Richard Blissett

He primarily focuses on political psychology and communication in education policymaking. His current research program focuses on attitudes towards race-conscious and other forms of justice-oriented policy. One half of this work seeks to understand how these beliefs are formed and the spaces in which these beliefs are translated into action, as well as to assess information communication-based interventions that might change people’s beliefs. Work in this area has included research on democratic structures in education governance (particularly, school boards) as well as anti-racism activism and social movements in education. The other half of this work is focused on the use of computational natural language processing techniques for examining educational equity policy discourse in large text corpora. His research methods are primarily quantitative with a focus on computational social science (including text analysis), particularly through R, Stata, and Python. See his personal website for more details.