Ethnographic Research
Includes interviews, observations, artifact analysis, researcher photo essay,
process mapping, videotapes, micro-ethnographic methods, and discourse analysis.
Needs Assessments & Evaluations
Conducts ethnographic needs assessments and evaluations on teachers’ professional development, innovative curricular design efforts, school restructuring initiatives, and community-based natural-resource management and development projects.
Gender Equity Analysis
Documents and analyzes tailored project and curricular interventions focusing on gender-based access, opportunities, benefits, and
constraints.
Outcome- focused gender monitoring & Evaluation Systems
Conducts Gender-sensitive monitoring and evaluations to address priorities and needs of women and men, to assess impacts on gender relations, and to determine the gender-related aspects that need to be integrated into monitoring and evaluation systems.
Community based research
Conducts research with community members to democratize knowledge by recognizing and valuing the unique strengths and perspectives of all members involved in the research process.
Frances Julia Riemer, PhD 