Educational Technology & Sexology
The SHaG lab also conducts research in the general areas of education and sexuality. This intersection is of interest because Dr. Numer often teaches the Human Sexuality course at Dalhousie. He has held numerous small grants in education and published four peer-reviewed articles on education technology. In addition, the team has been investigating how to leverage educational technology to conduct research on undergraduate students in an ethical manner.
With our first SSHRC Insight Development grant, we sought to investigate undergraduate university students’ attitudes, beliefs, values and practices related to sexual orientation and sexual consent. Our intent was to bring together educational technology and sexology to conduct an innovative mixed methods study that captured a diverse data set related to sex and sexuality. The findings explore how demographics such as race, class, immigration status, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and degree major relate to one’s attitudes, values, beliefs and practices. We also examined how social norms and cultural trends effect these specific areas of sexuality, and how these change over time.
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Joy, P., Crawford, Z., Sinno, J., Walters, J., & Numer, M. (2021). A poststructural discourse analysis of the attitudes, beliefs, and values of undergraduate Canadian university students regarding sexual orientation. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 30(3), 306-317.
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Matchett, B. A., & Numer, M. S. (2021). Optional or Obligatory? Exploring Undergraduate University Students ‘Attitudes, Opinions, and Beliefs Around Verbal Sexual Consent. Healthy Populations Journal, 1(2).
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Spencer, R., Sinno, J., Hatfield, K., Biderman, M., Doria, N., & Numer, M. (2020). Exploring Top Hat’s Impact on Undergraduate Students’ Belongingness, Engagement, and Self-Confidence: A Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 52(2), 197–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2020.1722977
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Numer, M., & Spencer, R. A. (2015). Bring your own device technology: Preliminary results from a mixed methods study to explore student experience of in-class response systems in post-secondary education. Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 13(1), 1-6.
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Numer, Matthew, and Rebecca Spencer. 2016. Technology and the Post-secondary Classroom: A Critical Inquiry into BYOD Student Experience in Human Sexuality. The International Journal of Technologies in Learning 24 (1): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.18848/2156-8960/CGP/v07i03/91-104