In this workshop, Dr. Huff will introduce participants to the tacit and often hidden skills of doing interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to understand lived experience in the social contexts of education. With the growth of IPA research in engineering education and other domains of applies psychology, this workshop will sharpen the skills of participants who come with experience in qualitative research and provide practical guidance to participants who may be novices. The workshop is characterized by an interactive style, in which participants collectively analyze a transcript excerpt from an interview with an engineering student regarding their experience of professional shame. We will focus on psychological experience as a perspective to identify under-explored phenomena in the participants’ own contexts (e.g., psychological journeys of identity; emotion in engineering education). After the participants engage in an in-depth process of analyzing a common experience of professional shame based on an excerpt from an interview transcript, I will invite the participants to identify psychological experiences that are often invisible in their own institutional contexts. 

Bio: Dr. James Huff is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Honors College Senior Faculty Fellow at Harding University. He conducts transdisciplinary research on identity that lies at the nexus of applied psychology and engineering education. Dr. Huff received the NSF CAREER award (No. 2045392) to advance research on professional shame as a pernicious force that powerfully affects individual well-being and cultural equity in domains of engineering education and practice. As Director of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab, Dr. Huff has mentored numerous undergraduate students, doctoral students, and academic professionals from more than 10 academic disciplines in using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) as a qualitative research method to examine identity in a variety of contexts.  

Virtual Event Information:

• Zoom Meeting: https://gatech.zoom.us/
• Meeting ID: 916 1045 8701
• Passcode: 970965