Christina Selby, associate professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Culture, is keeping her academic, scholarly, and family lives all spinning during the COVID-19 isolation period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From her home office, Selby teaches two upper-level health communication classes and a communication capstone course. Though she\u2019s experienced in online teaching, she\u2019s expanded her pedagogical repertoire this semester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have\nlearned new tools through this process that have allowed me to interact on a\nmore personal level with all of my students, especially in the virtual format,\u201d\nsaid Selby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selby\u2019s scholarly field is health communication, and her work is quantitative, survey-based research. Her current project is on children and eating habits \u2013 a particularly relevant topic these days of home-based cooking and eating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRight now, I\nam knee-deep in research about factors contributing to healthy\/unhealthy eating\nand picky eating among children,\u201d said Selby. \u201cMy colleagues and I are\nwondering, who has the control over children\u2019s diets? Is it the parents\n(or caretakers), the kids themselves, the media, or is it some other influence?\nWho has the most influence \u2013 female or male caregivers? How is this\ninfluence different for younger and older children? We are currently\ndigging into our data and drawing some interesting conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A mother of\ntwo, Selby is also becoming experienced in home schooling as well as spending\ntime with family and (one at a time) friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have currently been brushing up on cold-blooded and\nwarm-blooded animals (or some other topic that I have not thought about in\ndecades) while homeschooling my second grader; social distance walking outside\nwith a friend; cooking dinner every night, which I previously did not have time\nto do; spending time with my husband and kids (we are usually pulled in some\nmany different directions); and establishing new norms and a new routine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n