CV: Kathia Castro Laszlo

Curriculum Vitae

Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses

Co-Chair of Research Team on Learning Systems for Sustainability. International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR), Pernegg, Austria, April 2010.

Presenter on From Systems Thinking to Systems Being at Change the Game Initiative symposium, Salzburg, Austria, April 2010.


Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution

Ph.D. Human Science, specialization Social and Institutional Change
Saybrook University, San Francisco, 2000

M.Ed. Cognitive Development
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, 1997

B.A. Marketing
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, 1992

Current Projects and Professional Activities

 

Current Publications

3. Leaders of Change: Social entrepreneurship and the creation of ecologies of solution. Action Learning and Action Research Journal, Vol. 15 No. 1, April 2009.

Important Conference Presentations


Research Interests

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Research Expertise


Expertise Working with Saybrook Students

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Research Expertise

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)

Laboratory Research
Field Experiments
Randomized Controlled Clinical
Quasi-experimental methods
Correlational Methods

Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods

Action Research 5
Survey Research 4
Interview Research 4
Observational Research 4
Epidemiological Research
Ethnography 2
Focus Groups 3
Self-Observational Methods
Narrative Methods
Feminist Methods
Content Analysis
Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy)
Events paradigm (psychotherapy)
Archival Research
Case History Methods
Appreciative Inquiry
Multiple Case Depth Research
Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design
Longitudinal research
Cross-sectional research

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

Ethnoautobiographical research
Hermeneutics 3
Grounded Theory 3
Phenomenology 3
Heuristic Research 3

Types of Analysis

Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.)
Confidence intervals
Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA)
Analysis of Covariance
Regression (including multiple regression)
Discriminant Function Analysis
Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis
Causal Modeling
Cluster Analysis
Survival Analysis
Nonparametrics
Bayesian Analysis
Meta-analysis and effect sizes
Factor Analysis
Time series analysis
Multidimensional scaling