Kacey Beddoes
Biographic Data
| ID | 762155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kacey Beddoes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kacey |
| FAMILY NAME | Beddoes |
| SIGNATURE | BEDDOES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2108-8884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: Perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty
Over the past two decades, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education have increasingly been integrated into higher education and academic careers. Driven in large part by the need to compete on a global scale, academic entrepreneurship is emerging as a means of financial support, innovation, and aplomb for academic scientists and engineers. However, entrepreneurial spaces, including entrepreneurial training, remain dominated by men. Underst…
We have been here Before: Reflections on Engineering and Authoritarianism
Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Fifteen Years of Research on Gender, Race, and Power in Engineering Studies
As Engineering Studies enters our sixteenth year of publication with this special issue on gender in engineering, we build on fifteen years of publishing innovative interdisciplinary work in this space.Looking
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline
STS scholarship has produced important insights about relationships between the roles of peer review and the social construction of knowledge. Yet, barriers related to access have been a continual challenge for such work. This article overcomes some past access challenges and explores peer review normativities operating in the new discipline of Engineering Education. In doing so, it contributes new insights about disciplinary development, interdi…
Discursive Boundary Work around Gender, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Engineering and Industrial Design
Five years later: Lessons and insights from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study
Despite their many benefits, longitudinal studies are much less common than one-time data collection or pre-post intervention designs. One reason for their scarcity is that longitudinal studies introduce requirements and challenges that non-longitudinal studies do not. One of the biggest challenges is participant attrition. In order to help researchers plan and conduct longitudinal studies and mitigate some of these challenges, this article prese…
Mental Health in Engineering Education: Identifying Population and Intersectional Variation
Contribution: Screening rates for engineering students for several major and moderate mental health issues are reported, including unspecified psychological distress as captured by the Kessler 6 screening instrument; screening rates for depressive, anxiety, and eating disorders as measured by the patient health questionnaire (PHQ); and screening rates for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as measured by the primary care post-traumatic stress …
Examining Privilege in Engineering Socialization Through the Stories of Newcomer Engineers
Prior research has demonstrated that early career socialization experiences play an important role in career outcomes, including learning, performance, satisfaction, and retention. What is not yet well understood, however, is how the organizational socialization experiences of different groups of early career engineers vary and how such variation leads to different career outcomes. By examining the experiences of first year engineers, this articl…
Selling policy short? Faculty perspectives on the role of policy in addressing women's underrepresentation in engineering education
Despite a nearly 40-year history of research initiatives and interventions to recruit and retain women engineering students, women remain significantly underrepresented in engineering. Given the lack of progress, it seems clear that new lenses on the problem of underrepresentation warrant further attention. Higher education policies are one area that has received comparatively scant attention from researchers and administrators in regard to under…
What's wrong with fairness? How discourses in higher education literature support gender inequalities
The role and influence of department heads on women in academia is understudied and weakly conceptualized. This article expounds on prior work, which identified limitations of department head literature, to put forth three problematic discourses that run through much of the department head research: the discourse of fairness, the discourse of collective good, and the training imperative. The discourse of fairness encourages an unproblematized ado…
Institutional Influences that Promote Studying Down in Engineering Diversity Research
Using peer reviews to examine micropolitics and disciplinary development of engineering education: A case study
This article presents a case study of the peer review process for a feminist article submitted to an engineering education journal. It demonstrates how an examination of peer review can be a useful approach to further understanding the development of feminist thought in education fields. Rather than opposition to feminist thought per se, my experience reveals that opposing beliefs about what a feminist contribution to engineering education entail…
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 …
Diversity in Engineering (DinE) Bibliography Research Brief
Methodology discourses as boundary work in the construction of engineering education
Engineering education research is a new field that emerged in the social sciences over the past 10 years. This analysis of engineering education research demonstrates that methodology discourses have played a central role in the construction and development of the field of engineering education, and that they have done so primarily through boundary work. This article thus contributes to science and technology studies literature by examining the r…
Feminist Scholarship in Engineering Education: Challenges and Tensions
This article examines the current state of feminism in the emerging field of engineering education and identifies barriers, challenges, and tensions experienced by scholars and educators who have been involved with feminist engineering education initiatives. Using data from fifteen in-depth interviews, I identified seven categories of barriers, challenges, and tensions. The categories were: engineering knowledge, culture, and training; engineerin…
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 …
Examining Privilege in Engineering Socialization Through the Stories of Newcomer Engineers
Prior research has demonstrated that early career socialization experiences play an important role in career outcomes, including learning, performance, satisfaction, and retention. What is not yet well understood, however, is how the organizational socialization experiences of different groups of early career engineers vary and how such variation leads to different career outcomes. By examining the experiences of first year engineers, this articl…
Feminist Scholarship in Engineering Education: Challenges and Tensions
This article examines the current state of feminism in the emerging field of engineering education and identifies barriers, challenges, and tensions experienced by scholars and educators who have been involved with feminist engineering education initiatives. Using data from fifteen in-depth interviews, I identified seven categories of barriers, challenges, and tensions. The categories were: engineering knowledge, culture, and training; engineerin…
What's wrong with fairness? How discourses in higher education literature support gender inequalities
