PAST PRESIDENTS
John Creswell
John Creswell is a Professor of Family Medicine and Senior Research Scientist of the Michigan Mixed Methods Program. He has authored numerous articles and 34 books on mixed methods research, qualitative research, and research design. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar to South Africa in 2008 and Thailand in 2012.
He was the founding President of the MMIRA, founding the organization in 2014.
Visit his website: johnwcreswell.com.
Pat Bazeley
Pat Bazeley is Director of Research Support P/L and an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University. She has worked in community development, evaluation, and academic research development. Her publications focus on qualitative and mixed methods data analysis and the use of software.
She serves on the Editorial Board of JMMR and was the President of the MMIRA from 2015 to 2016.
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie is a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University, Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg. With an h-index of 109 and more than 100,000 citations, he has secured the publication of more than 550 works. He is a founding member and past President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association.
He was President of the MMIRA from 2016 to 2017.
Cheryl N. Poth
Cheryl N. Poth is a Professor in the Centre for Research and Applied Measurement and Evaluation at the University of Alberta (Canada) and an award-winning instructor and author. Her teaching and research interests focus on enhancing research quality, designing complexity informed studies, and developing integrative research teams.
Cheryl was President of the MMIRA from 2017 to 2018.
Elizabeth G. Creamer
Elizabeth G. Creamer is professor emerita from the Educational Research and Evaluation Program in the School of Education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Research (2018), Advancing Grounded Theory with Mixed Methods (2021), and a third to be released in 2024, Leveraging Visual Displays in Mixed Method Qualitative Research.
Creamer served in elected positions on the MMIRA Executive Board from 2016 to 2020, serving as the fifth president from 2018 to2019.
Kathleen M. T. Collins
Kathleen M.T. Collins is a Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dr. Collins’ primary and current research interests have focused on MMR exclusively as it relates to design in the areas of sampling, validity, integration, and MMR analysis. She has served as lead editor of the book titled Toward a Broader Understanding of Stress and Coping: Mixed Methods Approaches (2010).
Dr. Collins served as conference chair (2017- 2018) and president of the MMIRA from 2019 to 2020.
Judith Schoonenboom, PhD
Judith Schoonenboom holds the chair for empirical pedagogy at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has extensive experience in designing and evaluating innovations in education. Judith specializes in mixed methods research in education, focusing on mixed methods design and the foundations of mixed methods research.
Judith was president of the MMIRA from 2020 to 2021.
Michelle Nichols
Michelle Nichols is an Associate Professor and Global Health Nurse Scientist at the Medical University of South Carolina. She uses mixed methods, community engaged research, and digital technology to address chronic health disparities and social determinants of health among under-resourced populations in the United States and within low-and middle incomes.
Michelle was president of the MMIRA from 2021 to 2022.
Vanessa Scherman, PHD
Vanessa Scherman has a Ph.D. in Assessment and Quality Assurance and is a former Professor and current NRF-rated researcher. Her specialization encompasses school effectiveness, the development of tests and questionnaires, and, more precisely, psychometrics. With over two decades of robust experience in academia and research, the approach combines various methodologies, focusing on designing and developing interventions and instruments in education and psychology within a mixed-methods framework.
Vanessa was president of the MMIRA from 2022 to 2023.
LORAINE D. COOK, PhD
Loraine D. Cook, PhD, is a Full Professor in Educational Psychology at the School of Education, University of the West Indies. Although now retired, she continues to serve as an adjunct lecturer in Research Methods and Educational Psychology at the Mona campus.
In 2011, she received the Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award, which allowed her to become a visiting scholar in Applied Psychology at New York University (NYU). In 2017, she was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, Language, and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Loraine is the founding and first president of the Mixed Methods International Research Association Caribbean Chapter and also served as the 10th president of the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) (2023-2024). Additionally, she is one of the founding editors and Co-Chief Editors of the Caribbean Journal of Mixed Methods Research (CJMMR).
Loraine was the first program manager of INSIGHTS into Children’s Temperament in Jamaica. She has conducted numerous workshops and seminars in Mixed Methods Research and has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles.