Shannon Lawrence

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Shannon Lawrence is a researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), responsible for research design, instrument development, data collection, and analysis. She currently works as part of a collaborative team on the The Future of Scholarly Communication project.

Past work includes serving as the assistant director of the Higher Education in the Digital Age program area at CSHE, where she coordinated a two-year foundation-funded evaluation of technology enhancements in a large lecture course and co-edited a volume on distance learning efforts in research universities. Ms. Lawrence has collaborated on national and statewide research and evaluation projects while acting as training and evaluation specialist at the California Social Welfare and Education Center (CalSWEC). She has also contributed to projects at the Service-Learning Research and Development Center and the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. 

Ms. Lawrence holds an M.A. in education from the UC Berkeley, with a focus on social and cultural studies, and a B.A. in communications from UC San Diego.

Recent publications include:

The Influence of Academic Values on Scholarly Publication and Communication Practices. Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and C. Judson King. Journal of Electronic Publishing 10, no. 2 (Spring 2007)

The Regulation of E-learning: New National and International Policy Perspectives. Diane Harley and Shannon Lawrence. CSHE.1.07. (September 2006)

Report: Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models. C. Judson King, Diane Harley, Sarah Earl-Novell, Jennifer Arter, Shannon Lawrence, and Irene Perciali. Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. (July 27, 2006)

Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Diane Harley, Jonathan Henke, Shannon Lawrence, et al. CSHE.11.06. (April 2006)

An Analysis of Technology Enhancements in a Large Lecture Course. Diane Harley, Michael Maher, Jonathan Henke, and Shannon Lawrence. Educause 26, no. 3 (August 2003)

Costs, Culture, and Complexity: A Two-year Analysis of Technology Enhancements in a Large Lecture Course at UC Berkeley. Diane Harley, Jonathan Henke, Shannon Lawrence, Flora McMartin, Michael Maher, Marytza Gawlik, and Parisa Muller. CSHE.3.03. (March 2003)