A connected program of inquiry
How can institutions make their claims, decisions, and learning processes traceable, accountable, and open to verification?
My research brings governance, faith, technology, and education into conversation with practical institutional problems. This map shows how those interests connect—and the questions I intend to develop through applied inquiry and peer review.
Reading this map: research directions and journal routes are prospective. Existing publications and evidence remain in their linked records. Inclusion here does not establish a completed study, validated instrument, research approval, journal endorsement, submission, or acceptance.
Explore the connections
One agenda. Five connected strands.
Frame the question
Authority, accountability, and institutional capacity
Explore this strand ↓02Develop the method
Human agency and responsible AI collaboration
Explore this strand ↓03Evaluate in context
Traceable records and reliable scholarly information
Explore this strand ↓04Submit for peer review
Instructional access, understanding, and leadership
Explore this strand ↓05Share and extend
Field settings for testing and refining ideas
Explore this strand ↓Each strand opens the applied settings and proposed studies that connect to it. Several labs contribute to more than one strand; placement shows the principal connection.
From questions to inquiry
Labs & potential research directions
Open a lab to explore its research question, foundation, evidence needs, and possible publication direction. This is a curated starting map; it will evolve as projects and manuscripts develop.
Research strand
Governance & trust
Authority, accountability, and institutional capacity.
Praxis Lab & ministry governanceProposed research direction
- Research question
- How do documented authority and review processes support accountable leadership?
- Foundation
- Dissertation-in-Praxis; constitutional fidelity; distributed accountability
- Possible article
- Longitudinal case study
- Evidence to develop
- Implementation records, decision timelines, policy-to-practice comparisons, and independently coded evidence.
- Potential publication direction
- Quality Assurance in Education, where educational quality is central; specialist governance venue to be screened.
- Next research step
- Define the implementation question and confirm the scope of the institutional determination.
Institutional Trust Index & land-grant researchProposed research direction
- Research question
- How can institutional trust be measured and related to strategic capacity?
- Foundation
- Institutional Trust Index; Beyond Funding Formulas
- Possible article
- Instrument development and comparative institutional research
- Evidence to develop
- Construct definitions, expert review, reliable measures, and suitable institutional samples.
- Potential publication direction
- Quality Assurance in Education; specialist higher-education venue to be screened.
- Next research step
- Separate index development from later tests of institutional outcomes.
Research strand
Faithful Intelligence
Human agency and responsible AI collaboration.
Faithful Intelligence theoryProposed research direction
- Research question
- How should human responsibility operate in AI-supported learning and leadership?
- Foundation
- Faithful Intelligence Theory; theological AI governance; Beyond QuantCrit
- Possible article
- Conceptual theory development
- Evidence to develop
- Clear constructs, engagement with established scholarship, boundary conditions, and testable propositions.
- Potential publication direction
- AI & Society.
- Next research step
- Identify the framework’s explanatory contribution and competing explanations.
AI Failure Register & human reviewProposed research direction
- Research question
- When does structured human review reduce unsupported AI claims?
- Foundation
- Verification Architecture; AI Failure Register
- Possible article
- Comparative evaluation
- Evidence to develop
- A complete task denominator, independently rated outputs, model/version records, residual errors, and review time.
- Potential publication direction
- AI & Society; Journal of Systems and Software for a software engineering contribution.
- Next research step
- Build a prospective benchmark; an incident register alone cannot estimate an overall failure rate.
AI continuity & cross-model handoffProposed research direction
- Research question
- Can governed external context improve reconstruction of tasks and constraints?
- Foundation
- AI deployment context and planned cold-start tests
- Possible article
- Controlled cross-model experiment
- Evidence to develop
- Frozen control packages, equivalent tasks, independent scoring, constraint retention, and intervention burden.
- Potential publication direction
- Journal of Systems and Software, subject to software engineering contribution.
- Next research step
- Specify comparison conditions and a reproducible acceptance rubric.
