Community-Based
Sociological Research
Community-Based Sociological Research
Approaching our work through the lens of asset-based community development practices, I and a group of five other graduate students, along with our professor, spent 150 combined hours in the Curtis Bay and Brooklyn neighborhoods of Baltimore, MD. There, we worked alongside community-based nonprofits to complete the following research projects:
Literature review of youth workforce development programs including best practices
Quantitative survey and analysis of community needs and opinions on how to repurpose a former bank building
Qualitative interview and thematic analysis of youth participants in a workforce development program
Logic model of the Baltimore Builders program
My main contributions to the project were leading the logic model project and thematic analysis of the interviews, as well as playing a major role in the survey data cleaning, recoding, and analysis using SPSS.