Joy Pendley is an Associate Director of The Center for Faculty Excellence leading development in community engagement. She is also a Research Scientist at the Center for Applied Social Research, conducting the qualitative research for the NIH project titled Social Cognitive Influences on Scientific Research Careers among American Indians: RFA-GM-13-009; Research to Understand and Inform Interventions that Promote the Research Careers of Students in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences (R01). As a Professor of Practice, she teaches community engagement courses where undergraduate students learn action research methodology and work with community stakeholders to research concerns and develop action plans. Students have worked with Spanish-speaking leaders and organizations to address problems with severe weather communication and policy that negatively impact community members. Students have also partnered with Identity Coalition to provide policy research on state issued identification cards, with Academy Town Hall to research voting process and engagement in Oklahoma and with The Douglas (OKC) to provide affordable housing research and policy analysis to assist their development strategies.
You can reach Dr. Joy Pendley via email at pendley@ou.edu.
