Listening, Reflecting, and Learning: A Methodology for Engineering Communication Research

Given the calls for increasing inclusion in engineering, engineering communication researchers must attend to who we include in our studies–and how power dynamics might influence the data our participants share with us. This methodology includes four elements: defining the field, accounting for stereotypes, selecting participants to include historically excluded individuals, and accounting for power dynamics between researcher and participants with the goal of better accounting for the experiences of minoritized participants.