Pamela Hardin
  • Associate Director, Learning Center
  • Associate Professor (Clinical), College Of Nursing
801-581-1107

Research Statement

My research is organized around the interactions between women, bodies, culture, and media representations of eating disorders.  I am interested cultural respresentations of the body, and how those representations result in health practices.  My scholarship focuses on the application of post-structuralist, post-feminist, and post-colonial methodological perspectives.

Research Keywords

  • Eating Disorders
  • History of the Body
  • Post-Structural Theory
  • Women's Health
  • Social and Cultural Influences on Health
  • Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Health Disparities
  • Discourse Analysis

Presentations

  • Transparent Assessments for Every Learner . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/13/2018.
  • Transparent Grading and Assessment: Annual Teaching Symposium Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Utah . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/14/2017.
  • Engaging Learners in Large Classrooms, University of Utah . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/14/2017.
  • Teaching Controversial Topics: Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Utah . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/15/2016.
  • Grading and Providing Feedback: Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/15/2016.
  • Five Strategies to Avoid Death by PowerPoint: Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/15/2016.
  • Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program, University of Utah: Practices in Online Learning. Presentation, Presented, 11/09/2015.
  • Annual Teaching Symposium: Center for Teaching and Learning. Plagiarism and Cheating. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/21/2015.
  • Teaching Workshop Series. Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Utah: Breathing New Life Into Your Course. Other, Presented, 09/2015.
  • Building Technology Educators Society 2015 International Conference: Breathing Life into the Classroom (with P. Tripeny). Presentation, Presented, 06/27/2015.
  • Teaching the Concept Curricula. ATI Annual Teaching Summit. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2015.
  • Five ways to find and reclaim your passion for Nursing. Utah Organization of Nursing Leaders Nurse Educator Conference/Academic Leadership Committee. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/2015.
  • Best Practices in Online Teaching . Presentation, Presented, 02/2015.
  • Backwards Design: Academy of Health Science Educators. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/30/2014.
  • Annual Teaching Symposium: Center for Teaching and Learning. Plagiarism and Cheating. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented,. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2014.
  • Five Ways to Find and Reclaim Your Passion for Teaching: College of Nursing Seminar Series. Presentation, Presented, 01/10/2014.
  • Annual Teaching Symposium: Center for Teaching and Learning. Plagiarism and Cheating. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/2013.
  • College of Nursing University of Utah: Seminar Series. Flipping the Classroom. Presentation, Presented, 11/30/2012.
  • Annual Teaching Symposium: Center for Teaching and Learning. Plagiarism and Cheating. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/16/2012.
  • CON seminar series: A Theoretical Framework, Practical Approaches for a Concept Based Curricula. Invited Talk/Keynote, Other, 10/2011.
  • Center for Teaching and Learning Annual Teaching Symposium: Plagiarism and Cheating, University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Other, 08/2011.
  • CON seminar series How to teach conceptually. Invited Talk/Keynote, Other, 03/2011.
  • University of Utah Women's Resource Center: Presentation on Body Image in Pacific Islander Women. Presentation, Presented, 10/2005.
  • Discursive Instability when Cultures, Bodies, and Media Collide. Political Ramifications for Researchers. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/2005.
  • Bodies, Health, and Immigration: Tongan Women Negotiating Cultural Spaces. Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference, 38th Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2005.
  • Session II: Research and Practice. Identifying Historical and Social Values. CAHDR (Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research) Spring Institute. University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2005.
  • Establishing a Program of Research Addressing Health Disparities: Reflections and Lessons. spring 2005 Teach-In. the Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research. University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2005.
  • On and Beyond the Lecture: Visual and Mediated Pedagogical Lessons from the Margins of Educational Practice: Engaging Students at a Distance. Brown Bag Educational Seminar Series. University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT. Presentation, Presented, 01/2005.

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

  • Comparing Tobacco Use Between Urban and Rural Youth; The Typical Utah Smoker. PI: Pamela K Hardin. Co-PI(s): Erin Rothwell, Janelle Lamarque. Utah State Department of Health, 03/2007 - 04/2008. Total project budget to date: $15,600.00
  • Outlining a Health Agenda with and for Polynesian Girls University of Utah College of Nursing Research Committee. PI: Pamela K Hardin. University of Utah College of Nursing Research Committee, 01/2004 - 01/2005. Total project budget to date: $2,946.00
  • Conversations with Tongan Women: Culture, History, and Health. PI: Pamela K Hardin. University of Utah Research Committee, 01/2003 - 01/2004. Total project budget to date: $4,073.00

Languages

  • English, fluent.

Publications

  • Pamela K. Hardin & Stephanie Richardson (2012). Teaching the Concept Curricula: Theory and Method. Journal of Nursing Education. Vol. 51(3), 155-59. Published, 01/27/2012.
  • Shape-shifting discourses of anorexia nervosa: reconstituting psychopathology. Nurs Inq, 10(4), 209-17. Published, 12/2003.
  • Constructing experience in individual interviews. Autobiographies, and on-line accounts: A poststructuralist approach. J Adv Nurs, 41(6), 536-544. Published, 03/2003.
  • Social and cultural considerations in recovery from anorexia nervosa: a critical poststructuralist analysis. ANS Adv Nurs Sci, 26(1), 5-16. Published, 01/2003.
  • The epidemiology of meaning: Causation, indeterminancy, and discourse analysis. Nursing Philosophy, 2(1), 163-176. Published, 12/2001.
  • Theory and language: Locating agency between free will and discursive marionettes. Nurs Inq, 8(1), 11-18. Published, 03/2001.