Monica Gaughan Assistant Professor School of Public Policy monica.gaughan@pubpolicy.gatech.edu Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sociology Joined faculty in 2002 Research areas/interests Scientific careers and scientific labor force, gendered and racial opportunity structures and cultures, organization of biomedical research, teaching and learning pedagogy Honors   2001 Omicron Delta Kappa Faculty Appreciation Award (Oglethorpe University) 2001 Student Government Association Staff Award (Oglethorpe University) 2005 National Science Foundation Career Award Current and recent projects   Dr. Gaughan is currently a research associate on three studies of institutional impacts on scientific and technical career development. She is working on the NSF Advance project with Mary Frank Fox (principal investigator) to understand how organizational culture helps and hinders women's progress in academic careers. She is working on an NSF/DOE project (Barry Bozeman and Juan Rogers, principal investigators) to investigate how the organization of scientific laboratories affects the development of young scientists' careers. She is working on an NSF project (Donna Llewellyn and Marion Usselman) to survey how recent Georgia Tech graduates develop their career paths, with a special emphasis on information technology careers. Dr. Gaughan is also studying the science policies that affect breast cancer research priorities at the national level, and in Georgia. In particular, she is focusing on the organizational innovation of the Georgia Cancer Coalition, and contrasting it with traditional models of research organization. Research collaborators   Faculty at Tech: Barry Bozeman Elizabeth Corley Mary Frank Fox Donna Llewellyn Marion Usselman Students at Tech: Sooho Lee Min-Wei Lin   Faculty at other Institutions: Stephane Robin, Catholic University of Lille, France Recent publications   Gaughan, Monica and Stephane Robin. 2004. National Science Training Policy and Early Scientific Careers in France and the United States. Research Policy 33:569-581. Gaughan, Monica. 2003. Predisposition and Pressure: Mutual Influence and Adolescent Drunkenness. Connections 25:17-31. Gaughan, Monica, 2002, "Ethnography, Demography and Service-Learning:  Situating Lynwood Park" Critical Sociology 28:217-233. Gaughan, Monica and Barry Bozeman, 2002, "Impacts of Research Grants and Institutional Change on Scientists' Careers: Comparing  Center Funding with 'Small Science' Grants," Research Evaluation 11:17-26. Web sites http://www.spp.gatech.edu/faculty/faculty/mgaughan.php