Grants

Auburn University, College of Liberal Arts (2022). Research Support Program Seed Funding: $12,000; “Creating a DAtabank/ReposiTory for Scholars in Technical and Professional Communication”–DART

Auburn University, College of Liberal Arts (2020). New Faculty Summer Research/Creative Scholarship Grant: $6000

Auburn University, Department of English Recognition and Development Committee. (2019). Summer Research Funding: $9,500; “mHealth Apps & Usability.” This project continues work from the project described below. For final results, see our 2021 article in Technical Communication: STC-21-TechComm-Q3-Candice Welhausen_Kristen Marie Bivens

Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) (2018-2019). Career Advancement Research Grant with Kristin Bivens, Harold Washington College: $1,200; “mHealth Apps & Usability.” This project analyzes reviewer comments posted on the iOS and Android platforms for the emergency response app, PulsePoint. For preliminary results, see our Experience Report published in the 2019 SIGDOC Conference Proceedings.

University of Delaware General University Research Program. (2014-2016) $6000. “Instruction in Visual Communication in the Technical Communication Classroom: A Study of Teaching Practice.” My 2016 article in the Journal-of-Technical-Writing-and-Communication reports select results from this project.

Awards
Solving Problems in Technical Communication is the winner of the 2014 CCCC Award for Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication.