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Office of Research

Faculty Labs & Research 

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As part of a Tier One public research institution, our faculty in the UH College of Education engage in innovative scholarship on society’s most pressing issues in education and health. Collaboration is valued — across disciplines, with students and with community partners. Our researchers have received funding from a variety of agencies, including the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and private foundations.

Research Clusters

  • Childhood development
  • College access and success
  • Curriculum and instruction
  • Education policy
  • Families and relationships
  • Health disparities
  • K-12 education
  • Mental health
  • School leadership
  • Special education

Research Labs

Faculty research labs often offer opportunities for students to work as researchers; please contact the lab director if interested.

  • BOUNCE (Behavior Opportunities Uniting Nutrition, Coaching & Exercise)
    • Director:
    • BOUNCE is a community outreach and research initiative dedicated to reducing obesity-related diseases among underserved communities in Houston.
  • CORE Research Team (COping & REsilience)
    • Director:
    • The research team focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer health disparities.
  • I AM Lab (Identity & Academic Motivation)
    • Director:
    • The team’s research focuses on how students’ identity affects their motivation in school, with an emphasis on STEM subjects.
  •  
    • Director:
    • The research team studies ways to make mindfulness an integral part of the educational and social culture of diverse educational communities.
  • (National Center for Research on Educator Diversity)  
    • Director:  
    • The center serves as a research hub committed to dismantling inequity in teacher development systems through supporting the academic and professional advancement of diverse educators.  
  • PASS Research Team (Promoting Academic Skills Success)  
    • Director:  
    • The team’s research focuses on the use of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) to support students at-risk for poor academic outcomes.
  • Parent-Child Interaction Lab 
    • Director:
    • The lab’s work focuses on parent-child relationships and the ways in which those relationships and interactions affect early child development.
  • Social Development Lab
    • Director:
    • The team’s research focuses on how emotion socialization processes are embedded within, shaped by, and convey meaning for multilayered socio-cultural contexts.  
  • ACES in STEM Education Fellowship
    • Co-Principal Investigator:
    • This two-year training program for postdoctoral students focuses on research-practice partnerships to address challenges in STEM education.

The information above is not a comprehensive list of research activity in the College.