Crafting Lectures/Activities from Research

Audience/Context:

Faculty pedagogical workshop, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting (August 2025) and Lincoln Land Community College (October 2025)

Focus:

Translating original research into teaching materials

Methods:

Interactive 60-minute workshop with lecture, demonstration, and guided activity

Description:

Drawing from our study “Who Can Refuse? Attitudes About the Fertility Decisions of Wives and Husbands” (Oslawski-Lopez & Tabor 2024) and related TRAILS resource, this workshop modeled how to build course activities from published research. Participants engaged in a TRAILS resource demonstration and brainstormed strategies for connecting scholarship to teaching.

Outcomes:

Faculty explored methods for converting research into active-learning exercises.

Collaborator:

Jamie Oslawski-Lopez (Indiana University - Kokomo)