The role and influence of department heads on women in academia is understudied and weakly conceptualized. This article expounds on prior work, which identified limitations of department head literature, to put forth three problematic discourses that run through much of the department head research: the discourse of fairness, the discourse of collective good, and the training imperative. The discourse of fairness encourages an unproblematized ado…
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…
Methodology discourses as boundary work in the construction of engineering education
Engineering education research is a new field that emerged in the social sciences over the past 10 years. This analysis of engineering education research demonstrates that methodology discourses have played a central role in the construction and development of the field of engineering education, and that they have done so primarily through boundary work. This article thus contributes to science and technology studies literature by examining the r…
We have been here Before: Reflections on Engineering and Authoritarianism
Discursive Boundary Work around Gender, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Engineering and Industrial Design
Diversity in Engineering (DinE) Bibliography Research Brief
Feminist Scholarship in Engineering Education: Challenges and Tensions
This article examines the current state of feminism in the emerging field of engineering education and identifies barriers, challenges, and tensions experienced by scholars and educators who have been involved with feminist engineering education initiatives. Using data from fifteen in-depth interviews, I identified seven categories of barriers, challenges, and tensions. The categories were: engineering knowledge, culture, and training; engineerin…
Diversity in Engineering (DinE) Bibliography Research Brief
Methodology discourses as boundary work in the construction of engineering education
Engineering education research is a new field that emerged in the social sciences over the past 10 years. This analysis of engineering education research demonstrates that methodology discourses have played a central role in the construction and development of the field of engineering education, and that they have done so primarily through boundary work. This article thus contributes to science and technology studies literature by examining the r…
Using peer reviews to examine micropolitics and disciplinary development of engineering education: A case study
This article presents a case study of the peer review process for a feminist article submitted to an engineering education journal. It demonstrates how an examination of peer review can be a useful approach to further understanding the development of feminist thought in education fields. Rather than opposition to feminist thought per se, my experience reveals that opposing beliefs about what a feminist contribution to engineering education entail…
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 …
Institutional Influences that Promote Studying Down in Engineering Diversity Research
Selling policy short? Faculty perspectives on the role of policy in addressing women's underrepresentation in engineering education
Despite a nearly 40-year history of research initiatives and interventions to recruit and retain women engineering students, women remain significantly underrepresented in engineering. Given the lack of progress, it seems clear that new lenses on the problem of underrepresentation warrant further attention. Higher education policies are one area that has received comparatively scant attention from researchers and administrators in regard to under…
What's wrong with fairness? How discourses in higher education literature support gender inequalities
The role and influence of department heads on women in academia is understudied and weakly conceptualized. This article expounds on prior work, which identified limitations of department head literature, to put forth three problematic discourses that run through much of the department head research: the discourse of fairness, the discourse of collective good, and the training imperative. The discourse of fairness encourages an unproblematized ado…
Examining Privilege in Engineering Socialization Through the Stories of Newcomer Engineers
Prior research has demonstrated that early career socialization experiences play an important role in career outcomes, including learning, performance, satisfaction, and retention. What is not yet well understood, however, is how the organizational socialization experiences of different groups of early career engineers vary and how such variation leads to different career outcomes. By examining the experiences of first year engineers, this articl…
Mental Health in Engineering Education: Identifying Population and Intersectional Variation
Contribution: Screening rates for engineering students for several major and moderate mental health issues are reported, including unspecified psychological distress as captured by the Kessler 6 screening instrument; screening rates for depressive, anxiety, and eating disorders as measured by the patient health questionnaire (PHQ); and screening rates for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as measured by the primary care post-traumatic stress …
The Influence of Disciplinary Origins on Peer Review Normativities in a New Discipline
STS scholarship has produced important insights about relationships between the roles of peer review and the social construction of knowledge. Yet, barriers related to access have been a continual challenge for such work. This article overcomes some past access challenges and explores peer review normativities operating in the new discipline of Engineering Education. In doing so, it contributes new insights about disciplinary development, interdi…
Discursive Boundary Work around Gender, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Engineering and Industrial Design
Five years later: Lessons and insights from a longitudinal, mixed-methods study
Despite their many benefits, longitudinal studies are much less common than one-time data collection or pre-post intervention designs. One reason for their scarcity is that longitudinal studies introduce requirements and challenges that non-longitudinal studies do not. One of the biggest challenges is participant attrition. In order to help researchers plan and conduct longitudinal studies and mitigate some of these challenges, this article prese…
Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Fifteen Years of Research on Gender, Race, and Power in Engineering Studies
As Engineering Studies enters our sixteenth year of publication with this special issue on gender in engineering, we build on fifteen years of publishing innovative interdisciplinary work in this space.Looking
(Dis)Engaging with entrepreneurial training: Perspectives and experiences of women STEM faculty
Over the past two decades, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education have increasingly been integrated into higher education and academic careers. Driven in large part by the need to compete on a global scale, academic entrepreneurship is emerging as a means of financial support, innovation, and aplomb for academic scientists and engineers. However, entrepreneurial spaces, including entrepreneurial training, remain dominated by men. Underst…
We have been here Before: Reflections on Engineering and Authoritarianism
Sociology (15 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Engineering ethics (8 works) · Career Development and Diversity (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Engineering Education and Curriculum Development (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works)