Rural Reimagined Faculty Grant Program Recognizes Dr. Hermann-Turner’s Team

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Rural Reimagined would like to recognize Dr. Katherine Hermann-Turner (Counseling and Psychology) and Dr. Jonathan Wiley (Counseling and Psychology) for receiving Level 2 funding ($2,500-$10,000) from our Faculty Grant Program. Dr. Hermann-Turner’s team proposed their project titled “Rural Mothers Birth Experiences,” which uses a qualitative phenomenological mythology study to explore how support systems for “postpartum women in rural communities could affect mothers’ perceptions of birthing experiences, with special attention to birth trauma,” by studying participant’s unique experiences. Their project could help local counselors better advocate and support women’s needs as well as potentially make changes to therapeutic services in rural Tennessee communities “and subsequently to women in rural communities across the country and the world.” We congratulate Drs. Hermann-Turner and Wiley and encourage other faculty members to submit their ideas in the future!