Elizabeth Bogumil
Adventurer exploring cities & nature. Mindfulness fan. Sociologist researching the urban environment, health and well-being, community, culture, and policy.
Elizabeth Bogumil is a PhD candidate at UC Riverside and a CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program scholar specializing in medical sociology and political economy and global social change.
Her research explores health, well-being, and access to resources as they are shaped by social, built, and natural environments. Currently her dissertation, Mutual aid & Social Support in the Time of COVID-19: An (Anti) Organizational Ethnography, weaves together discussions about neighborhood-based resource networks, organizational resource networks/ecologies, and organizational change by exploring how informal organizations serve as social support networks in times of crisis and disaster.
Professional Biography: Elizabeth has consulted on projects ranging from:
Qualitative evaluation plan and NIH SBIR for community building tech company
Project evaluation of the California Department of Aging’s LADAP (Local Area and Disability Action Planing) Grant (in conjunction with UC Davis’ Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing’s Family Caregiver Institute)
A needs assessment and sociology consultant for the Inland Coalition on Aging’s Master Plan for Aging (funded by The SCAN Foundation and CDA’s LADAP Grant)
Student equity plan research and reporting and IRB coordination for Mt. San Antonio Community College
Program evaluation of CSUN’s community supported agriculture program
Research support for CSUN’s B.U.I.L.D. Poder
Pre/post assessment revisions for participants through CSUN’s Center for Innovative and Engaged Learning Office
Academic Biography: Elizabeth has conducted research on the effects of community walkability on topophilia (attachment to place), sense of community and quality of life in Los Angeles; barriers and access to service at non-profit organizations in Los Angeles; the role of race and gender on reputation in Subic Bay, Philippines; the impact of county level health spending and health outcomes in California; and the role of restorative environments on health in marginalized communities. She has published on topics including cities and the urban environment, non-profits, arts-based research methods, pedagogy, reflexivity, and qualitative research methods.
Education:
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at University of California, Riverside
B.A. Cinema Television Arts - Media Management at California State University, Northridge
M.A. Sociology California State University, Northridge