Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Wiley Lab
Led by Kimberly Wiley · Family, Youth and Community Sciences
What we study
The Wiley Lab studies nonprofits and public policy. Recent student projects use interviews and state policy tracking to see how nonprofits serving vulnerable groups respond to restrictive legislation; its papers also cover public health communication.
What working here is like
- Surveys & interviews
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Times of Uncertainty: Nonprofits' Response to Obstructive Policies
The project studies how nonprofits that help vulnerable people react to laws that threaten their programs. Interviews with nonprofit leaders and analysis of state policies show that nonprofits struggle to keep programs running and that some laws hurt unintended groups.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 298
Only Stressful for Those Who Are Truly Doing the Work: Nonprofit Responses to Polarizing Politics
Researchers interviewed nonprofit leaders and tracked state policies to see how organizations react to polarizing legislation, categorizing responses as fight, flight/freeze, or fawn, and found that fighting or fleeing worked better in the short term than trying to reason with the laws. The student helped conduct interviews and code the data.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 175
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Queering the Social Media Narrative: Influencers as Public Health Authorities
2026 · Social Policy and Administration
Finds that LGBTQIA+ social media messages often ignore queer communities.
- A Systematic Literature Review of Produce Safety Training Research: Do We Know What Works?
2025 · Journal of Food Protection
Reviews studies on produce safety training but finds no clear evidence of effectiveness.
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- Lost Prevention? Assessing Secondary and Tertiary Prevention Potential in Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events
2025 · Violence Against Women
Finds that sexual assault awareness events focus on survivors, not prevention.
- “There Wasn’t Enough Time In the Day”: Assessing Administrative Burdens Experienced by Parents in Florida’s Privatized Child Welfare System
2025 · Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership
Shows how privatized child welfare systems burden parents with extra work.
- Nonprofit Leadership: Translating Priorities into Mission Fulfillment
2025 · EDIS
Lists four key priorities nonprofit leaders must balance in decision-making.
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