Carla Romney

Boston University School of Medicine

Dr. Carla Romney is STEM education researcher who studies implementations of high-impact best practices in pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate school settings with a focus on reducing disparities in STEM retention, persistence, and achievement. Carla is passionate about designing, planning, implementing, and assessing interventions that are grounded in an understanding of local and national data to improve talent development in STEM.

Her research and practice focus on bolstering the talent pipeline and supporting workforce development efforts in STEM, particularly in the biomedical/biotechnology fields. Carla has 20 years of higher education experience at Boston University and Fordham University. She has extensive familiarity with Federal STEM research and workforce development grant programs and has secured $10M to support pre-college and undergraduate STEM education research efforts. She has been a member and chairperson of many grant review panels for STEM education research and talent expansion projects.

Areas of Expertise

• Education
• Health and Medicine
• Pre-college STEM education

Methodology

• Experimental
• Focus Groups
• Interviews
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods
• Quantitative Methods
• Social Network Analysis
• Survey Methods and Questionnaires