Research Experience

Dr. Chanel Beebe is a primarily qualitative researcher whose research and expertise span the following areas:

  • Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, and the Neuroscience of Learning

  • Socially Engaged Design, Design in the Real World, Service Learning, Community Engagement

  • Social Distance, Power Dynamics, Social Capital, Cultural Wealth, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

  • Teaching and Learning STEAM

Primary Research Methodologies: Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Action Research

Familiar Methods: Focus Groups, Interviews, Surveys, Observations

Successful Grant Awards:

  • Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2018-2021)

  • Gates Millennium Scholarship (Bill Gates Foundation-2009)

Graduate Research

Other Research Projects

Cultural Hackathon

Engineering Design Process used for social problems in a way that keeps the community groups in control of the design process.

Diversity Transformation

Unpacking the experiences of African American Students at a predominately White Institution. 

Gentrification and Displacement

Unpacking and sharing stories of experiences of Gentrification and Displacement in Urban American Cities.