Education Research for

Advancing Critical Consciousness, Equity, and Social Justice in STEM

  • Reframing Access in College STEM Education

    Access to resources such as courses, funding, and role models is not enough to solve inequity in STEM fields if the culture remains exclusionary. Our lab works to build humanizing, justice-centered STEM environments by learning how to nurture critically conscious educators, administrators, and students. By confronting how STEM has been used for oppression and how it can be used for liberation, we hope to empower future scientists and educators to become change agents who individually and collectively wield STEM as a tool for justice and social good.

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Our Research

Our team is interested in various facets of equity and justice in college STEM teaching and learning. We engage in research using critical frameworks and mixed methodologies that explore equity and justice issues—with a focus on racism and sexism— at various levels of the system– from individual and interpersonal to the institutional, cultural, and systemic.

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Our Team

The ACCESS Lab team is comprised of researchers with critical lived experiences in the issues we investigate. The ACCESS Lab also collaborates with many education scholars and research groups at UGA, the United States and beyond.

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