Graduate Students Research Articles

Supervisors’ emotion regulation in research supervision: navigating dilemmas in an accountability-based context

AbstractGiven the complexity and high demands of research supervision and the intricate emotional experiences of supervisors, there is a need to explore how they regulate their emotions, particularly across various disciplinary backgrounds. The current study explored the emotion regulation strategies employed by research supervisors during the process of supervising graduate students. Based on data collected through semi-structured interviews, observations, and documentation from six research supervisors in different institutions in China, seven emotion regulation strategies employed by research supervisors were identified and further categorized into two groups, that is, antecedent-focused (prevention, intervention, reinterpretation, reconcentration, and detachment) and response-focused (suppression and expression) emotion regulation strategies. The findings shed light on the dilemmas faced by supervisors and the paradox aroused from the context-dependent and non-standardized nature of research supervision within an accountability-based managerial context. The implications for supervisors’ emotion regulation in authentic supervisory situations are discussed, and insights for universities’ policy-making are offered.

How to improve the health care quality for patients with lower extremity varicose vein disease? Book Review: Borsuk D.A., Fokin A.A. Strategies to improve outcomes of minimally invasive treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities. Moscow: DPK Press; 2023. 300 p. (In Russ.)

The presented paper reviews the monograph Strategies to improve outcomes of minimally invasive treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities by D.A. Borsuk and A.A. Fokin intended to be used by surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, ultrasonic medical investigation specialists, resident physicians, graduate students and students of medical universities. The need to publish the book is determined by the urgency of the problem at issue. The reviewer discusses the results presented by the authors of their own comparative and non-comparative, randomized and non-randomized, prospective and retrospective, clinical and morphological single-centre trials. The monograph’s review summarized its theoretical and practical value for treatment and preventive surgery facilities providing care to patients with lower extremity varicose vein disease.

ECR Spotlight – Adèle Léger

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Adèle Léger is an author on ‘ Investigating the thermal sensitivity of key enzymes involved in the energetic metabolism of three insect species’, published in JEB. Adèle is a graduate student in the lab of Nicolas Pichaud at Université de Moncton, Canada, investigating how insect metabolism is affected by environmental changes such as temperature.

Treatment Case Studies in the Consolidation and Adhesion of Cellulose Nitrate

ABSTRACT Cellulose nitrate artifacts from the collections of the Queen’s University Master of Art Conservation Program and Glanmore National Historic Site were examined and treated by graduate students in the Master of Art Conservation Program at Queen’s. Each object was in a varied state of degradation with unique condition problems. Under the supervision of the artifacts conservation professor, graduate students identified the materials constituting their objects and tested various treatment methods for consolidation and structural repair. Paraloid® B-67 in n-butanol and Aquazol® resins in isopropanol and distilled water were found to be effective in different roles, depending on the object and its state of degradation. This paper will discuss the factors that influenced decision-making for each object, with the aim of expanding interventive treatment strategies for cellulose nitrate objects.

Examining higher education through HyFlex

ABSTRACT This design-based research (DBR) study investigated the following research question: How can the HyFlex instructional model be leveraged to create more accessible and equitable education for graduate students? To address this question, the researchers explored two education doctoral courses in the USA, with 37 participants for one semester. The essential elements of the intervention included the following: digital, multimodal tools; equity of online and face-to-face learning environments; and engagement in community. A mixed methods approach to data collection and analysis was utilised in accordance with the DBR framework, including inhibiting and enhancing factors of the intervention, modifications made, unanticipated outcomes, and progress towards the goal. The discussion provides guidance for future implementation of the HyFlex model in higher education.

Mott Award Honors Top Graduate Students

Mott Award Honors Top Graduate Students

Identifying, understanding, and supporting diverse first-generation scholars in linguistics

One in three college graduates is in the first generation of their family to complete a bachelor’s degree (NCES 2016), including 27% of doctoral students (CGS 2022) and 28% of tenure-track faculty (Morgan et al. 2022). Although there exists ample diversity of perspective and experience among first-generation students, relative to continuing-generation students, they are more likely to work full-time, care for dependents, and/or contribute to the income of their households. They are also more likely to be older, lower-income, racially minoritized, and to have graduated from community colleges. These factors provide first-generation linguists with unique forms of cultural and symbolic capital that often go undervalued in academia. We demonstrate how faculty can establish effective and nurturing mentoring relationships with first-generation students, how first-generation graduate students and faculty can maintain a work-life balance, and how to use tailor-made case studies to increase the visibility of generation-based educational inequity. Our perspective emphasizes structural barriers over individual shortcomings and uplifts first-generation voices in a variety of academic roles and institutional contexts within linguistics and allied disciplines.

