Education
2021 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Applied Linguistics
Department of Applied Linguistics, The Pennsylvania State University.
2015 Master of Arts in Composition and Applied Linguistics
Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino
2013 Bachelor of Arts in English Linguistics
Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino
2013 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino
Professional Qualifications
2015 Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL)
Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino
Relevant Professional Experience
Current: Lead, Knowledge Mobilization Research & Learning Enrichment in the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH, Toronto, ON, CAN
Post-Doctoral Fellow II at the Centre for Faculty Development, Department of Medicine Research, University of Toronto and Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, CAN
2020-2021 Legislation Researcher with the Research-to-Policy Collaboration, Penn State, PA, USA
2020 Instructor in Cross-cultural Mixed Methods Research, w. Dr. Robert W. Schrauf, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State
2018-2020 Instructor in ESL for Academic Writing, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State
2016-2020 Tester in American English Oral Communicative Proficiency Test for Graduate International Teaching Assistants (AEOCPT), Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State
2017-2019 Research Assistant to Dr. Robert Schrauf, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State
2018 Instructor in Language Policy and Planning, w. Dr. Sinfree Makoni, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State
2018 Instructor in Comparative International Research Methods, w. Dr. Robert W. Schrauf, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State
Publications
Diaz, B. A., Rieker, J., & Ng, S. (2023). Teaching critical reflection in health professions education with transformative-vygotskian praxis. Advances in Health Sciences Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-023-10209-y
Diaz, B., Campos, M., Škerbić, M., Mallett, C., & Lopez Frias, F. J. (2023). (In)justice on Ice: Valieva and international sport governing bodies’ justice duties toward underage athletes. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 17(1), 70–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2022.2099962
Diaz, B.A. & Schrauf, R.W. (Eds). (2023). Applying linguistics in health research, education, and policy: Bench to bedside and back again. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000757
Diaz, B.A. (2023). Discourses at work in elderly, health policy communication: Uncovering aspects of semantic preference and prosody in the rural opioid epidemic. In B.A. Diaz & R.W. Schrauf (Eds). Applying linguistics in health research, education, and policy: Bench to bedside and back again. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110744804-007
Konopasky, A. & Diaz, B.A. (2023). Functional and corpus linguistics in health professions education research. In J. Cleland & S.J. Durning (Eds). Researching Medical Education (2nd Edition). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119839446.ch15
Diaz, B. A. (2022). Finding social (mis)alignment in older adult and opioid health policy implementation with corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Applied Corpus Linguistics, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2022.100020
Diaz, B.A. & Hall, M.K. (2022). Taking a corpus-based approach to investigating Discourse and Ideology in the language sciences. In S.K. Määttä & M.K. Hall (Eds.), Ideology and discourse – Mapping ideology in discourse studies. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513602-013
Diaz, B.A. (2021). Corpus linguistic methodology as an advanced conversion design for social science research. International Journal of Multiple Research Methods, 13(3), 254-266. https://doi.org/10.29034/ijmra.v13n3a2
Lopez Frias, F. J., Diaz, B. A., & Park, T. R. (2021). A framework to evaluate justice claims in the Russian state-led doping case. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2021.1979636
Diaz, B.A. & Hall, M.K. (2020). A corpus-driven exploration of U.S. language planning and language ideology from 2013 to 2018. Journal of Language and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.19108.dia
Diaz, B.A. & Shahri, N.N. (2020). Evaluative affect in the social practice of institutional identity: Making a case for connotative inversion. Language & Communication, 74, 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.05.004
Schrauf, R., Lopez, P., & Diaz, B.A. (2020). Linguistic stance: An integrative paradigm for small sample mixed methods social science. Language in Society, 49(2), 257-281. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404519000757
Academic Awards and Grants
2021-2023 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, The Wilson Centre, Toronto, ON, CA
2019-2020 Center for Language Acquisition (CLA) Outstanding Graduate Student Award. CLA, Penn State.
2020 Drug Abuse Dissertation Grant (R36). Role: Principle Investigator. National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C, USA (Not Funded)
2019 Research and Graduate Studies Office Dissertation Support Release. College of Liberal Arts, Penn State.
2019 Humanities Initiative Dissertation Release. College of Liberal Arts, Penn State.
2019 External Funding Incentive Award. College of Liberal Arts, Penn State, PA.
2016-2021 Fully-funded five year Ph.D. studentship, The Graduate School, Penn State.
2014-2015 Graduate Teaching Assistantship. Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino.
2013-2014 Graduate equity fellowship. Graduate Studies, California State University, San Bernardino.
Invited Talks & Lectures
Diaz, B.A. (18 January, 2023). “Teaching critical reflection in health professions education with Transformative-Vygotskyian Praxis” [Invited Talk]. Department Research Rounds, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
Diaz, B.A. (10 January, 2023). “Teaching for critical reflection, results from an experimental online workshop design” [Invited Talk]. Best Practices in Education Research, Centre for Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Ng, S.L., Diaz, B.A., Boyd, V., & Forsey, J. (November 17, 2022). “Teaching for Critical Reflection” [Invited Panel Talk]. Given at North York General Hospital, Family Medicine Residency Program & Teaching Unit, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Diaz, B.A. (2020, September). Invited Talk: “Methods and methodology for applied linguistics in policy analysis”. Department of Languages, Culture and Education, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil.
Courses & Workshops Taught
2021 Facilitator, Qualitative Methods in Education Research, Education Scholars Program, Centre for Faculty Development, University of Toronto at Unity Health.
2021 Facilitator, Qualitative Data Analysis, Education Scholars Program, Centre for Faculty Development, University of Toronto at Unity Health.
2020 Co-Instructor, Cross-cultural Mixed Methods Research, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State, PA, USA
2018 – 2020 Instructor, ESL for Academic Writing, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State, PA, USA
2018 Co-Instructor, Language Policy and Planning, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State, PA, USA
2018 Co-Instructor, Comparative International Research Methods, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State, PA, USA
2017 Instructor, ESL for Academic Writing, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State, PA, USA
2016 – 2017 Facilitator, Academic & Professional Writing Across Disciplines, the English for Professional Purposes Intercultural Center (EPPIC), Penn State, PA, USA
2016 – 2017 Instructor, Intercultural Communication for Professionals, the English for Professional Purposes Intercultural Center (EPPIC), Penn State, PA, USA
2014 – 2015 Instructor, First Year Composition, Department of English, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, USA