Autoethnography of a State Senator Who Formed a Research Institute Where Researchers May Find Greater Purpose Helping Humanity in the Private Sector
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Panel
Start Date
12-1-2021 2:30 PM
End Date
12-1-2021 2:50 PM
Abstract
The doctoral journey has a deeply meaningful purpose for most everyone. I took my time to develop research that could add value to the published literature. I thought long and hard about the long-lasting value of my study. Most importantly, I wanted to help people. Within the first five years following my doctorate in health administration and a study entitled Women’s Deterrence of Obesity through Exercise Adherence: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis I presented at The Qualitative Report Conference (TQR11) in 2020, I started to serve as a doctoral mentor facilitating the creation of a doctoral engagement think tank. Earlier in 2018 after winning election as a Michigan State senator, I was able to fuse my doctorate work and soon discovered opportunities outside of the academy for doctoral trained researchers was possible. In the past year, I formed a new Michigan based research entity, Fifth Domain Research Institute (FDRI). Join me for my autoethnography perspective to learn how our institute mission can align to assist other doctoral graduates and candidates, where post-doctoral work has the potential to be funded in the real world. As I stated at TQR11 our doctoral efforts and our skills are not only ripe for academia, but with the help of FDRI those with the same passion I had at the onset of my doctoral journey and throughout, may be able to secure private sector funding and notoriety where efforts from you can be lifted to new humanitarian heights and recognition during and after the current pandemic.
Keywords
autoethnography, doctoral, studies, humanitarian, efforts, private sector, funding
ORCID ID
0000-0002-6779-4059
ResearcherID
p-3327-1822
Autoethnography of a State Senator Who Formed a Research Institute Where Researchers May Find Greater Purpose Helping Humanity in the Private Sector
The doctoral journey has a deeply meaningful purpose for most everyone. I took my time to develop research that could add value to the published literature. I thought long and hard about the long-lasting value of my study. Most importantly, I wanted to help people. Within the first five years following my doctorate in health administration and a study entitled Women’s Deterrence of Obesity through Exercise Adherence: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis I presented at The Qualitative Report Conference (TQR11) in 2020, I started to serve as a doctoral mentor facilitating the creation of a doctoral engagement think tank. Earlier in 2018 after winning election as a Michigan State senator, I was able to fuse my doctorate work and soon discovered opportunities outside of the academy for doctoral trained researchers was possible. In the past year, I formed a new Michigan based research entity, Fifth Domain Research Institute (FDRI). Join me for my autoethnography perspective to learn how our institute mission can align to assist other doctoral graduates and candidates, where post-doctoral work has the potential to be funded in the real world. As I stated at TQR11 our doctoral efforts and our skills are not only ripe for academia, but with the help of FDRI those with the same passion I had at the onset of my doctoral journey and throughout, may be able to secure private sector funding and notoriety where efforts from you can be lifted to new humanitarian heights and recognition during and after the current pandemic.