Faculty members and students in
the College of Health and Public Affairs conduct a
wide variety of sponsored research programs. These
include:
• basic research and training programs funded
by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute
of Justice and U.S. Department of Education
• applied, community-based research programs funded by government, private and
nonprofit organizations, and foundations
A list of sponsored research programs
in the College of Health and Public Affairs is available
through the UCF Office of Research and Commercialization’s
online database, My
Research. The database can be searched by college, school, department,
faculty member, funding organization or topic.
RAMP and McNair Scholar Claudia Nunez and Associate Professor Kenyatta Rivers
in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders won first place in the Social Sciences ll category at the university's 2007 Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence for their work on "Communication Disorders Professionals' Perceptions about Death and Dying." Click here for photos and a list of all SURE award recipients from the department.
Did you know?
In spring 2006, Denise Gammonley, assistant professor of social work, was named a 2006-2008 Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar and will receive $100,000 over the next two years from the John A. Hartford Foundation to fund this study.
Less-Lethal Weapon Effectiveness, Use of Force, and Suspect and Officer Injuries
Ross Wolf, assistant professor of criminal justice, and Charlie Mesloh
(Public Affairs-Criminal Justice Track, '02) of Florida Gulf Coast University received a $99,856 research grant from the National Institute of Justice to analyze less-lethal force utilization at two major metropolitan police agencies in Central Florida. During their five-year analysis, completed in summer 2007, they reviewed more than 4,000 cases of use of force in the two agencies. The study broke down officer-suspect confrontation to iterations of force, examining each use of force encounter as a combination of sub-conflicts, or iterations.
Ecuador’s public officials are better poised to develop and implement more efficient and equitable health policies thanks to a two-year study conducted by Antonio Trujillo, associate professor of health services administration, and his colleagues Gustavo Angeles from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Alexandra Lastra from the Secretaria del Frente Social in Ecuador.
Gene Paoline, assistant professor of criminal justice and legal studies, in collaboration with William Terrill of Michigan State University, has received a $376,255 grant from the National Institute of Justice to assess differences in less-than-lethal use of force policies used by law enforcement agencies and how these differences impact a variety of outcomes.
The research will be funded for two years, and the data collected will allow Paoline and Terrill to recommend strategies for policy development regarding the use of force.
Psychosocial Care of Nursing Home Residents
Denise Gammonley, assistant professor of social work, in collaboration with Ning “Jackie” Zhang, assistant professor of public affairs, are studying Nursing Home Psychosocial Care for Older Adults with a History of Mental Health Treatment.
The study’s goal is to gain a better understanding of how facility organizational characteristics, resident characteristics and the quality of psychosocial care affect the well-being of older adults in nursing homes.
The team is basing its study on nationwide data available in the public affairs’ Informatics Research Lab.
