Asheley R. Landrum is an associate professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Senior Global Futures Scientist Arizona State University. Her research investigates how values and worldviews influence people's selection and processing of information and how these phenomena develop from childhood into adulthood.
Asheley is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and she is serving on the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's consensus panel "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science." Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust. Asheley is deeply committed to researcher-practitioner partnerships and has collaborated with journalistic outlets and content creators such as KQED public media, PBS Digital Studios, and Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN. These collaborations ensure that her research not only advances scholarly knowledge, but that it has practical applications in enhancing the practice of communication and builds bridges between the academy and professional practice. Asheley earned her PhD in Psychological Sciences (University of Texas -- Dallas) with a focus on children's social-cognitive development. Asheley then completed two postdoctoral fellowships, one at the University of Louisville in Psychology and one as a Howard Deshong Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. |
Areas of Expertise:
Audience Engagement; children & (Science) Media; Confirmation Bias; Conspiracy Theorizing; Identity; Media Literacy; Media Psychology; Misinformation; Open Science; Political Socialization; Public Understanding of Science; Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships; Science of Science Communication; Views and Values |