Pamela Hardin, PhD, RN

Contact Information:

• Mailing Address:
• University of Utah
• College of Nursing
• 10 South 2000 East
• Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5880
• Phone: (801) 585-9632
• FAX: (801) 581-4642
• E-mail: pamela.hardin@nurs.utah.edu

Background:

Dr. Hardin is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing. In 2000, Dr. Hardin received her PhD from the University of Washington. She received her MN in Psychosocial Nursing from the University of Washington in 1995 and her BSN from the University of Northern Colorado in 1983. Dr. Hardin earned a graduate certificate in Women's Studies from the University of Washington in 1999. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship from 2000-2001 on the Women's Health Nursing Research Training Grant, University of Washington School of Nursing.

Research Program/ Scholarly Activity:

My research is organized around the interactions between women, bodies, culture, and media representations of eating disorders. My research focuses on the webs of systematic power and how those webs interface with 'self' constructions. My scholarship focuses on the application of post-structuralist, post-feminist, and post-colonial methodological perspectives. I am interested expanding the scope of methodologies used in nursing to include different levels of discourse analysis as a means to analyze text that moves beyond individual analysis.

Funded Research and Fellowships:

• 2004-06 From the Islands to the Desert: Tongan Youth Negotiating Differences-Culture, Health, and Bodies; University Research Committee, Faculty Research and Creative Grants
• 2003-04 Conversations with Tongan Women: Culture, History, and Health; University of Utah College of Nursing Research Committee
• 2000-01 Post-Doctorate Fellowship: Women’s Health Nursing Research Training Grant: Institutional National Research Service Award: NIH/NINR T32 NR07039
• 1999-00 PI: "Recovery in Anorexia Nervosa: Beyond Pathology," NIH funded NRSA (F31 NR07493)
• 1999-00 Hester McLaws Nursing Scholarship Award: Dissertation Support, University of Washington.
• 1995-96 Professional Nurse Traineeship – NINR funded A11 NU00218

Recent Publications:

• Hardin, P. K. (2003). Shape-Shifting Discourses of Anorexia Nervosa: Reconstituting Psychopathology. Nursing Inquiry. 10(4), 209-217.
• Hardin, P. K. (2003) Recovery from Anorexia Nervosa: Social and Cultural Considerations: A Critical Poststructuralist Approach. Advances in Nursing Science, 26(1).
• Hardin, P. K. (2003) Constructing Experience in Individual Interviews, Autobiographies, and On-line Accounts: A Poststructuralist Approach. Journal of Advanced Nursing.
• Hardin, P. K. (2001). Theory and language: Locating agency between free will and discursive marionettes. Nursing Inquiry, 8(1), 11-18.
• Allen, D., & Hardin, P. K. (2001). The epidemiology of meaning: Causation, indeterminancy, and discourse analysis. Nursing Philosophy, 2(1), 163-176.

Recent Presentations:

• 10/05 University of Utah Women's Resource Center: Presentation on Body Image in Pacific Islander Women
• 05/05 Discursive Instability when Cultures, Bodies, and Media Collide. Political Ramifications for Researchers. First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Urbana-Champaign, IL
• 04/05 Invited Podium Presentation: Session II: Research and Practice. Identifying Historical and Social Values. CAHDR (Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research) Spring Institute. University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA.
• 04/05 Invited Presenter: Establishing a Program of Research Addressing Health Disparities: Reflections and Lessons. Spring 2005 Teach-In, The Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research. University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle WA.
• 04/05 Bodies, Health, and Immigration: Tongan Women Negotiating Cultural Spaces. Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference, 38th Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference.
• 04/05 Invited Presenter: Establishing a Program of Research Addressing Health Disparities: Reflections and Lessons. spring 2005 Teach-In. the Center for the Advancement of Health Disparities Research. University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA
• 01/05 On and Beyond the Lecture: Visual and Mediated Pedagogical Lessons from the Margins of Educational Practice: Engaging Students at a Distance. Brown Bag Educational Seminar Series. University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT
• 2/03 Roundtable Discussion Leader: "The Post-Methodologies: Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonial Approaches," Issues in Nursing/Health Care Research 20th Anniversary Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
• 11/02 Caught in a Web: Negotiating Poststructuralist Theory, Internet Accounts, and the Ethics of Individualism," Twelfth Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference, Portland, Maine
• 11/01 "Beyond Individual Analysis in Research: Narratives of Recovery from Anorexia," Poster Presentation, Eating Disorders Research Society Conference, Albuquerque NM
• 4/01 "Web Enhanced Case Learning for Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners" (with M. Durand-Thomas), International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses Third Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ
• 4/01 "Beyond Individual Analysis in Research: Narratives of Recovery from Anorexia," Western Institute of Nursing 34^th Annual Communicating Nursing Research Conference, Seattle, WA
• 10/00 "Disobedient Discourses: Investigating Unpredictability When people and Categories Convene," Eleventh Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference, San Diego, CA
• 6/00 Invited Presentation: "Reflections on the Past? Directions for the Future," 21^st Elizabeth Sterling Soule Lecture (panelist respondent to Keynote Speaker Susan K. Donaldson’s lecture), Seattle, WA
• 6/00 Dissertation Presentation: "Women, Bodies, and Self-Surveillance: Recovery from Anorexia Nervosa: An Analysis of Social Discourse and a Discourse Regarding Analysis;" Annual Scholarship Day: A Celebration of Nursing Science; University of Washington School of Nursing; Seattle, WA
• 4/00 "Reconceptualizing the Environment as Language: Methodological Implications of a Post-Structuralist Approach to Language," Sixth Annual Qualitative Health Research Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada
• 10/99 "Autobiography, Theory, Subjectivity;" Tenth Annual International Critical Theory and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference; Williamsburg, VA
• 6/98 "The Epidemiology of Meaning: Causation, Indeterminancy and Discourse Analysis" (with D.G. Allen); Ninth Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference, Adelaide, South Australia
• 6/97 "Discourse and the Creation of Alternative Selves: The Role of Language in the Creation of the ‘Anorectic Experience,’" Eighth Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
• 11/02 Caught in a Web: Negotiating Poststructuralist Theory, Internet Accounts, and the Ethics of Individualism," Twelfth Annual International Critical and Feminist Perspectives in Nursing Conference, Portland, Maine

Professional Societies:

• 2003-present International Council on Women's Health Research
• 2003-present Academy of Eating Disorders
• 1981-83 Lambda Sigma Tau
• 1983-present Sigma Theta Tau International

Areas of Teaching Responsibilities:

• N7009: Descriptive Research Designs
• Honors 3215: Technologies of the Body
• N6000: Scholarly Inquiry: Graduate Research Course
• N7009: Ways of Knowing: Philosophy of Science PhD Course
• N3200: History and Traditions: Undergraduate Nursing Course

Recent Awards:

• 2004 -2006 National Institutes of Health: Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program Researcher
• 2004 -present National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) Scholar
• Mildred Disbrow Award (doctoral student award for contribution to theory development in nursing), University of Washington, 1999