Research Participation Request: Understanding the experience of long-term recovery for K-12 schools from extreme events
Information:
Our project aims to better understand the experience of long-term recovery for K-12 schools from extreme events. More specifically, we aim to learn about the challenges to recovery, what schools need to recover, what resources they do use, and to identify what works and what doesn’t in facilitating a school’s recovery from a disaster or incidence of violence. To do so, we are interested in talking to folks who are or have worked in schools that experienced an extreme event. People from any number of roles from teachers, facilities personnel, guidance counsellor, principals, or even folks at the district level would be useful for us to interview as long as they can speak to some aspect of the school’s recovery. Interviews would take about an hour to an hour and a half, and can take place whenever is convenient for the interviewee, including after business hours. The interviews will be kept confidential, and participants will not be named in any of the outputs of the research. The interviews will be used in academic research outputs (including journal articles and conference presentations) and to inform development of recovery resources for K-12 schools recovering from extreme events.
Link:
If you are interested in participating, please contact Samantha Penta at spenta@albany.edu, to schedule an interview.
Contact:
Matthew Crayne, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the University at Albany mcrayne@albany.edu https://www.albany.edu/
Samantha Penta, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security at the University at Albany spenta@albany.edu https://www.albany.edu/cehc/
