
Joyce Duckles
Associate Professor (Clinical)Counseling & Human Development
PhD, University of Rochester (human development)
Joyce Duckles specializes in family studies, community development, informal learning, and qualitative grounded theory and participatory research practices. Her current research includes an eight-year ethnographic collaborative project on urban community transformation, an investigation of the processes and outcomes of the training and education program “Engaging Older Adult Learners as Health Researchers (ENGOAL),” which aims to engage older adults from underserved and under-resourced communities as participants in health research, and a collaborative mixed-methods study to understand how to support local food and health practices and co-construct spaces for healthy and sustainable change.
In November 2018, her community-university research team expanded to include ENGOAL graduates. Sankofa Communiversity was founded as an intergenerational, collaborative community of research, scholarship and social activism. With 17 community researchers and graduate student apprentices, this collaborative works as co-researchers, co-authors, co-implementers, and co-activists with shared values of remembering history, building community, and grounding their practices in research. They present widely on relational strategies and models of urban transformation and activism, on supporting neighborhood and family well-being, and on addressing inequalities and disparities across community and health through re-framing practices of collaborative research and publicly engaged scholarship.
In the News
- 8/26/2021Joyce Duckles discusses public scholarship on Center for Community Engagement podcast
- 10/02/2019Sankofa Communiversity: Embracing a safe space for building a vibrant Rochester community
- 9/06/2018Study on Healthy Urban Community Development Gets Support from UR’s CTSI Pilot Studies Program
- 8/15/2018ENGOAL Program: Crossing Boundaries and Making Strides
- 1/18/2018ENGOAL Program Creates Community of Emerging Health Researchers
- 1/08/2018New Book Documents Authentic, Collaborative Community Transformation Work in Rochester
- 7/24/2017University of Rochester Researchers Receive PCORI Community Engagement Award
- 12/07/2015Video: Engaging Students Inside the Classroom, and Out
- 3/30/2014Joyce Duckles on Family Engagement in Democrat & Chronicle
- 3/29/2014Freedom Market Transformation Project Featured in Democrat & Chronicle
- 9/12/2013Partners in Transforming an Urban Community
- 5/03/2013Making the Connections: Classroom to Community
- 1/18/2012Warner School to Show Going on 13 Documentary as Part of Human Development Series
- 10/10/2011Film Showing, Discussion for Babies Looks at Contemporary Parenting Across Cultures
- 2/04/2010Doctoral Student Quoted in Chicago Tribune, ACM articles on Early Science Learning
Courses
ED418 The Family and Social Dynamics
ED507 Qualitative Research Methods
EDE429 Informal Learning - Informal Education
ED429 Theories of Human Development
EDU572 Development of Selves
ED406 Master's Research Methods
ED419 Life Course Studies
EDU557 Selected Theories of Human Development
ED494 Research & Praxis in Human Development
EDE493 Navigating Illness with Children and Families: A Child Life Approach
ED481 School, Family, and Community Relations