My work engages across three themes: youth sense of place and human relationships with place, place-based methods, and youth power in urban planning.
My work engages across three themes: youth sense of place and human relationships with place, place-based methods, and youth power in urban planning.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
[*denotes youth research collaborator | + denotes community partner collaborator]
🟢 Christens, B. D., McCormick, M. L., & Wolf, J. (2025). Understanding and promoting nature connectedness: A human ecological perspective. Current opinion in psychology, 65, 102046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102046
🟢🟣🔵 Anderson, K. M., Morgan, K. Y., McCormick, M. L., Fike, K. J., & Christens, B. D. (2025). Youth and their ideal neighborhoods: How do ideals compare to lived realities across different neighborhoods in Nashville, Tennessee? Youth, 5(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth5010020
🔵 Anderson, K. M., McCormick, M. L., Morgan, K. Y., Gibson, M.+, Harper, A.*, Clark, M.*, & Christens, B. D. (2024). Youth participatory action research for equitable urban design. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 5(2), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.120406
🟢🟣 Anderson, K. M., Morgan, K. Y., McCormick, M. L., Robbins, N. N., Curry-Johnson, S., & Christens, B. D. (2024). Participatory mapping of holistic youth well-being: A mixed methods study. Sustainability, 16, 1559. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16041559
🟢🟣 McCormick, M. L., Morgan, K. Y., Anderson, K. M., Gibson, M.+, Fike, K. J., & Christens, B. D. Participatory drawing as a method to explore youth sense of place. Manuscript under review.
🟢 McCormick, M.L. & Alicea, J.A. (2025). Place fracture: How people experience, understand, and respond to place-based loss. Manuscript in preparation.
BOOK CHAPTERS
🟢 McCormick, M. L., Azamian, S., Morgan, K. Y., Gibson, M.+, Anderson, K. M., & Christens, B. D. (in press). Sense of place among young people involved in place-based action civics in Nashville, TN. In I. Butterworth (Ed.), The psychology of place: Rebuilding sense of place in a post-colonial world. Cambridge University Press.
🔵 Morgan, K. Y., Christens, B. D., & McCormick, M. L. (2024). Community empowerment. In W. Troop-Gordon & E. Neblett (Eds.), Encyclopedia of adolescence (2nd Ed.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96023-6.00100-7