ABE Biocomplexity Engineering seminar

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Speaker:
Dr. Mason Mathews

Title:
ABE Biocomplexity Engineering seminar:”What makes academic-nonprofit partnerships work? Measuring agreement in participant beliefs regarding success.”

Bio:
Mason Mathews is an assistant professor in the Geography Department at Florida State University. He graduated from the University of Florida’s Interdisciplinary Ecology doctoral program (Human Geography) and worked extensively with UF’s Center for Latin American Studies. Mason is interested in social networks and social capital theories and methods and how they can be combined with geographic information systems to understand how communities and individuals respond to social, economic, and environmental shocks. Mason is also interested in how qualitative ‘thick’ data can be combined with quantitative ‘big data’ to enhance our understanding of human behavior. As a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Natural Hazard Center, he worked on convergence research designed to enhance collaboration between hazards and disaster researchers. As an assistant research professor at Arizona State University, he studied academic-nonprofit partnerships, including the research he will present in this webinar.