W.E.B. Du Bois and Irene Diggs: Gender, Erasures, and Knowledge Production in the Sociology of the Global Color Line

The global sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois developed during the 1940s relies significantly on a collaborative relationship with African-American sociologist and anthropologist Irene Diggs (1906–1998). Diggs was mentored by Du Bois as a graduate student at Atlanta University and later became his research assistant, secretary, and colleague. No person worked for and with Du Bois as Diggs did, for nearly 14 years. In her own work, Diggs transcended Du Bois. Using archival documentary research, I analyze the connection between Diggs and Du Bois to show how they developed a global sociological perspective that included an analysis of the color line in Latin America. My analysis has two goals: (1) to show how the Du Bois–Diggs relationship was permeated by gender inequalities and a misrecognition of Diggs’s critical contribution and (2) to introduce Irene Diggs’s work on Latin America between 1942 and 1953 to show how it was inscribed within the project of a global sociology of the color line. I discuss how Diggs’s historical sociology expands the analysis of the Latin American color line today.

Upset, yet loyal: employee voice amidst unionization at Starbucks

Research methodology The case data are from a mix of secondary sources, which included company documents, webpages and blogposts, autobiographies co-written by Schultz, newspaper stories, news media and other publicly available videos, magazine articles, photographs of signed unionization statements, and webinar interview. Case overview/synopsis In late autumn 2021, the global retail coffee and foodservice company Starbucks dealt with employees at a few USA stores who initiated unionization efforts in an attempt to change their workplace. Their actions triggered a wave of similar attempts at Starbucks stores across the USA over the next few years. Employees amplified their voices on social media, stating both their love for the company and their disenfranchisement. They claimed to have little input about policies and workplace decisions that affected them and that leadership had not heard or adequately responded to concerns with staffing, safety, equipment, and abusive customers. Walkouts were staged and employees at numerous stores pursued unionization. In 2023, Laxman Narasimhan replaced Howard Schultz as CEO. His tenure started with the challenge of reengaging employees who claimed their collective voice was unheard by leadership Readers will consider what employee voice means in the context of baristas working for a large corporation, and how their emotions, commitment to and respect for the organization, and their desire to be heard, related to efforts to unionize and maintain employment. Complexity academic level This case can be used as a unit review to cover several organizational behavior topics or can be used with specific concepts for graduate or undergraduate students. The placement within the semester plan depends on which unit/concepts the instructor will pair with it, such as emotions in the workplace, a module on loyalty, voice and exit, or the introduction of employee voice and engagement. It can also be used in conjunction with cross-level concepts such as trust and leadership. For courses focused on talent management, employee relations, or human resource development, the case could be used to introduce multiple concepts or as a concluding assessment. It would best pair with topics such as employee satisfaction, exit, voice and loyalty, inclusive decision-making or emotions in the workplace. For a course in labor relations, the case could introduce the idea that employees’ experiences, emotions, and perceptions may be related to efforts to unionize.

Gendered Memory Patterns: Unravelling Primacy and Recency Effects in Comparative Analysis

Gendered Memory Patterns: Unravelling Primacy and Recency Effects in Comparative Analysis

Measurement of sustainable attitudes: a scale for business students

Purpose This study aims to present the development and validation of a scale to measure the attitudes of Latin American business students toward sustainable management practices in the economic, social and environmental dimensions. Design/methodology/approach Using a nonprobabilistic sample, the appreciation for sustainable practices in students (ASP-S) scale was administered to a total of 653 undergraduate and graduate business students in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. A range of psychometric validity (construct, convergent and discriminant) and reliability criteria were applied. Findings Construct, convergent and discriminant validity was obtained from the ASP-S scale across all samples. During the internal validation process, two factors were found: systemic consciousness (ten items) and sustainable business leadership (nine items), both of which obtained acceptable reliability indices. The resulting structure is equivalent in all four countries. Originality/value The instrument can be applied by educators and learning assurance areas to diagnose and measure the effectiveness of pedagogical strategies used in sustainability courses taught at Latin American business schools. As a result, it has applications for curriculum design. As a valid and reliable instrument set in the context of regional business praxis, it can promote an understanding of sustainable behaviors and practices in future Latin American leaders.

