The 2025 EHE Research Forum was held Thursday, February 20, 2025 from 8am-3:30pm. Once again, it was held in the Ohio Union.

If you have any questions, please contact Matt Eveland.

The full research forum schedule is below:

Keynote Speaker:

Penny Pasque, Professor, Educational Studies
Higher Education & Student Affairs | Ed Philosophy, History, Policy, Learning Tech+ (affiliate)
ESQUAL Program Coordinator | Qualitative Inquiry in Education (QIE) certificate coordinator
Director, QualLab research center, Department of Educational Studies

Penny A. Pasque, PhD, is considered one of the leading qualitative research experts in human sciences and education and editor of the Review of Higher Education, one of the top journals in her field. Notably, she has been sought out by U.S. legislators to weigh in on the future of actionable research, serves as consultant for research studies with the NSF & NIH, and has participated in visioning meetings with Spencer and other Foundations. In addition, she has led large- and small-scale research studies that have utilized qualitative methods. Pasque has received seed grants from Ohio State’s Chronic Brain Injury program and the Presidential Excellence grant, which helped her obtain a Department of Defense grant with an international team of scholars and works collaboratively on this project with the QualLab post-doc and graduate research associates. Pasque has been sought after to keynote addresses and workshops in-person and virtual that educate social science, natural science, and humanities scholars on rigorous qualitative methods congruent with their stated approach. Pasque is an ACPA Senior Scholar Diplomate (awarded in 2024) and Diamond Honoree (class of 2011).

She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and handbook chapters in the content area of qualitative inquiry, higher education, and related areas. In press is Pasque’s book, Critical & Social Justice: Key Concepts in Qualitative Research, which is Routledge’s version of an encyclopedia in the current day. Recent related publications include, Advancing Qualitative Inquiry toward Methodological Inclusion (with McMillian), Advancing culturally responsive research and researchers: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods (with alexander), Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research (with Lechuga), Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Higher Education: Methodological Innovations, Implications, and Interventions (with Carducci, Kuntz & Gildersleeve), and Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Foundations and Futures (with Cannella & Salazar Pérez). Pasque’s research in this area appears in journals such as Review of Educational Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, and Qualitative Research in Education, to name a few.