Melissa Wooten

Mentoring is a cornerstone of the Foundation’s approach to supporting the career development of junior researchers. For instance, while applicants of the William T. Grant Scholars program must propose measured theoretical and methodological risks that will stretch their expertise, ...

How can applicants think about positionality and inclusion in their research teams? The academic enterprise is rife with practices, routines, and structures that replicate inequality along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, economic standing, language minority status, and immigration status...

Understanding why an intervention produces statistically significant outcomes requires moving away from studies that treat participation as the main variable of interest and toward those that analyze the materials and ...