Virtual Events and Webinars

Virtual Events and Webinars

Scheduled and Recent Events

Conducting Ethical Research with LGBTQIA+ Participants in STEM Education

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 
12:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET

Ethical research involving LGBTQIA+ individuals in STEM higher education requires more than procedural IRB compliance. Science and STEM education researchers must attend to confidentiality risks, identity fluidity, power dynamics, framework selection, recruitment hostility, re-identification risks, political threats to data ownership, and dissemination practices that may unintentionally erase or misrepresent minoritized communities.

This interactive virtual workshop presents a structured professional development model developed through PRISMATIC (Propagating Research Ethics around Sexual Marginalization and Transgender Issues Conference). Building upon prior local and national conference presentations and training and informed by professional development field testing, the PRISMATIC 2 training engages researchers in applied ethical discussion using authentic, research-based scenarios. Participants will engage in guided small-group discussions centered on realistic dilemmas across the research cycle, including: (a) token representation and community membership on research teams; (b) framework selection and survey design; (c) recruitment hostility and trauma-informed interviewing; (d) evolving gender identity in longitudinal education research; (e) re-identification risk; (f) political and legal threats to data confidentiality; and (g) how to avoid deficit-based comparison framing in proposals and research reports. By using structured prompts grounded in the Belmont Principles, and critically extending them (i.e., “Queering the Belmont Report”), participants will examine how respect for persons, beneficence, and justice can be operationalize in research involving LGBTQIA+ communities in contemporary educational and sociopolitical contexts.

The workshop is designed for equity and STEM education researchers, graduate students, faculty, journal reviewers, and research administrators. Participants will leave with practical decision-making tools and strategies after having engaged in applied reflection exercises to strengthen their understanding of ethical practices and how to protect LGBTQIA+ participants across all phases of their research.

Meet Your Speakers:

  • Dr. Beth Lewis (Dept. of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education)
  • Dr. Wendy Smith (Director, UNL Center for Transformative Teaching/Dept. of Mathematics), University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Registration Link: https://members.narst.org/event/ConductingEthicalResearchwithLGBTQIAinSTEMEd

 

Graduate Student Career Steps Webinar Series #12

Friday, June 26, 2026 
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET

Navigating the transition from graduate studies to a fulfilling career can feel overwhelming. With countless possibilities - academia, industry, government, non-profits, and beyond - graduate students often find themselves uncertain about which path to pursue or how to begin.

The Graduate Student Committee recognizes this challenge and is proud to organize the Career Steps Webinar Series, an engaging, monthly webinar series designed to illuminate multiple career trajectories, offer practical guidance, and foster meaningful connections within the NARST community.

This webinar series features accomplished PhDs and seasoned NARST members who have traversed the journey you are beginning. By sharing their personal stories - complete with challenges, pivotal moments, and unexpected opportunities - our speakers bring to life the myriad routes to career success.

More than mere inspiration, these sessions provide concrete strategies, resources, and networks you can leverage as you craft your own path. After all, one meaningful connection can be the spark that redefines your career trajectory.

Meet Your Speaker: Dr. Xiaoming Zhai Associate Professor of Science Education & Artificial Intelligence, The University of Georgia

Registration Link: https://members.narst.org/event/Career-Steps-Series12