Research strand
Evidence & verification
Traceable records and reliable scholarly information.
Accounting Lab & evidence ingestionProposed research direction
- Research question
- Does separating records, machine derivatives, and reviewer claims improve reconstruction?
- Foundation
- Questions, Not Accusations; provenance-preserving workflows
- Possible article
- System design and empirical evaluation
- Evidence to develop
- Authorized or synthetic records, a baseline workflow, provenance completeness, extraction errors, and reconstruction time.
- Potential publication direction
- Journal of Systems and Software; Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change for accounting practice.
- Next research step
- Evaluate the architecture; established hashing techniques alone do not establish novelty or authenticity.
Five-tier claim boundariesProposed research direction
- Research question
- Can independent reviewers consistently distinguish activity, evidence, and outcome claims?
- Foundation
- Proposed C0–C4 claim-boundary system
- Possible article
- Measurement development and reliability study
- Evidence to develop
- Operational definitions, independently coded cases, agreement estimates, and disagreement analysis.
- Potential publication direction
- Quality Assurance in Education for an educational application.
- Next research step
- Establish classification reliability before testing organizational effects.
Evidence CV, AI-readable scholarship & AI Data CenterProposed research direction
- Research question
- Do structured evidence links improve verification and scholarly retrieval?
- Foundation
- AI-readable editions; Evidence CV; repository and machine manifests
- Possible article
- Information-system evaluation
- Evidence to develop
- Fixed retrieval tasks, comparison versions, citation accuracy, verification time, and public reproducibility materials.
- Potential publication direction
- Information and Learning Sciences where information use and learning are central.
- Next research step
- Distinguish discoverability, factual accuracy, and actual scholarly reuse.
Whiteside Literature Review StandardProposed research direction
- Research question
- Does a structured review standard improve transparency and reproducibility?
- Foundation
- WLRS v2.0
- Possible article
- Methods evaluation
- Evidence to develop
- Independent reviews, an established comparator, predefined quality criteria, and an auditable search record.
- Potential publication direction
- Methods or information-science venue to be screened.
- Next research step
- Position the standard against established review methods.
Research strand
Learning & formation
Instructional access, understanding, and leadership.
ATS & Faithful Church LeadershipProposed research direction
- Research question
- What do learners understand, retain, and apply through short leadership courses?
- Foundation
- Christian leadership formation and course development
- Possible article
- Educational design and evaluation
- Evidence to develop
- Aligned assessments, delayed follow-up, application evidence, and documented instructional design.
- Potential publication direction
- Journal of Research on Christian Education; Educational Technology Research and Development where technology/design is central.
- Next research step
- Choose a bounded learning outcome and confirm suitable research permissions.
Instructional access & faculty perspectivesProposed research direction
- Research question
- Which supports turn online access into meaningful participation?
- Foundation
- Instructional Access at the Point of Need; Beyond Online Access
- Possible article
- Conceptual synthesis or educational inquiry
- Evidence to develop
- Clearly bounded faculty perspectives, instructional artifacts, and an appropriate analysis of access and participation.
- Potential publication direction
- Information and Learning Sciences; Educational Technology Research and Development.
- Next research step
- Protect identities and distinguish author reflection from participant research.
Y learning initiatives & mathematicsProposed research direction
- Research question
- How do guided practice and feedback support transfer beyond rehearsed tasks?
- Foundation
- Finance, accounting, driving education, and From Procedure to Understanding
- Possible article
- Subject-specific educational design research
- Evidence to develop
- Authentic transfer tasks, baseline understanding, follow-up, and research permissions appropriate to learners.
- Potential publication direction
- Educational Technology Research and Development when instructional technology is central; subject venues to be screened.
- Next research step
- Keep developmental learning records separate from a formally designed research dataset.
Research strand
Applied organizational research
Field settings for testing and refining ideas.
