to Transform Engineering Education" (pre-print available)

Research Questions:

1. What are the necessary skills in change management that are used by the RED recipients in their projects?

2. What traits/components/characteristics of the teams contribute to the success of engineering education change projects?

3. How does the MACH curriculum support a change leader’s ability to make change?

4. How do change agents empower stakeholders to develop a shared vision for change?

5. How does context, broadly defined, affect the ability to create change? 

Research Methods:

1. We conduct focus groups with each RED team at the beginning and the midpoints of their projects.

2. We observe monthly REDCON calls, the annual REDCON meeting, and Start Up Sessions.

3. We rely on a grounded theory approach to data analysis, a qualitative methodology that allows us to move between data and theory-building through processes of emergent coding.