RESEARCH
Postnormal Social Research

current studies, past studies, articles and reports

Active Research Studies

  • 2023-2025
    My Identity In My Own Words
    survey study, software engineering, provocations
    This research explored how individuals characterize, define, and express their own identities through open fields. This large qualitative dataset is being used as preliminary data in the development of TMI-WEB, a new open source ecosystem for intersectional analysis, in collaboration with Coraline Ada Ehmke as Identity Research Lab.

  • 2024-2025
    A Chosen Family
    interview study
    This research explores how individuals characterize, describe, and express their own experiences with wanting or having a chosen family.

  • 2024-2025
    I'm Out: Nonbinary Presence
    documentary study
    This research explores how individuals characterize, describe, and express their own experiences with being nonbinary.

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Past Studies

  • 2022-2023
    Queer Impressions of Mental Time Travel and Futures
    interview study
    This research explored how Queer individuals characterized, described, and expressed their impressions of time travel and futures.

  • 2021-2022
    Inclusive Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    survey study
    This research measured individual and group attitudes towards artificial intelligence using the General Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence Scale (GAAIS).

  • 2021-2022
    Why I They/Them
    survey study
    This research explored how individuals characterized, described, and expressed their reasons for using they/them pronouns.

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Articles and Reports

  • Westbrook, J. (2024).Queering Futures with Data-driven Speculation: The Design of an Expanded Mixed Methods Research Framework Integrating Quantitative, Qualitative, and Practice-based Modes (Order No. 31298559). Available from Dissertations & Theses @ DePaul University; ProQuest Central; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global; Publicly Available Content Database. (3058416208). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/queering-futures-with-data-driven-speculation/docview/3058416208/se-2

  • Westbrook, J. (2023, October). Queering Futures with Data-Driven Speculation: the design of an expanded mixed methods research framework integrating qualitative, quantitative, and practice-based modes. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Association for Societies of Design Research (ISDR), Life-Changing Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

  • Westbrook, J. (2023, August). Queering Futures: the design of an expanded mixed methods research framework integrating qualitative, quantitative, and practice-based modes. In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Montreal, Canada.

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2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Montreal, Canada.