Alice Pawley
Biographic Data
| ID | 6807616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Pawley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Pawley |
| SIGNATURE | PAWLEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9117-4855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ideal Workers within an Inequality Regime: Examining the Parental Leave Experiences of Women in STEM Doctoral Programs
This article examines how the enactment of parental leave policy for parenting women in STEM doctoral programs upholds intersecting inequalities that construct the ideal worker. We employ organizational inequality theory within a narrative analysis to examine how policy is lived by women in STEM doctoral programs. The study uses qualitative narrative analysis on interview data from four women in STEM PhD programs at a large public research-focuse…
Thinking about Racism in Engineering Education in New Ways [Commentary]
In this paper, we seek to explore the impact of engineering’s persisting predominant whiteness in the United States. Its persisting maleness is also relevant, and we will address this a little more below, but what we want to do here is share a framework that has helped our thinking in this space, and we hope it can inform yours
The Power and Politics of Engineering Education Research Design: Saving the ‘Small N’
For decades, American researchers have brought intellectual, financial and labor resources to understanding minority underrepresentation in engineering, including through studies of persistent racial and gender discrimination in higher engineering education. This paper considers prevailing standards for legitimate and significant research in this area and the persistent stigma associated with the study of small populations. The preference among m…
Examining the flexibility bind in American tenure and promotion processes: An institutional ethnographic approach
This paper analyses the role that forms of documentation play in faculty members' experiences of tenure and promotion. Taking an institutional ethnography approach, it examines inconsistencies and ambiguities in documents and connects them to the experiences of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty at one institution in the USA. The authors argue that the university documentation surrounding tenure and promotion does not…
Different people have different priorities: Work-Family Balance, Gender, and the Discourse of Choice
This paper contributes new perspectives on the underrepresentation of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines by identifying how faculty themselves conceptualize or make sense of the problem. We conducted in-depth interviews with 19 STEM faculty members. The interviews were employed to identify discourses faculty engage in their explanations for underrepresentation. Work–family balance emerged as the …
Engineering faculty drawing the line: A taxonomy of boundary work in academic engineering
In this paper, I import the conceptual tool of boundary work from other disciplines to the study of academic engineers and I expand on existing research on boundary work based on interviews from 10 engineering faculty members at a research-oriented university. Analyzing participants’ interview responses for language associated with boundary metaphors yields a rich lexicon of terms related to the complicated characterization and categorization of …
Different people have different priorities: Work-Family Balance, Gender, and the Discourse of Choice
This paper contributes new perspectives on the underrepresentation of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines by identifying how faculty themselves conceptualize or make sense of the problem. We conducted in-depth interviews with 19 STEM faculty members. The interviews were employed to identify discourses faculty engage in their explanations for underrepresentation. Work–family balance emerged as the …
The Power and Politics of Engineering Education Research Design: Saving the ‘Small N’
For decades, American researchers have brought intellectual, financial and labor resources to understanding minority underrepresentation in engineering, including through studies of persistent racial and gender discrimination in higher engineering education. This paper considers prevailing standards for legitimate and significant research in this area and the persistent stigma associated with the study of small populations. The preference among m…
Engineering faculty drawing the line: A taxonomy of boundary work in academic engineering
In this paper, I import the conceptual tool of boundary work from other disciplines to the study of academic engineers and I expand on existing research on boundary work based on interviews from 10 engineering faculty members at a research-oriented university. Analyzing participants’ interview responses for language associated with boundary metaphors yields a rich lexicon of terms related to the complicated characterization and categorization of …
Examining the flexibility bind in American tenure and promotion processes: An institutional ethnographic approach
This paper analyses the role that forms of documentation play in faculty members' experiences of tenure and promotion. Taking an institutional ethnography approach, it examines inconsistencies and ambiguities in documents and connects them to the experiences of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty at one institution in the USA. The authors argue that the university documentation surrounding tenure and promotion does not…
Engineering faculty drawing the line: A taxonomy of boundary work in academic engineering
In this paper, I import the conceptual tool of boundary work from other disciplines to the study of academic engineers and I expand on existing research on boundary work based on interviews from 10 engineering faculty members at a research-oriented university. Analyzing participants’ interview responses for language associated with boundary metaphors yields a rich lexicon of terms related to the complicated characterization and categorization of …
Examining the flexibility bind in American tenure and promotion processes: An institutional ethnographic approach
This paper analyses the role that forms of documentation play in faculty members' experiences of tenure and promotion. Taking an institutional ethnography approach, it examines inconsistencies and ambiguities in documents and connects them to the experiences of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty at one institution in the USA. The authors argue that the university documentation surrounding tenure and promotion does not…
Different people have different priorities: Work-Family Balance, Gender, and the Discourse of Choice
This paper contributes new perspectives on the underrepresentation of female faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines by identifying how faculty themselves conceptualize or make sense of the problem. We conducted in-depth interviews with 19 STEM faculty members. The interviews were employed to identify discourses faculty engage in their explanations for underrepresentation. Work–family balance emerged as the …
The Power and Politics of Engineering Education Research Design: Saving the ‘Small N’
For decades, American researchers have brought intellectual, financial and labor resources to understanding minority underrepresentation in engineering, including through studies of persistent racial and gender discrimination in higher engineering education. This paper considers prevailing standards for legitimate and significant research in this area and the persistent stigma associated with the study of small populations. The preference among m…
Thinking about Racism in Engineering Education in New Ways [Commentary]
In this paper, we seek to explore the impact of engineering’s persisting predominant whiteness in the United States. Its persisting maleness is also relevant, and we will address this a little more below, but what we want to do here is share a framework that has helped our thinking in this space, and we hope it can inform yours
Ideal Workers within an Inequality Regime: Examining the Parental Leave Experiences of Women in STEM Doctoral Programs
This article examines how the enactment of parental leave policy for parenting women in STEM doctoral programs upholds intersecting inequalities that construct the ideal worker. We employ organizational inequality theory within a narrative analysis to examine how policy is lived by women in STEM doctoral programs. The study uses qualitative narrative analysis on interview data from four women in STEM PhD programs at a large public research-focuse…
Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Engineering management (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Career Development and Diversity (2 works) · Engineering education (2 works) · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)