My First TQR Conference Presentation

2024-03-13T16:27:53-07:00

Doctoral students Iris Nafshi and Denise Dziwak and their faculty mentor Annabelle Nelson presented at the TQR 15th Annual Conference Qualitative Inquiry; Access Denied?, February 29-March 1, 2024 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  by doctoral student Denise Dwizak Iris Nafshi, Denise Dziwak and Annabelle Nelson presented at the TQR 15th Annual Conference February 29-March 1, 2024 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Just recently, I had the privilege of presenting my doctoral research at the TQR Conference at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The experience was nothing short of transformative, marking my first official foray into the academic [...]

My First TQR Conference Presentation2024-03-13T16:27:53-07:00

Fielding Presents at the TQR 15th Annual Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida

2024-03-13T13:50:18-07:00

Doctoral students Iris Nafshi and Denise Dziwak and their faculty mentor Annabelle Nelson presented at the TQR 15th Annual Conference Qualitative Inquiry; Access Denied?, February 29-March 1, 2024 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Iris Nafshi, Denise Dziwak and Annabelle Nelson presented at the TQR 15th Annual Conference February 29-March 1, 2024 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida Their presentation was entitled, “Discovering Capacity and Transforming Identities:  Narrative Research”.  The work was based on Denise and Iris’ research from the Advanced Research Method Narrative Inquiry course (HOD 838NI).   Iris interviewed Iron Moms, mothers who compete in the Iron Man and found themes [...]

Fielding Presents at the TQR 15th Annual Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida2024-03-13T13:50:18-07:00

Monday, March 11, 2024    Fielding Forward: 50th Anniversary Celebration & A Giving Marathon

2024-02-21T08:40:02-08:00

Fielding Graduate University Giving Marathon Schedule- Pacific Time Zone Every gift received between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. is matched 1:1 by Fielding alum and Board member John Bennett, PhD, for up to $2,000. 7:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.: Celebrating 50 Years of Change- Fielding's Giving Marathon   Prize: Five random participants who donate in this time slot get "The Transformative Power of Learning" monograph, a 50th-anniversary pin, and a Fielding-branded fancy notebook. 8:00-9:00– Call Across the Globe 2024: 50 Years of Stories. Join us for an online event. To sign-up and for more details: https://www.fielding.edu/event/50-years-of-stories-call-across-the-globe-2024-giving-day/  10 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Empowerment Through Giving for [...]

Monday, March 11, 2024    Fielding Forward: 50th Anniversary Celebration & A Giving Marathon2024-02-21T08:40:02-08:00

Fielding Forward: Join Fielding for Call Across the Globe 2024 and Giving Marathon on March 11, 2024 

2024-02-21T11:10:33-08:00

See the Day's Full Schedule Below Since 1974, Fielding Graduate University has been on the cutting edge of the social sciences, from its early adoption of the distributed-learning model to its focus on adult learning. On March 11, 2024, Fielding will commemorate its 50th Anniversary with the annual Call Across the Globe and our Giving Marathon. As Fielding turns 50 in 2024, past, present, and future members of our community are invited to attend Call Across the Globe 2024: 50 Years of Stories on Monday, March 11, 2024, at 8 a.m. PT | 11 a.m. ET. While scholarship [...]

Fielding Forward: Join Fielding for Call Across the Globe 2024 and Giving Marathon on March 11, 2024 2024-02-21T11:10:33-08:00

Submit Your Stories for March 11’s Call Across the Globe 2024

2024-02-16T12:49:56-08:00

Submit Your Stories for March 11’s Call Across the Globe 2024 Share your stories with us during Fielding’s 50th Anniversary! For 50 years, Fielding has been on the cutting edge of the social sciences, and our community members continue to move collective and individual scholarship and practice forward. While that showcases the Fielding experience, the stories of our community are at the heart of who we are.  During our Call Across the Globe: 50 Years of Stories celebration on March 11, we are sharing the narratives of our students, alums, faculty, staff, Trustees, donors, faculty emeriti, friends, family, and more! [...]