Evaluation of University’s Place in the Adult Education Ecosystem

The authors of the present paper conducted a comprehensive analysis of university place in the ecosystem of adult education, based on its characteristic functions, priorities of activity and emerging tensions. The participation of universities in the professional training of adults is analyzed. The research focus is projected on the assessment of the situation at the institutional (a university as a social institution) and organizational level (a university as a specific institution of higher education). A discussion of the prospects for transforming the place of higher institution in the ecosystem of adult education is presented. The study was conducted using a semiformalized interview method (n=36) with representatives of the commercial and public sector occupying key positions (heads and top management of universities, corporate universities, educational consulting organizations, providers of non-formal education services, etc.). Main results. Several points of university positioning in the structure of adult education ecosystem are identified: 1) the university is the core of the educational ecosystem and holds this status; 2) the university occupies the central place of the educational ecosystem, but can lose this status by certain actions or inaction; 3) the university is not the core of the educational ecosystem and should not be; 4) the university is not the core of the educational ecosystem, but could become it. According to most experts, universities occupy a central place in the ecosystem of adult education and have a high potential to retain leadership positions, provided that the educational material is relevant and meets the demands of the labor market. At the same time, it is important to consider that some participants of the educational ecosystem (online platforms, corporate universities and others) are rapidly increasing their influence and implementing large-scale educational programs for the population. Universities, having a high level of public trust and being mainly responsible for fundamental professional education, are interested in accumulating the advantages of other participants of the educational ecosystem. It is optimal to present the university as a central hub of educational practices for the population, accumulating the advantages of other actors of the adult education ecosystem. The article is addressed to administrative and managerial staff of universities, representatives of executive authorities and the real sector of the economy, scientific and pedagogical staff and graduate students seeking to study lifelong learning of adults.

APPLICATION OF RANDOM FOREST METHOD TO PREDICTION OF STUDENT CANDIDATES ACCEPTED IN THE SNMPTN PATHWAY (CASE STUDY AT UNIVERSITAS LAMBUNG MANGKURAT)

Academic planning is an essential aspect that needs to be carried out to plan the teaching and learning process in a campus, such as the admission of new students through the SNMPTN. At Lambung Mangkurat University, it is known that the partici- pants who took the SNMPTN during the 2021 admission period amounted to 7,703. It is recognized that selecting candidates is not easy due to many prospective students passing the selection but choosing to withdraw. Therefore, a system is needed to predict the graduation of prospective students through the SNMPTN. This research utilizes the Random Forest method to predict the graduation of prospective students through the SNMPTN. The data will be divided into 90% for training data and 10% for testing data, then using classification parameters with 300 n-estimators. The research yielded a precision value of 0.72, recall value of 0.46, and system accuracy of 89.3% For further research recommendations, other prediction methods can be explored to forecast the graduation rate of students through the SNMPTN, or a comparison of methods can be con- ducted to determine which method is more effective.

Gender Perspectives on Role Models: Insights from STEM Students and Professionals

AbstractQualified professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and STEM education are in increasingly short supply globally. Role models can help increase women’s representation in STEM, both at entry and senior levels. The study objectives were to identify the characteristics of role models in STEM higher education and careers and to investigate the differences in role model characteristics between career stages and between genders. We used a mixed-methods methodology involving a questionnaire and interviews. The participants, 788 alumni and final-year undergraduate and graduate students from a STEM research university, responded to the questionnaire, and ten leading women in STEM professions were interviewed. The questionnaire results indicated that a higher proportion of women than men reported being influenced by a role model during their studies. Seven key characteristics of role models were identified from the open-ended responses and the interviews: ambitious, charismatic, empathic and encouraging, inspiring, knowledgeable, gifted, and professional. The most frequent characteristics women mentioned were empathic and encouraging. The research findings support and align with the social cognitive career theory (SCCT), demonstrating how role modeling, which is part of the environmental theme, boosts intrinsic motivation—part of the personal theme, for individuals in STEM, especially women. These processes impact women’s determination and professional performance—part of the behavioral theme. Based on our findings, to advance toward a STEM workforce characterized by greater fairness, we recommend designing and deploying structured mentoring programs and forums in STEM departments that can provide young women with more role models for success and thus with more hope for success in these fields.

