#40 Publication Spotlight: Madeline Polmear on Hispanic Women's Engagement

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Madeline Polmear discussing her research on Hispanic women's experiences in engineering.

This is our first episode which takes the new format which we will be released at intervals along with our normal longer length shows. In these episodes we will be bringing you up to date with some of the latest work within engineering education by speaking with authors of recent publications. For our first episode of this I am speaking with Madeline Polmear from Kings College London, who featured in our very first season of the podcast.  And we are going to talk about a paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education entitled Exploring engagement narratives among self-identified Hispanic women's experiences in engineering counterspaces which Madeline co-authored with Elizabeth Volpe, Idalis Villanueva Alarcón and Denise Simmons. For the full paper, follow this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jee.20630 Timestamps 0.00 Welcome and introduction 0.27 Introduction to the episode an publication 1.22 The research team 3.08 Summary of the work 4.30 The research gap 5.58 The research questions 6.35 Theoretical underpinnings 10.15 Methodology; Data Collection and analysis 12.21 The findings 15.32 Implications for engineering education practice 17.12…

People in this episode

Guest: Madeline Polmear

Topics covered

• Hispanic women's engagement
• engineering education
• research publication
• counterspaces
• narratives

Keywords

• Hispanic women
• engineering education
• research
• counterspaces
• narratives
• publication
• Madeline Polmear

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kings College London, SEFI

Books & works: Exploring engagement narratives among self-identified Hispanic women's experiences in engineering counterspaces, Journal of Engineering Education

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