Research Areas

Explore the research areas that our faculty study in the Graduate School of Education.

Educational Change
Nathan J. Daun-Barnett

Nathan J. Daun-Barnett

Associate Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

218 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-1096

Email: nbarnett@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Administration/Management; Equity and Poverty; Educational Change; Educational Leadership; Educational Policy; Economics of Education; Leadership; Gamification; Higher Education; Race, Inequality, and Education; Organizational Change; Urban Education; Quantitative Research Methods; Research Design; Program Evaluation; School Counseling; Sociology of Education

Tiffany Karalis Noel

Tiffany Karalis Noel

Clinical Associate Professor
Learning and Instruction

Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: (716) 645-2455

Email: tbkarali@buffalo.edu

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

Robert Savage

Robert Savage


Learning and Instruction

South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14260

Phone: 7166454000

Email: rsavage@buffalo.edu

Research Areas: Access and Equity; Achievement; Assessment; Elementary Education; Cognition; Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Research; Design Experiments; Literacy; Educational Change; Human Computer Interaction; Educational technology; Educational Policy; Reading Instruction; Large-Scale Assessment and Research; Learning Sciences; Measurements; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Neurocognition; Quantitative Research Methods; Statistical Methods and Applications in Statistical Issues

Paris D. Wicker

Paris D. Wicker

Assistant Professor
Educational Leadership and Policy

217 Foster Hall, South Campus
Buffalo, New York 14214

Phone: 7166451214

Email: pariswic@buffalo.edu

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