University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work
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The Action Research Podcast connects scholars and community experts to cultivate change in research procedures, policy, and impact practice. The HEAR Lab amplifies anti-racist research at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. Learn more: uh.edu/socialwork/actionresearch
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A grounded look at Houston's Healthy Start work, connecting infant mortality data with systems, bias, and community care.
A Healthy Start for Black Infants in Houston takes up a practical, difficult question: what does it take to respond to infant mortality when the causes sit inside both community health and larger systems?
A grounded look at how language, stigma, and health care access shape brain health in Houston's older Vietnamese community.
Forgetfulness becomes a matter of access, language, migration, and stigma in this review of The Action Research Podcast's episode on older Vietnamese immigrants and refugees in Houston.
Dr. Linda Marie Olson links neurofeedback research with youth trauma care and the work of bringing findings back to families.
This episode follows Dr. Linda Marie Olson as she talks through her work studying neurofeedback with young people who had experienced trauma. She explains how QEEGs, or brain maps, were used with youth in both treatment and control groups, alongside measures such as the Trauma…
A grounded HEAR Lab conversation on positionality, dissertation work, institutional power, and responsibility to communities.
Doctoral research becomes a study of power in this HEAR Lab episode, as the conversation follows how scholars understand their identities, their institutions, and their obligations to the communities they study.
A practical dissertation conversation about process, flexibility, and research that reaches beyond articles.
This dissertation-centered conversation stays grounded in the work itself rather than drifting into ceremony. Dr. Caitlin Maitelka walks through a secondary data dissertation with steady attention to progress, protected time, and the way plans shift when a sample or analysis…
Community-engaged research meets the hard work of family reunification and advocacy.
This episode treats engaged action research as work meant to leave the page and shape practice and policy. Its purpose is easy to grasp: collaborative, accessible, anti-racist research that centers community and aims at social change.
Research findings, translated for real-world stakes.
Graduate research, served conversationally.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
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The Action Research Podcast examines Black maternal and infant health through the University of Houston's Healthy Start program and its 10 service-area zip codes.
The Action Research Podcast examines brain health among Houston's older Vietnamese immigrants and refugees through an eight-year community-engaged project.
Linda Marie Olson argues that “the best dissertation is a done dissertation,” not an endlessly perfected manuscript.
The Action Research Podcast's episode "Racial Justice in the Dissertation Process" explains dissertations through quantitative studies, qualitative narratives, and three-paper formats.
The Action Research Podcast examines Quinnette Walton's qualitative study of COVID-19, racism, and middle-class Black women's mental health.