Work

Co-Designing for Graduate Student Mental Health: An Example of Participatory Research Methods in PER

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this work we present an example of participatory research methodologies: a co-design session.The session was an early stage of the development of a broader study of graduate student mental health, and it provided critical insights that helped shape the study design.This paper first motivates studying graduate student mental health and then describes our co-design process in detail.We discuss the particular activities performed and the motivations for each activity, foregrounding our design choices and how these choices attended to participant psychological safety.We finally describe participants' evaluation of the session as well as themes from the session that shaped the subsequent study design.This work highlights the value of meaningfully including members of a study population in the design and interpretation of physics education research studies.

Source: Physics Education Research Conference (PERC)

DOI: 10.1119/perc.2025.pr.banner

Authors: Patrick Robert Banner, Kellen O'Brien, Chandra Turpen

Institution: University of Maryland, College Park

Language: English

Topic: Participatory Visual Research Methods

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4415600145