CV: Arne Collen

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Ph.D. in General-Experimental and Physiological Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1971;

M.A. in Developmental Psychology and Psychophysiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1968;

B.A. in Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, 1965.

The Project" - a major initiative, eventually a consortium involving several institutions (Saybrook being the hub of the wheel), sponsors, and funders - is being developed as a Specialization in the Human Science Program. The aim is to converge graduate studies on Architecture, Design, Art, and Human Science (ADAHS). Opportunity for students and faculty to work in the specialization toward dissertations, theses and projects will become available. Any interest in ADAHS should be directed to acollen@saybrook.edu (Arne Collen). 

Collen, A. (2010, July). Research proficiencies in human inquiry applied to doctoral level distance education. Paper presented at the Seventeenth World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Gothenburg, Sweden. 

Collen, A. (2009, June). Auto/biography meets phenomenology, research illuminating a living methodology. Paper presented at the Annual International Human Science Research Conference, Molde, Norway. 

Collen, A. (2007, October). Documenting collaborative arts based inquiry. Presentation to the Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.

Collen, A. (2007, October). A confluence of disciplines to study architectural phenomena in the human habitation of space: Projects for future collaboration. Presentation to the Department of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Collen, A. (2005, August). Some limits and possibilities concerning the use of systemic perspectives to research social phenomena in human organizations. Paper presented at the World International Congress of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Collen, A. (2003, August). Vulnerabilities of doing human science research. Paper presented at the International Human Science Research conference, Stockholm, Sweden.

Collen, A. (2002, August). Systems thinking in the review of research with human participants: Reflections on managing complexity and change. Paper presented at the forty-sixth annual meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Collen, A. (2002, July). The review of research with human participants as a sociocybernetic system. Paper presented at the fifthteenth world congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia.

Collen, A. (2002, April). Research ethics in action: Cybernetic, praxiological, and systemic perspectives in an evaluation system. Paper presented at the sixteenth European meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, Vienna, Austria.

Collen, A. (1999, May). Praxiology and sociocybernetics in human inquiry. Paper presented at the Research Committee 51 Conference of the International Sociological Association, Kolimbari Chanion, Crete, Greece.

Collen, A. (1998, October). Closing the gap between systemic research and therapeutic practice. Invited address to the Congress of Systems Therapy, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

The theme of my graduate work with students and base of my expertise and experience have been research methodology for human inquiry. I have been doing research with human participants, supervising graduate level research, and teaching research methods and data processing procedures for four decades. One way to convey my experience is to list what I have done with students under theses and dissertations supervised, courses taught, publications, and presentations. Many of my courses involved hands-on work giving oversight to student research. The lists fall short of communicating in precise detail my hands-on experience doing research, but there is great overlap. A list of these dissertations and theses under my supervision as well as my cv listing my presentations, publications and unpublished research are available by request. I especially enjoy working with students who share a common interest in advancing research methodology, that is, research oriented dissertations, theses, and projects that involve any innovation and improvement in ways we do human oriented research.

I work chiefly with the research methods curriculum. Over the course of my career I have been an instructor many times for the following courses: Disciplined Inquiry and Methods of Research, Understanding Research, Experimental Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, Case Study Research, Action Research, Arts Based Inquiry, and Research Practicum. Also, on occasion I arrange an Independent Study course with a student for a specific research skill area in which I have expertise, because of the studentís special need which is not included in an established course. At the essay stage, I usually help students with the so-called Method Essay. Once a doctoral candidate, my best role is chairing the dissertations, but I do supervise many projects as a committee member to provide methodological expertise.

RESEARCH COURSES PROVIDED IN MY CAREER: Action Research; Advanced Seminar in Theoretical Issues: Modes of Inquiry; Applied Research Methods and Statistics; Case Study Methodology in Organizations; Conduct of Inquiry; Critical Thinking and Argument Analysis; Disciplined Inquiry and Methods of Research; Dissertation Research Seminar; Dissertation Supervision; Ethnography in Organizations; Evaluation Research; Experimental Research Methods; Human Systems Inquiry; Independent Study: Autobiography as Research Method ; Independent Study: Statistics in Clinical Psychology; Independent Study: Multivariate Analysis; Living Systems Process Analysis; Multivariate Statistical Analyses; Observational Research; Overview of Methods for Disciplined Inquiry; Program Evaluation; Psychological Testing; Psychometrics, Research Design, and Statistics; Qualitative Analysis; Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Analysis; Quantitative Research Methods; Questionnaire Construction and Evaluation; Research Design; Research Interviewing; Research Practicum; Researching Complex Problems in Organizational Settings; Statistics; Survey Design; Systems Design; Systemic Research Methodology in Organizations; Systems Research Methods; Test Construction and Evaluation; Thesis Supervision; Understanding Research.

RESEARCH METHODS AND TRADITIONS that I have studied and practiced span widely over my academic and professional career. In lieu of attempting to rate methods (listed below), the best way I know to communicate them to you is to state those found in the dissertations and theses for which I have served as chief research methodologist:

Archival historical, Autobiographical, Case Study,Correlational, Descriptive, Dialogic, Evaluative, Experimental, Focus groups, Grounded theory, Hermeneutic, Heuristic, Mythic, Observational, Participatory action (systems-oriented), Phenomenological, Psychobiographical, Psychohistorical, Psychological Testing, Psychophysiological, Research Interviewing, Simulation, Survey, Theoretical, Theoretical (theory of general systems-oriented, Visual arts based inquiry, and Web site based Internet research.

DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURES involve means to work with data in the form of pictures, numbers, and words. I have executed and supervised others doing the following with data: Analysis of variance, Analysis of covariance, Chi-square analysis, Content analysis, Conversation analysis, Correlational analysis, Demographics, Factor analysis, Psychometrics, Regression analysis, Semiotics, Thematic analysis and synthesis, and Within and Cross Case analysis.

Research Expertise Rating Guide:

1. studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
2. special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
3. taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
4. used in research myself
5. published or presented at conferences my research using this method

Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)

Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods

Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)

Types of Analysis