Franchesca Maria Lyra is a third-year doctoral student studying STEM Education at the University of Texas at Austin. She primarily utilizes quantitative methods in her work. Her main interests include high school/post-secondary biology classroom experiences and more broadly, equity in STEM education. She currently researches the impact of professor interactions as they relate to the experiences of undergraduate women and non-binary individuals in engineering.
Catherine Riegle-Crumb (Supervisor)Focuses on the social construction of gender and racial/ethnic inequality in educational opportunities and experiences in STEM fields from a sociological perspective. Methodological expertise in quantitative research methods and analyses of large scale datasets.
Limeri, L., Carter, N., Lyra, F., Mastronardo, H., Patel, J. & Dolan, E. (2022). Undergraduate Lay Theories of Abilities: Mindset, universality, and brilliance beliefs uniquely predict undergraduate educational outcomes.
Lyra, F. (2021). What Does My Professor Think of Me? Demographic Diversity in Relation to Professor Mindset Beliefs. The Ronald E. McNair Scholars Research Journal, 133.
McNair Doctoral Fellow, McNair Scholars (2021 - 2022)
