Shalini Misra

• Ph.D., Planning, Policy & Design, University of California - Irvine, 2010
• M.S., Sustainable Resource Management, Technical University of Munich (Germany), 2004
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Gujarat University (India), 2001

• Environmental and social psychology
• Digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence
• Thinking, decision-making, interpersonal relationships
• Science of team science, inter- and trans-disciplinary research, convergence research

• SPIA 3554: Transdisciplinary Problem Solving for Social Issues
• UAP 5084: Collaborative Planning and Community Involvement 
• UAP 5174: Planning Theory and History
• UAP 5424: Environment & Behavior Studies
• UAP 5424: Urban Social Ecology
• UAP 5484: Advanced Urban Research Methodology

Books

• Communication in Transdisciplinary Teams, co-edited with G. Lotrecchiano (Santa Rosa, CA: Informing Science Institute, 2020).
• Special series on communication in transdisciplinary teams. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline 21: 41-253 (2018). Co-edited with G. Lotrecchiano.
• Across disciplinary boundaries towards a sustainable life: Psychodynamic reflection on human behavior, co-edited with E. A. Stuhler (Rainer Hampp Verlag, Muenchen, Mering, 2008).

Articles

• Misra, S., Roberts, P., & Rhodes, M.  (2020). Information overload, stress, and emergency managerial thinking and decision-making. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. Available online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212420920312644
• Misra, S., Roberts, P., & Rhodes, M. (2020). The ecology of emergency management work in the digital age. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance. Published online before print: doi:10.1093/ppmgov/gvaa007.
• Trivedi, C. & Misra, S. (2018). Dialogue and the creation of transformative social change: The case of social enterprises. Special series on communication in transdisciplinary teams. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 21, 107-132. http://www.inform.nu/Articles/Vol21/ISJv21p107-132Trivedi4103.pdf
  
• Lotrecchiano, G. & Misra, S. (2018). Transdisciplinary knowledge producing teams: Toward a complex systems perspective. Special series on communication in transdisciplinary teams. Informing Science: The International Journal of an Emerging Transdiscipline, 21, 51-74. https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/83856/ISJv21p051-074Lotrecchiano4844.pdf
• “The iPhone effect: The quality of in-person social interactions in the presence of mobile technologies,” with L. Cheng, J. Genevie, and M. Yuan, Environment & Behavior, 48(2): 275-298 (2016). (Published online before print July 1, 2014).
•  “The Transdisciplinary Orientation Scale: Factor Structure and Relation to the Integrative Quality and Scope of Scientific Publications,” with D. Stokols and L. Cheng, Journal of Translational Medicine and Epidemiology, 3(2): 1042 (2015).
• “Psychological and health outcomes of perceived information overload,” with D. Stokols, Environment & Behavior, 44(6): 737-759 (2011).
• “Evaluating an interdisciplinary undergraduate training program in health promotion research,” with R. Harvey, D. Stokols, K. Pine, J. Fuqua, S. Shokair and J. Whiteley, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 36(4): 358-365 (2009).
• “Psychology in an age of ecological crisis: From personal angst to collective action,” with D. Stokols, M. G. Runnerstrom, and J. A. Hipp, American Psychologist, 64(3): 181-193 (2009).

• 2021-23    Co-PI, EAGER: SAI: SmarTrail: An Infrastructure Services Framework for Sustainable Trail Management, National Science Foundation EAGER Strengthening American Infrastructure Grant 
• 2020-21    PI , Distancing and Digital Information in the Face of COVID-19, National Science Foundation RAPID Response Grant
• 2020-21    Co-I, Exploring Convergence Research: An Initial Examination of What It Means and What It Hopes to Accomplish, National Science Foundation EAGER Grant
  
• 2020-21    PI, Checking (It) Out from Georgia to Maine: Risk, Resource Management, and Social Informatics on the Appalachian Trail, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech
• 2017-18 Co-PI (with Wernstedt, PI) Caution: Heavy Load Ahead, Smart and Connected Communities- Planning Grant, National Science Foundation ($99,354)
• 2017-18 PI (with Roberts, Co-PI), Thinking and Decision Making in An Age of Divided Attention, Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment, Virginia Tech ($30,000)

• Social, psychological, and health implications of the Internet and digital communication technologies
• Environment and behavior studies, specially focusing on the psychological and health impacts of environmental stressors such as information overload and multitasking
• Science of team science or the study of the processes and outcomes of large scale transdisciplinary collaborative scientific, training, and action research initiatives