Penny A. Pasque

Penny A. Pasque is professor in Educational Studies in the College of Education and Human Ecology. In addition, she is founding director of the QualLab research center and editor of The Review of Higher Education, an ASHE journal & one of the leading research journals in the field. She coordinates the Qualitative Inquiry in Education (QIE) certificate and ESQUAL courses at Ohio State. Pasque is one of the leading qualitative researchers in the US and Canada focusing on research design congruence and quality. She uses qualitative methodologies & methods in her research designs, studies (post)qualitative methodologies & methods, and teaches scholars about the various qualitative approaches at their disposal for research that works toward social justice and equity. Her work on Critical Advocacy Inquiry (with Carducci) is becoming an important new contribution that connects both critical and transformative/participatory paradigmatic approaches.