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Research Opportunities FCCS Faculty have expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods. We offer interdisciplinary research in emerging areas such as families and faith and families and disasters. The following are on-going programs and resources to support research in FCCS. Dr. Frances Lawrence offers students opportunities to participate in data collection (home-based and telephone interviews with parents and teenagers), data management (database creation and statistical analyses), and dissemination (writing papers and making presentations) activities with her ongoing project, NC-1011 Rural Low- income Families: Tracking their Well-being and Function in an Era of Welfare Reform. This project includes data from 14 states. Dr. Loren Marks has collaborated with Dave Dollahite (a professor and leading religion and family expert at BYU) to form the Faith and Families Research Project. Together, they have conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with about 130 Christian, Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim families from around the United States. These interviews ask participants (mothers, fathers, and adolescent children) how their personal and family lives are influenced by actively practicing their faith. "What are the perceived benefits? What are the challenges? Why is their faith involvement worth the money and time involved? Why is it meaningful?" The project has produced nearly twenty publications of varying types over the last three years, including the 2004 National Council on Family Relations "Paper of the Year" for the Religion and Family Life Section, authored by Dr. Marks and LSU graduate students Olena Nesteruk, Mandy Swanson, and Katrina Hopkins-Williams. Five LSU undergraduate students, four LSU graduate students, and Dr. Gloria Nye have all contributed significantly to the project. Dr. Marks is willing to have interested students engaged in his project in an ongoing basis, including opportunities to publish and/or present at professional conferences. Dr. Sarah Pierce offers students the opportunity to collect data from young children and the important adults in their lives, to create computer databases, and to write papers and make presentations based on the collected and analyzed data. Her current research focuses on the sensitivity of adults...both parents and caregivers...to young children, as well as other attachment-related issues. The LSU Laboratory Preschool provides an excellent opportunity for students to learn basic skills in research methods in the early childhood classroom. Faculty in FCCS routinely measure the interactions and interventions that take place in the Laboratory Preschool. In this environment, students have the opportunities to learn how to define, observe, and record child behavior, and also to design, implement, and evaluate intervention programs. By providing high-quality early childhood experiences to both typically developing children and children with identified disabilities, the LSU Laboratory Preschool provides real-life experiences that will prepare students to be successful in inclusive settings. |
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