Desing, R. M., & Sajadi, S., & Alston, C. A., & Damas, S. A., & Torres, G., & Bowen, C. L. (2023, June), Work in Progress: Developing Methods from Feminist Standpoint Perspectives to Analyze a Panel Discussion and Promote Enduring Impact  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44219

\bibitem{asee_peer_44219}
  Desing, R. M., \& Sajadi, S., \& Alston, C. A., \& Damas, S. A., \& Torres, G., \& Bowen, C. L. (2023, June), \emph{Work in Progress: Developing Methods from Feminist Standpoint Perspectives to Analyze a Panel Discussion and Promote Enduring Impact}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44219

Renee M. Desing, Susan Sajadi, Christina Anlynette Alston, Stephanie A Damas, Gabriella Torres, and Corin L. Bowen.  "Work in Progress: Developing Methods from Feminist Standpoint Perspectives to Analyze a Panel Discussion and Promote Enduring Impact".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44219 Internet.  22 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_44219}
  Renee M. Desing, Susan Sajadi, Christina Anlynette Alston, Stephanie A Damas, Gabriella Torres, and Corin L. Bowen.
  "Work in Progress: Developing Methods from Feminist Standpoint Perspectives to Analyze a Panel Discussion and Promote Enduring Impact".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44219 Internet.  22 Jan, 2025

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author = "Renee M. Desing, Susan Sajadi, Christina Anlynette Alston, Stephanie A Damas, Gabriella Torres, and Corin L. Bowen"
title = "Work in Progress: Developing Methods from Feminist Standpoint Perspectives to Analyze a Panel Discussion and Promote Enduring Impact"
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AB  - This is a Work in Progress (WIP) method paper submission. 

Panel discussions have been widely used to provide diverse perspectives on pressing topics within academic and non-academic communities. Individuals participating in panels are usually brought together to express a wide range of views related to the topics chosen and to combine ideas, studies, and lived experiences. We see an opportunity to extend panel discussions to have enduring impact and to broadly disseminate the discourse created during the sessions. The incorporation of panel discussions as a research endeavor has the potential to broaden researchers' ways of knowing, yet knowledge transfer from panel conversations to peer-reviewed publications has to this point been minimal. 

This paper highlights methods for analyzing panel discussions, discourse content, and panelist reflection to produce research results, new insights, and field recommendations. We explore the use of an autoethnographic, collaborative inquiry approach and qualitative coding of the panel transcript as effective methods for analyzing panel discussions and capturing the information and ideas presented in peer-reviewed publications. We pursue this endeavor through an explicit standpoint of feminist epistemology, recognizing that our varying positionalities impact our methodological approaches and our analyses of these methodologies. As women in STEM, we leverage two of the four dimensions of Black Feminist Standpoint Theory (BFT): (1) lived experiences of Black women viewed as a criterion of meaning and (2) the use of dialogue to access knowledge claims. We expand these dimensions to all women by leveraging feminist theory, which emerged from BFT.

We find the method presented especially impactful for topics related to broadening participation in engineering. The typical engineer’s identity in the United States has changed over time, particularly regarding gender, race, and ethnicity; but marginalized groups are still vastly underrepresented and their perspectives remain unvalidated within engineering and engineering education spaces. This paper is based on a panel of six early career women engineers in the academy. We illustrate how we utilized the method presented to explore our own personal and research experiences and provide our cultural definition of the state of women in engineering that was produced during our panel discussion. The method presented is a means for each engineer to contribute their distinct but overlapping personal, professional, and research experiences to create one unified message.

Together, we believe our experiences revealed unique insights worth capturing, and this paper will show transparency in our process - a process that may be replicable by participants on other panels. We hope to capture this method to help other minoritized or marginalized groups amplify their voices within the engineering and engineering education fields, furthering the calls for systemic change.
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AU  - Susan Sajadi
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AU  - Stephanie A Damas
AU  - Gabriella Torres
AU  - Corin L. Bowen
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DA  - 2023/06/25
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