Secules, S., & Groen-McCall, C. J. (2019, April), To Be or Not To Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers' Hidden and Transitioning Identities  Paper presented at 2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia. 10.18260/1-2--31799

\bibitem{asee_peer_31799}
  Secules, S., \& Groen-McCall, C. J. (2019, April), \emph{To Be or Not To Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers' Hidden and Transitioning Identities}
  Paper presented at 2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia.
  10.18260/1-2--31799

Stephen Secules and Cassandra J. Groen-McCall.  "To Be or Not To Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers' Hidden and Transitioning Identities".  2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia, 2019, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://strategy.asee.org/31799 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_31799}
  Stephen Secules and Cassandra J. Groen-McCall.
  "To Be or Not To Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers' Hidden and Transitioning Identities".
  \emph{2019 CoNECD  - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity , Crystal City, Virginia, 2019, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://strategy.asee.org/31799 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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author = "Stephen Secules and Cassandra J. Groen-McCall"
title = "To Be or Not To Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers' Hidden and Transitioning Identities"
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year = "2019"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Since its inaugural conference last year, CoNECD has established an emerging community that brings the exploration of diversity and inclusion to the forefront of engineering education, particularly for hidden-but-salient identity dimensions such as sexual orientation, disability, and first generation status. As researchers, we often think about these categories as student populations to be studied and of ourselves as outside or beyond these populations. However, frameworks such as identity and intersectionality theory remind us that all educational stakeholders - including researchers - also maintain multiple identity dimensions. While researchers with normative and privileged identities typically do not have to think about the influence of their own identity dimensions on their research, they still embody and interact within these dimensions at all times.

We, the two co-authors of this paper, are engineering education researchers who hold partially hidden or less-apparent identities (i.e., LGBTQ and disabled). However, these identities were transitioned into during our adult professional lives, thus prompting significant reflection about those dimensions and how they inform our work and relationship to society, broadly. As education researchers with hidden identities, we also make constant choices regarding passing and disclosure during our research activities, and often must grapple with how to maintain both transparency and safety regarding our positionality.

In this dialogic paper, we each draw on our own experiences while conducting engineering education research with hidden and transitioning identities and the many dimensions of our work they impact. From this work, we draw conclusions for making education research more inclusive, for appreciating the many taken-for-granted areas of identity impacts on research, and for increasing all researchers’ awareness of their identity and positionality.

AU  - Stephen Secules
AU  - Cassandra J. Groen-McCall
CY  - Crystal City, Virginia
DA  - 2019/04/14
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - To Be or Not To Be: A Dialogic Discussion of Two Researchers' Hidden and Transitioning Identities
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