Sarah Bunnell
Director - Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor
Department: Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
Email: sbunnell@elon.edu
Phone number: 5503.
Brief Biography
Dr. Sarah L. Bunnell is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning and an Associate Professor of Psychology. She is past-president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, an ISSOTL Distinguished Service Award winner, and was recently selected as a Gardner Institute Russell Edgerton Innovation Fellow, which “recognizes distinctively innovative contributions to improving postsecondary education and student success.” A co-author of Being Human in STEM (2023, Routledge), Sarah is passionate about building student-faculty-staff partnerships to enhance teaching, learning, and thriving across educational spaces. Her research merges her disciplinary training in developmental and cognitive psychology with her 20 years of work in faculty development and SoTL.
Education
Ph.D., Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, University of Kansas
M.A., Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, University of Kansas
B.A., Neuroscience, Middlebury College
Publications
Recent publications
Bunnell, S.L. & McGowan, S. (2024). The Ceremony of a SoTL Welcome: The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a Case Study. Transformative Dialogues, 17(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.26209/td2024vol17iss11799
Bunnell, S.L., Chick, N., Hamilton, M., Leoni, A.S., & Woolmer, C. (2024). Generations of SoTL Scholars: Transferable Lessons and New Possibilities. Transformative Dialogues, 17(1). doi https://doi.org/10.26209/td2024vol17iss11801
Zhang, E., Hundley, C., Watson, Z., Farah, F., Bunnell, S.L., & Kristensen, T. (2023). Learning by Doing: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Impact of Citizen Science Education. Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21810
Chung, J., Bunnell, S.L., Lopez, A.M., & Olshansky, J.H. (2023). Leveraging Student-Faculty-Staff Partnerships to Implement Inclusive Curricular Reform in Chemistry Education. Journal of Chemical Education. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c01190
Bunnell, S.L., Jaswal, S.J., & Lyster, M.B. (2023). Being Human in STEM: Partnering with Students to Shape Inclusive Practices and Communities. Routledge.
Schmalzbauer, L., Jaswal, S., Corañez-Bolton, S., Bunnell, S.L., & Trapani, J.G. (2022). Critical Empathy in the Liberal Arts: Sociological Imagination as a Mechanism for Re-envisioning Interdisciplinary STEM Education. In S. Mandal (Ed.), Roadmap for Humanities & Social Sciences in STEM Higher Education. Springer.
Totton, R., Bunnell, S.L., Kneeland, E., McQuade, J., Palmquist, C., & Sanderson, C. (2022). Psychology can change the world: Integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into Introduction to Psychology. In M. Fortner & I. Katzarska-Miller (Eds.), Empowering Students as Change Agents in Psychology. Scholarship for the Teaching of Psychology (e-book). Available for download at: http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/empoweringstudents
Bunnell, S.L., Felten, P. & Matthews, K.E. (2022). Toward trust in SoTL: The role of relational ethics. In L.Fedoruk (Ed.), Ethics and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Springer.
Bunnell, S.L. (2022). A Whole Person Model of Student Success Advising in the Liberal Arts. In M. Kek & H. Huijser (Eds.), Student Support Services: Exploring impact on student engagement, experience and learning. Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-981-13-3364-4_14-1.
Bunnell, S.L., Lyster, M.B., Greenland, K.B., Mayer, G., Gardner, K., Leise, R., Kristensen, T., Ryan, E., Ampiah-Bonney, & Jaswal, S.S. (2021). From Protest to Progress through Partnership with Students: Being Human in STEM (HSTEM). International Journal for Students as Partners, 5(1), 26-46. doi: https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v5i1.4243