Analysing the Functions of Lexical Bundles for Teaching Academic Writing to Graduate Students

Academic writing skills contribute greatly in academic performance. One of the key elements of good academic writing is to know the proper use of the strings of the words usually occur together. These words are termed as lexical bundles in corpus linguistics. Some research has been conducted on the use and functions of lexical bundles in spoken and written discourses (Chen & Chen, 2020). However, there is scarce research on the functions of lexical bundles and their use in Pakistani research writing. While drawing on the corpus of 90201 corpora of the 12 Pakistani research articles, we investigated the functions and use of lexical bundles in research papers of Pakistani authors. The list of the lexical bundles by Simpson-Vlach and Ellis (2010) was used as a source to interpret the lexical bundles. We found the referential expressions were the highest lexical bundles in research articles of Pakistani authors followed by the expressions of ability and possibility and hedges in the list. Based on these findings, we argue that Pakistani authors are aware about the various types of the lexical bundles and their functions in academic writing. It is suggested that the high-frequency bundles can help the learners to improve the use of modal words used as hedges in academic writing. As per the findings of this study, it is recommended that a large corpus may be built for better results in the future.

Exploration and Research on the Training Mode of Professional Degree Graduates-taking Civil Engineering and Water Conservancy as an Example

With the rapid development of the social economy, the demand for talents is increasing. It is necessary to have a solid theoretical foundation and good hands-on and creative abilities. How to cultivate graduate students majoring in civil engineering and water conservancy is the most important issue for people. The exploration of the training mode for master’s students majoring in civil engineering and water conservancy mainly includes: establishing training objectives in the planning stage, formulating training plans, and developing evaluation indicators; the implementation phase includes teaching, research guidance, internships, and other stages; the assessment stage is to evaluate the academic level and teaching quality of graduate students majoring in wood water conservancy; in the improvement stage, based on the assessment results, adjust the training plan, improve the teaching methods for graduate students in the field of wood and water conservancy, and enhance the discipline construction; on this basis, through continuous PDCA(Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycles, the overall quality and professional ability of talents have been further improved to meet the needs of social and industrial development. Group 1 (experimental group) scored 85 points in time management, 90 points in resource allocation, and 88 points in risk control. Four groups (control group) scored 75 points in time management, 78 points in resource allocation, and 72 points in risk control. This article aims to assist students in quickly integrating into the workplace and serving socio-economic development.

Christopher Tam: Brief history and accomplishments

This introduction provides a brief personal background and highlights the scientific accomplishments of Professor Christopher Tam. He has maintained extremely high standards of research and an enviable track record for productivity, spanning more than five decades. The depth and breadth of his technical output are truly breathtaking, and he has inspired scores of researchers and graduate students. When the first author was an Acoustics Engineer at Lockheed, Georgia, he started collaborating with Chris in the early 1990s. There were several joint projects when the author moved to Boeing, which encompassed both fundamental research and applications. The second author has an even longer association with Chris, initially as a PhD advisee in the late 1980s and then as a co-researcher. In this special volume we pay tribute to Chris’s many achievements, an endeavor that provides us with great satisfaction and which is long overdue.

Anti-Blackness in Schools of Social Work: A Black Feminist Polyethnography

ABSTRACT Considering the significant contributions of Black women social workers to our profession, and the unyielding stressors and expectations disproportionately affecting Black women in the context of Black Lives Matter and COVID-19, addressing anti-Blackness and understanding the lived experiences of Black women within higher education are essential first steps toward eliminating racism, the 13th and most recently adopted Grand Challenge. Guided by Black feminist polyethnography, this study examined how anti-Blackness is collectively felt and experienced by six Black and mixed Black women faculty and graduate students in schools of social work over their academic careers. Initial steps schools of social work can take to acknowledge and address manifestations of anti-Blackness within existing policies, procedures, curriculum, and dominant school culture are discussed.

Growing grassroots: counseling student experiences in legislative professional advocacy

ABSTRACT Counselor educators and supervisors have a vital role in promoting legislative professional advocacy (LPA). An interpretative qualitative analysis study of counseling graduate students involved in state-level LPA was conducted. Findings revealed six distinct themes: (1) professional counselor identity, (2) knowledge, attitudes and skills, (3) professional support, (4) power of the group, (5) social justice, and (6) personal impact. Study findings may help counselor educators and supervisors educate, guide, and mentor students, thereby increasing the likelihood of professional counselor LPA.

The Invisible Carework of Anti-racist Pedagogy: The Experiences of Graduate Student Teaching Assistants

In this essay, we discuss our experience as graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) in a first-year writing program with an explicitly anti-racist pedagogy. The growing literature on critical pedagogy focuses on the instructor-undergraduate student dynamic but does not address the necessary role of GTAs in implementing anti-racist pedagogy. We use feminist theory to contend that care is an inherent component of anti-racist pedagogy and that GTAs are integral actors in providing that care. We highlight the indispensable role of GTAs in navigating the complexities of larger classes as anti-racist pedagogy is scaled up beyond the individual classroom and instructor. We conclude by providing three possible solutions to address this challenge.