FEATURED FACULTY & RESEARCH INVESTIGATORS

BECCI AKIN

Professor; PhD Director; Co-Director for the Center for Research to Transform Systems for Family, Community & Social Justice

Scholarship Focus

Equitable and effective child welfare practices and policies, foster care, adoption, children’s mental health, parent substance abuse, domestic violence, parent mental health, implementation research, intervention research, translational research, community-based research, evidence-based practice

Research Projects

• Kansas Strong For Children and Families (Principal Investigator)

• Kansas Family First Prevention Services Act Evaluation (CoInvestigator)

• Kansas Invests in Families (KinVest) (Principal Investigator)

• Fatherhood - Family-Focused, Interconnected, Resilient & Essential (FIRE) (Co-Investigator)

• Universal Prevention for Strong and Thriving Families (Family Strong) (Co-Investigator)

• Examination & Predictor of Youth Absent from Care (CoInvestigator)

• Oklahoma Partnership Initiative (Co-Investigator)

• Quality Improvement Center Violence in Child Welfare (QICDVCW) (Co-Investigator)

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E Alexander

Assistant Professor

Scholarship Focus

Social disparities and protective factors on college campuses, with a focus on BIWOC and QTPOC; campuses as service providers, and campus employees as helping professionals; organizational behaviors in relation to labor politics and professionalization; culturally-sustaining research, teaching, training, and service provision; intersectional and neocolonial violence and resistance in higher education

Research Projects

• Professional Socialization of Black Graduate Womxn in Education (Principal Investigator)

• KU New Faculty Research Development Fund (Principal Investigator)

• Needs and experience of KU BSW and MSW BIPOC students during COVID (Principal Investigator)

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MEREDITH BAGWELL-GRAY

Assistant Professor

Scholarship Focus

Reduce health disparities for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV); sexual safety planning intervention to address HIV/STI risk, substance use, and trauma

Research Projects

• Survivor Link: Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence (Co-Investigator)

• Cervical Cancer Prevention in Diverse Survivors of Gender Based Violence (Principal Investigator)

• Promoting Cervical Health for Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Community Engagement Project to Culturally Adapt a Trauma-Informed Approach (Principal Investigator)

• Cervical Cancer Prevention among Survivors of Partner Violence: Technological Innovations for a Trauma-Informed Approach (Principal Investigator)

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