Research Areas
Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.
Qualitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Information Science
Research Areas: Information Science; Achievement; Assessment; Cultural Studies; Cognition; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Design Experiments; Educational technology; Evaluation; Gamification; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Learning Design; Measurements; Online and Distance Learning; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Elementary Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Literacy; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Qualitative Research Methods
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Buffalo, New York 14260
Email: cpbrown5@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Assessment; Critical Policy Analysis; Curriculum and Instruction; Educational Leadership; Educational Policy; Educator Preparation; Standards; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; English Education; Curriculum and Instruction; Equity and Poverty; Educational technology; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality; Qualitative Research Methods
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: English Education; International Education; Educational Policy; Multicultural Competence; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Sociolinguistics; Qualitative Research Methods; Research Design; Research Methods
Clinical Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: My research explores the (re)production of inequality in and through schooling. I study the preparation of teachers, community-engaged teacher preparation, and school transition processes and how they are used to seek and maintain advantage.
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: test
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: school district policy, school boards, state departments of education, organizational theory, institutions, education policy, policy implementation, leadership, management, administration
Assistant Professor
Information Science
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Information Science; Library Science; Higher Education; Online and Distance Learning; Qualitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Achievement; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Urban Education; Sociology of Education
Professor
Information Science
Research Areas: Digital literacy; information literacy; information behavior; research methodologies
Clinical Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; English Education; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; Literacy; Educational Change; Educational Leadership; Educator Preparation; Leadership; Higher Education; Online and Distance Learning; Qualitative Research Methods; Professional / Staff Development; Social and Emotional Development
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Educational Linguistics; Language Teaching and Learning; Interculturality; Design of Learning Environments (VR); Teacher Preparation and Learning
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
403 Baldy Hall
Buffalo, New York 14260
Email: kosroosh@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: qualitative methods; critical phenomenology; community-engaged and action research within counselor education; community-driven interventions within k-12 schools; Black and Indigenous students experiences within education
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
University at Buffalo, SUNY Graduate School of Education Buffalo, NY 14260-1000
Buffalo, New York 14260
Email: malemke@buffalo.edu
Research Areas: Critical Policy Analysis; Discourse analysis; Gender Studies; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Legal Issues; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education; Wellness
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Charter Schools; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Cultural Studies; Cognition; Diversity; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Educator Preparation; Multicultural Competence; Learning Communities; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; School and Community Partnerships; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Neurocognition; Sociolinguistics; Organizational Change; Qualitative Research Methods; Professional / Staff Development; Politics of Education; Research Design; Research Methods
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Engineering Education; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Literacy; Discourse analysis; Ethnography; Race, Inequality, and Education; Linguistic, Discourse, and Sociocultural Context; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods; Research Methods
Assistant Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Latinx/Chicanx K-12 Education and Teacher Preparation; Latinx Education and Immigration in the U.S. South; Teacher Identity and Subjectivity; Social Studies Education; Critical Geography; (post)Qualitative Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Adolescent Literacies; Literacy Studies; Placemaking; Spatial Justice; ELA Teacher Education; Ethnography; Critical Digital Media; Young Adult Literature; Youth Identities
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Critical Policy Analysis; Gender Studies; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education; Sociology of Education
Associate Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: Clinical/counselor supervision, program management in rehabilitation agencies, community participation of people with disabilities, supports for individuals with brain injuries, psychometrics, motivational interviewing interventions
Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: student-parents; work-life integration; faculty and staff work; organizational change
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Equity and Justice in STEM Education; Climate Change Education; Environmental Justice Education
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Curriculum and Instruction; Assessment; Cognition; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Equity and Poverty; ESL/ENL/Bilingual; International Education; Discourse analysis; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Mathematics Education; Educator Preparation; Immigrant Issues; Multicultural Competence; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; STEM education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Social Justice; Multimodality; Problem Based Learning; Standards; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Urban Education
Associate Professor
Information Science
Research Areas: Information Science; Library Science; Information behavior; Information practices; Diversity; Global Issues; Qualitative Research Methods
Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Access and Equity; Assessment; Cognition; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Curriculum and Instruction; Diversity; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Science Education; Leadership; Learning Design; Race, Inequality, and Education; Problem Based Learning; Qualitative Research Methods; Urban Education
Professor
Learning and Instruction
Dean's Office
Research Areas: Curriculum and Instruction; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Child and Adolescent Development; Cognition; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Diversity; Curriculum and Instruction; Design Experiments; International Education; Literacy; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Immigrant Issues; Ethnography; Science Education; Learning Communities; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods
Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: Access and Equity; Cultural Competence and Humility; Critical Policy Analysis; Diversity; Educational Change; Discourse analysis; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Racism and AntiBlackness; Meditation, Mental Health and Wellness; Mental Health; Mindfulness; Social Justice; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Wellness
Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Areas: Cultural Studies; Disability Studies; Global Issues; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Qualitative Research Methods; Politics of Education
Assistant Professor
Counseling, School and Educational Psychology
Research Areas: Educational data science; data science education; computational research methods; mixed research methods; natural language processing; machine learning; artificial intelligence in education; design-based research; constructionism