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Catherine Mobley

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1997

Publications

118

Citations

1,301

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

30

Publishing since 1997

Research summary
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Catherine Mobley conducts social science research spanning several applied topics, including food insecurity and health disparities in rural and low-income communities, higher education and engineering education (including student veterans and doctoral student motivation), and emerging uses of technology such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence in learning and healthcare contexts. Her work is largely community- and policy-oriented, often examining how social and environmental factors affect well-being, access, and educational or career outcomes.

Food insecurity and community healthHigher and engineering education researchStudent veterans and career/technical educationVirtual reality in educationPublic perceptions of AI and disability studies

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a notable spike in 2020 and 2024 but otherwise a moderate, uneven pace averaging about 6 papers per year in the last five years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.4/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 6 publications192020: 15 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 4 publications222023: 6 publications232024: 18 publications18242025: 3 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×4
  • International journal of engineering education×3
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×3
  • Nutrients×2
  • Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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