Research
Research
Under the direction of Dr. Branda Nowell, the Fire Chasers Research Team strives to better understand collaborative efforts and adaptive capacity toward more disaster resilient communities regarding wildfire.
Purpose: Map current and potential federal partners for environmental stewardship
Methodologies: Quantitative system-oriented network analysis; qualitative case studies
Findings: TBD
My Role: Research coordinator including project team lead, data collection, interviewing, and analysis
Deliverables:
Ecosystem map with how to replicate the process for additional landscapes (for client)
Presentation at IRSPM 2025
Papers (in preparation):
Mapping complexity: Overcoming methodological challenges to studying system-oriented networks of complex phenomena
Identifying purpose-oriented networks: Challenges, criteria, and applications
Purpose: Assessing the efficacy of a state-lead multi-level disaster resilience network
Methodology: Qualitative using participant interviews
Findings: Confidential
My Role: Research assistant including initial data collection, interview transcription, analysis, and writing the final report
Deliverables:
White paper SWOT analysis report (for client)
Presentation at PMRC 2024; ASPA 2025
Paper (in preparation): Bureaucratic Design and Cross-Boundary Governance in Addressing Wicked Problems
Purpose: Understanding motivations of nonprofit service provider organizations to collaborate with state agencies in the context of restorative justice
Methodology: Semi-structured interviews
Findings: Personal and professional motivations include gaining resources, legitimacy, solidarity, expertise, trust, and capacity.
My Role: Contributing researcher
Deliverable:
Paper: Righting past wrongs through restorative justice: Organizational motivations for collaboration, https://doi.org/10.1002/nml.70021
Purpose: Understanding if costly natural disasters have a differentiating effect on annual revenue for arts nonprofit organizations compared to non-arts nonprofit organizations
Methodology: Quantitative OLS regression with interaction
Findings: Arts nonprofit organizations see a significant decrease in annual revenue compared to non-arts nonprofit organizations as disaster costs increase
My Role: Sole researcher
Deliverables:
Presentation at ASPA 2023
Paper (in process): Support for the arts, support for resilience: Considering the arts for disaster resilience & recovery