This piece appeared in the May 2022 edition of ACJS Today. Download my assignment guidelines here. I probably shouldn’t admit this so openly, but: as a criminal justice student, I really didn’t ‘get’ theory. My theory course seemed like a semester-long exercise in memorizing an endless litany of rival explanations for the same observations, all…
Author: Rebecca Stone
Teaching Materials: Research Methods starter pack
There is so much about academia that is grounded in competition and opportunity-hoarding. Doctoral programs can be cutthroat, pitting students against each other to compete for funding and opportunities. The job market is… well, let’s not even go there. And then there’s the mad race of the tenure track, if you can get on it…
Creative Science Communication: Student-Centered Project Development and Assessment
The following essay appeared in the Spring 2022 edition of the Division on Women & Crime newsletter, available HERE. You can find my guidelines for my science communication project HERE. “So, you let students choose their own project and make their own grading rubric?” I could hear the note of incredulity in my friend’s voice,…
Creating Mock “RFPs” for Undergraduate Research Methods
This week I tweeted a few thoughts on my approach to teaching our undergraduate “Research Methods in Sociology” and the positive response encouraged me to do a slightly more detailed write-up here. Before I launch into that, a bit of background. I teach at small university that feels more like a SLAC. We are primarily…
Community-Based Participatory Research and Feminist Criminology: Some resources
At the November 2019 meeting of the American Society of Criminology, it was my pleasure to work with Dr. Julie Yingling and graduate student Danielle Haverkate to deliver a brief workshop on community-based participatory research (CBPR). This workshop was sponsored by the Division on Women and Crime (DWC). In proposing the workshop, we argued that…