Our Associates
Our associates have a wide range of experience in museums, schools, and other non-profit institutions.
Selinda Research Associates strives to maintain a healthy, supportive, and professionally stimulating work environment. To support this goal, we engage in collaborative projects, provide on-the-job training opportunities, and present at local, regional, and national meetings and conferences.
We maintain a core staff of individuals and bring on additional professionals with expertise in specific areas when needed. Each project is uniquely staffed to ensure the highest quality service.
Deborah L. Perry, Ph.D., has been Director of Selinda Research Associates since 1989. With a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University, she has conducted research on the role of intrinsic motivation in informal educational settings focusing on the question, "What makes learning fun?"
Deborah has extensive experience in museum exhibit and program evaluation and development and has consulted with museums and other organizations throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Her work includes evaluating museum exhibitions and programs, planning and presenting workshops and training seminars, consulting with museums on visitor-centered long-range planning, and incorporating instructional development principles into the design of museum spaces and visitor experiences.
She specializes in naturalistic inquiry and uses a variety of qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies including focus groups, interviews, observations, and written surveys.
Before founding Selinda Research Associates, Deborah served for seven years as an elementary school media specialist, integrating technology into previously print-based school libraries. In addition to her Ph.D., she holds a M.Ed. in Instructional Media and a B.S. in Elementary Education.
Deborah
is Past President of the Visitor Studies Association and also served for many years on the Visitor Studies
Association board. This link takes you to the Visitor Studies
Association Web site:
< http://www.visitorstudies.org/
>
Eric D. Gyllenhaal, Ph.D., conducts exhibit and program evaluations and meta-studies, and he contributes literature reviews to many Selinda Research Association projects. His research interests include computer applications in informal learning and public understandings about prehistoric life and behind-the-scenes science in museums.
Eric started his museum career as a volunteer and junior staff member at the Lake Erie Junior Nature and Science Center in Bay Village, Ohio. He has worked as a naturalist and curator-educator at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis and as an exhibit developer and evaluator at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Eric's educational background includes a B.Sc. in Interpretive Work in Natural Resources (Ohio State University), a B.Sc. in Geology (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis), and a Ph.D. in Paleontology and Stratigraphy (University of Chicago). Eric serves as developer and Web master for MuseumDeveloper.net, which includes topical bibliographies and other resources for museum professionals < http://MuseumDeveloper.net >. For a more general audience, Eric developed and maintains the Salt the Sandbox Web complex < http://SaltTheSandbox.org >, Eric has been with Selinda Research Associates since 1997.
Eric Gyllenhaal's bibliography
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