Applewood operational researchProposed research direction
- Research question
- Which workflow changes improve service reliability and organizational accountability?
- Foundation
- Applewood research constitution; audit-safe governance and exit pathways
- Possible article
- Longitudinal organizational case study
- Evidence to develop
- Stable operational measures, intervention dates, reconciliation evidence, missingness records, and competing explanations.
- Potential publication direction
- Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change when accounting/control practices are central.
- Next research step
- Define denominators and an authorized, de-identified analysis dataset.
SGHG, IAM & readiness improvementProposed research direction
- Research question
- What does a proposed readiness framework add to established improvement methods?
- Foundation
- SGHG Six Sigma; IAM Six Sigma; Readiness Audit-Control Ecosystem / DMAIC-R
- Possible article
- Comparative process-improvement study
- Evidence to develop
- Baseline performance, intervention fidelity, sustained outcomes, and a clearly described comparator.
- Potential publication direction
- Organizational-change or specialist quality venue to be screened.
- Next research step
- Demonstrate added value beyond relabeling established improvement steps.
Community partnerships & applied policyProposed research direction
- Research question
- How do institutional arrangements shape access, authority, and community outcomes?
- Foundation
- Estate planning; community and senior housing; judicial governance; chaplain authority; emergency powers; healthcare competition
- Possible article
- Separate policy, doctrinal, or empirical studies
- Evidence to develop
- Question-specific public records, a defensible analytical method, and clear limits on causal or legal claims.
- Potential publication direction
- Specialist policy, governance, religion, or health-policy venue to be screened for each manuscript.
- Next research step
- Treat each policy topic as a distinct disciplinary submission; partnership outreach is not outcome evidence.
The potential journey
From applied experience to scholarly contribution
These are development stages, not promised dates or a claim that every project has reached the same stage.
- 01
Frame the question
Connect a practical problem to a clearly bounded scholarly question.
- 02
Develop the method
Define constructs, permissions, measures, comparisons, and analysis.
- 03
Evaluate in context
Collect suitable evidence; examine errors, uncertainty, and alternative explanations.
- 04
Submit for peer review
Match the manuscript to journal scope and revise through external review.
- 05
Share and extend
Link permitted manuscripts, data, and methods; invite independent testing.
A study advances when evidence supports the next step. Conceptual papers can progress alongside empirical work. Publication, citations, and independent reuse remain outcomes to earn and document.
From practice to testable research
Research methodology
Translate applied experience into bounded research questions, explicit methods, and evidence that others can inspect and test.
Proposed methodological approach. Plans become findings only when a dated study record supports the change. A methodology section does not confer research approval or peer-review status.
Define the question and contribution
State what the study seeks to explain or evaluate, engage with established scholarship, and identify the limits of the intended contribution.
Document implementation and readiness
Distinguish inspected code, planned features, executed tests, and observed field behavior. Preserve the source revision and environment used for each evaluation.
Specify the design before evaluation
Define units of analysis, comparison conditions, sampling, reference answers, outcomes, and analysis before the main study. Separate development observations from confirmatory data.
Preserve evidence and scoped interpretation
Keep source records, machine-derived representations, reviewer statements, and final findings distinguishable. Record source version, location, attribution, scope, and limitations.
Evaluate independently and report uncertainty
Use independent scoring where appropriate. Report denominators, failures, missingness, effect sizes, uncertainty, and plausible alternative explanations.
Protect participants and support reproduction
Resolve study-specific institutional requirements and permissions. Share permitted methods, synthetic materials, analysis procedures, and documented limitations.
Accounting evidence workflow studyProtocol v0.1
Prospective protocol v0.1 — evaluation not yet completed
- Research question
- Does separating source records, machine derivatives, and reviewer claims improve correct evidence reconstruction compared with an indexed document workflow?
- Proposed design
- A staged implementation audit, synthetic technical benchmark, and subsequent comparative reviewer study. Reviewer tasks would use counterbalanced conditions and different matched evidence bundles.
