Debbie Miller | University of Nebraska Lincoln (original) (raw)

I am a culturally responsive inquiry methodologist with 25 years of experience across social science disciplines. Born to American parents, I spent my first 18 years in southern Africa. I have studied wide variations in structure from microculture to comparisons and syntheses of macro culture. I hold a PhD in quantitative, qualitative, & psychometric methods with a dissertation titled Tacit Cultural Knowledge: An Instrumental Qualitative Case Study of Mixed Methods Research in South Africa. I also hold an M.S. degree in survey methodology with a minor in cultural anthropology.

In the classroom, I have taught introductions to research, qualitative methods, mixed methods, statistics, survey methodology, and dissertation writing through face-to-face or distance media. I have taught at the U of Illinois, the U of Nebraska-Lincoln, Xi’an U in China, and the U of Pretoria in South Africa. I continue to serve as an adjunct instructor of research methods in Doane U's Doctor of Education program.

As a consultant, my clients have included Harvard U, the U of Ghana, Stellenbosch U, the U of Michigan, the Nebraska U system, the World Bank, and Community Action, with African-based work in Ghana, Lesotho, South Africa, and Tanzania. I have also presented a workshop at Cambridge University, consulted on large multilateral projects, and completed internships at the U.S. Census Bureau & the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture.

Relative to research life cycles, I guide study design, instrument development, data collection, data management & processing, data analysis, interpretation, the integrity of meaning, and articulation of methodology. In addition to actively collaborating with clients concerning inquiry methodology for ethnocultural, gender, and neurological diversity, I particularly enjoy mentoring dissertation writers on qualitative methods, mixed methods, & integrative inquiry and have done so for over 60 such authors.
Supervisors: John W. Creswell, Advisor, Jenn Rutt, Supervisor, and Alian Kasabian

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