Cheryl Poth

Cheryl Poth is a Professor in the Centre for Research and Applied Measurement and Evaluation at the Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. Her work focuses on interdisciplinary research methodology, particularly mixed methods and complexity-informed approaches, applied to education and health sciences.

Research Interests include enhancing research quality, methodological training, and collaborative research teams. She emphasizes complexity theory to address dynamic phenomena in education and health, such as pandemic response, classroom dynamics, and clinical settings. Her research advocates for integrating qualitative and quantitative methods to tackle rapidly evolving challenges.

Article Trends reveal a strong focus on complexity-informed mixed methods design, collaborative research practices, and inclusive methodologies. Her work spans educational evaluation, ethical research, and adaptive strategies for wicked problems, with recent contributions to visualizing data collection and fostering equity in research.

Leadership includes co-founding the interdisciplinary Alberta Clinical and Community-based Evaluation Research Team (ACCERT) in 2009 and serving as President of the Mixed Methods International Research Association. She is an award-winning author of four textbooks and editor of the SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods Research Design (2023).

Community Engagement is central to her practice, with community-university partnerships driving program evaluations that blend teaching and research. She is currently writing a textbook prioritizing integration in mixed methods research design.