- Primary measure
- Reconstruction accuracy: correct source, version, page, representation type, and appropriately bounded conclusion, judged against an independently prepared reference.
- Analysis
- Account for observations clustered within reviewers and evidence bundles. Report effect sizes and uncertainty, retain failed tasks, and distinguish exploratory analyses from prespecified comparisons.
- Study readiness
- Final software build, feature verification, frozen corpus, scoring rubric, justified sample size, reviewer eligibility, applicable institutional determination and permissions, and a dated analysis plan remain to be established before confirmatory execution.
- Digest verification boundary
- SHA-256 checks support detection of changed bytes relative to a trusted reference. A matching digest does not by itself establish authenticity, source truth, immutable storage, fraud prevention, or professional approval.
- Interpretation boundary
- The protocol evaluates traceability and review behavior. It does not establish accounting correctness, audit assurance, or proven organizational outcomes.
Secondary measures
- Unsupported conclusion rate
- Task duration and completion rate
- Provenance completeness
- Alteration detection and false alerts
- Unknown-value fidelity
- Authorization challenge outcomes
- Review scope fidelity
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The documented foundation
Related papers & frameworks
This list is drawn from the CV publication records. Follow each record for its publication type and status; appearance here does not confer peer-review status.
Explore related publication records
- From Procedure to Understanding: Predicate Knowledge, Apparent Procedural Competence, and the Robustness of Mathematical Performance in Algebra I
- Faithful Intelligence Theory: Explaining Human–AI Pedagogical Collaboration for Leadership Formation and Learning
- Judicial Governance Capacity: A Diagnostic Application of the Governance Accountability Architecture Framework to Federal Professional Accountability
- Distributed Accountability and the Production of Institutional Trust: A General Theory of Governance Architecture
- The Applewood Estates Evidence-Generating Operational Research Constitution
- Constitutional Fidelity as Epistemic Governance
- Beyond Funding Formulas: Institutional Trust as Strategic Capacity in Public Land-Grant HBCUs
- Institutional Trust as a Strategic Asset: Developing the Institutional Trust Index (ITI) for Public and Land-Grant Universities
- Faithful Intelligence: A Theological Governance Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Interreligious Religious Education
- Beyond QuantCrit: A Faith-Based Ethical Governance Framework for Algorithmic Decision-Making in Educational Systems
- Instructional Access at the Point of Need
- Insignia Without Command: Law, Ethics, and Institutional Authority in the U.S. Military Chaplain Corps Reform
- Verification Architecture: Faithful Intelligence as an Epistemic Governance System
- Breaking the Chains: Economic and Legal Analysis of Mandatory Divestiture for Vertically Integrated Healthcare Conglomerates
- The Readiness Audit-Control Ecosystem: Operationalizing Audibility, Ethical Governance, and Accountability Within DMAIC-R
- The IAM Six Sigma for Readiness Framework
- Designing Audit-Safe LLC Governance
- Designing Audit-Safe Exit Pathways
- Constitutional Emergency Powers and Strategic Industrial Protection
- Emergency Powers at the Crossroads
- The SGHG Six Sigma Method
- Research Brief: Influence of Christian Beliefs on Estate Planning
- The Whiteside Literature Review Standard (WLRS) v2.0
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Publication pathway sources
Candidate routes reflect editorial scope, not acceptance likelihood or journal rankings. Recheck each journal’s current author guidance before preparing a submission.
- Elsevier. (n.d.). Journal of Systems and Software.
- Emerald Publishing. (n.d.). Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change; Quality Assurance in Education; Information and Learning Sciences.
- Springer Nature. (n.d.). AI & Society; Educational Technology Research and Development.
- Taylor & Francis. (n.d.). Journal of Research on Christian Education.
Map prepared 2026-10-19 · Version 1.0 · Machine-readable research map