Submit Your Stories for March 11’s Call Across the Globe 20242024-02-16T12:49:56-08:00

Media Psychology Student Uses VR to Transport Viewers Back to 1955 and the Famous Rosa Parks Bus Ride

2024-02-16T07:50:25-08:00

Cory Logston, Ph.D. candidate Ph.D. candidate in media psychology, Cory Logston is dedicated to leveraging virtual reality (VR) technology for social good to induce empathy and reduce implicit racial bias. Cory’s VR project centers around the iconic civil rights figure Rosa Parks and has garnered significant attention. The VR experience transports users into history, providing an immersive experience that enables individuals to witness and understand the pivotal moment when Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama 1955. Cory recently received endorsement from Rosa Parks' family, adding authenticity and reverence to the [...]

Media Psychology Student Uses VR to Transport Viewers Back to 1955 and the Famous Rosa Parks Bus Ride2024-02-16T07:50:25-08:00

Alonso Center Presents: Decolonizing Cognition

2024-02-13T15:45:14-08:00

Alonso Center Presents: Decolonizing Cognition Magical Thinking, Psychoanalysis, & the Spectrum of Rationality.  Please join us on Sunday, February 18, 11.30 a.m.-2.30 p.m. ET, for a presentation by a guest speaker, Rain Mason Olbert, PhD, titled “Decolonizing Cognition: Magical Thinking, Psychoanalysis, & the Spectrum of Rationality.”    Email alonso@fielding.edu to receive a Zoom link.  Rain Mason Olbert, Ph.D. Talk Description:  The ascendency of natural science and its focus on objective knowledge fostered a powerful ideology—naturalism—which devalues and marginalizes non-scientific ways of experiencing and knowing the world. Max Weber named the experience of mechanization and objectification following in [...]

Alonso Center Presents: Decolonizing Cognition2024-02-13T15:45:14-08:00

Transforming Trauma into Beauty: Community Healing and Solidarity-Building Through Arts-Based Phenomenological Research

2024-02-13T15:48:29-08:00

Ruthellen Josselson Chair in Qualitative Inquiry Speaker Series Presents: Transforming Trauma into Beauty: Community Healing and Solidarity-Building Through Arts-Based Phenomenological Research will feature Nisha Gupta, Ph.D., on April 7, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. PT | 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET. Register Today! Nisha Gupta, Ph.D. The goal of this learning experience is to introduce participants to arts-based phenomenological research as a vehicle for emancipatory praxis to serve the mission of liberation psychology, which is to raise critical consciousness about the psychological impact of sociopolitical oppression and to partner with marginalized communities to foster dialogue, community healing, [...]

Transforming Trauma into Beauty: Community Healing and Solidarity-Building Through Arts-Based Phenomenological Research2024-02-13T15:48:29-08:00

Fielding Graduate University Proudly Supports the Pacific Pride Festival 2023

2023-09-05T08:40:09-07:00

Fielding at Pride 2023! It is always a beautiful experience to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride in Santa Barbara.  So pleased that among all the community supporters, there was a Fielding table with wonderful representatives. — Anna DiStefano, Ed.D., Provost Emerita Fielding Graduate University supported the 2023 Pacific Pride Festival, “Pride at the Beach,”  with a sponsor booth. The festival took place this past weekend on Saturday, August 26, 2023, in Chase Palm Park along the beautiful Santa Barbara coastline. The annual event celebrates the LGBTQ+ local, national, and worldwide communities. This year’s “Pride at the Beach” event had a particular [...]

Fielding Graduate University Proudly Supports the Pacific Pride Festival 20232023-09-05T08:40:09-07:00

Climate Crisis Demands Collective, Individual Leadership and Responsibility

2023-08-29T11:32:48-07:00

Not everyone can lower their carbon footprint, but every person can do one thing within a community context of support. As temperatures continued to rise this summer, with dire predictions that the next year will be hotter than the one that preceded it, communities around the globe have added climate adaptation and building resilient infrastructure to their list of priorities. Grim statistics greet us as we read news stories, ranging from the worldwide crash of the amphibian population to the decline of pollinators, so necessary for global food production. Recently, the increased temperatures in the southern Florida Keys have caused [...]

Climate Crisis Demands Collective, Individual Leadership and Responsibility2023-08-29T11:32:48-07:00
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