Faculty Profile for Dr. Aimee Kendall Roundtree

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Dr. Aimee Kendall Roundtree is an Assistant Vice President for Research in the Division of Research and a full professor in the technical communication program. She has also served as a Faculty Fellow for the Division of Research and an Associate Dean of Research in the College of Liberal Arts, as well as a director of the master's degree programs in technical communication at Texas State University and the University of Houston-Downtown. She has experience as a coordinator, medical writer, researcher, communication specialist, and public affairs specialist for organizations such as the Texas Medical Foundation, the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, and Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base. She investigates research and STEM communication, rhetoric, and ethics, including science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. In particular, her work interrogates points of translation and transaction between experts, policymakers, organizations, and the public, as well as human and non-human agents. She has expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research, including usability and user experience research, heuristic evaluation, text mining, systematic and integrative reviews, meta-analyses, survey studies, focus groups, and interviews. She is the editor of the Research Management Review and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. She is also an editorial and review board member of the Journal of Research Administration, Technical Communication Quarterly, Programmatic Perspectives, and Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse. She serves on the board of the Association of the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Knowbility, and ACCEYSS. She serves on review panels evaluating grants for NSF, NIH, NEH, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, among others.

Teaching Interests

Dr. Roundtree teaches communication in STEM, medicine, and research; social and digital media; web publishing and accessibility; visual design; professional and technical communication; and research methods, including qualitative, user experience, and mixed methods research.

Research Interests

Dr. Aimee Kendall Roundtree investigates research and STEM communication, rhetoric, and ethics, including science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. In particular, her work interrogates points of translation and transaction between experts, policymakers, organizations, and the public, as well as human and non-human agents. She has expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research, including usability and user experience research, heuristic evaluation, text mining, systematic and integrative reviews and metanalyses, survey studies, focus groups, and interviews. She is the editor of the Research Management Review and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. She is also an editorial and review board member of the Journal of Research Administration, Technical Communication Quarterly, Programmatic Perspectives, and Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse. She is a vice president of the Association of the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine. She has served as president of the American Communication Association. She has published in the Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Journal of Technical and Business Communication, and the Journal of Texas Medicine, among others. She reviews publications and grants for JMIR, Science Communication, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, to name a few.