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"Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women is the first contribution to literary food study to examine Middle Eastern women's writing. Using twenty-first century transnational theory, the volume establishes books with recipes as tools of culinary diplomacy"--

University faculty are challenged to engage students in the classroom as well as to engage in scholarship and service. In the following case, I explore my experience of combining research, teaching, and service in a community-based research and service-learning venture within undergraduate communication research methods courses, including lessons learned. I consider ways in which the case could have avoided some of the challenges and issues that occurred and how students may better engage with such work in their research experiences.

BackgroundA paucity of information is available on direct care workers' (DCWs') experiences with loss when their clients (people with intellectual and developmental disabilities [I/DD]) die. This study explored DCWs' grief experiences, their coping methods and their needs for support.MethodsA thematic analysis approach was used to examine data from nine focus groups with 60 DCWs from five community‐based organizations that provide services to people with I/DD.ResultsThree themes (factors affecting DCW loss, ways that DCWs cope with loss and organizational issues affecting the bereavement experience) and associated subthemes emerged from the data. This highlighted not only DCW professional grief experiences but how organizational communication and policy affected their grief experience.ConclusionsDCWs experience grief in the workplace but may receive insufficient organizational bereavement supports. Recommendations are made for organizational policies and resources to improve organizational communication and assist DCWs in coping with their grief.

BackgroundThe study explored the grief process of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (PWIDDs) as perceived by direct care workers (DCWs) and how such workers can guide and support PWIDDs experiencing grief.Materials and MethodsA thematic analysis approach was used to examine data from nine focus groups with 60 DCWs from five community‐based organizations.ResultsFindings were supported in the context of seminal grief and bereavement theories. Three themes (i.e. reactions to loss, processing the loss and incorporating the loss) and related subthemes emerged from the data.ConclusionsPWIDDs are susceptible to traumatic grief, and DCWs are often key witnesses to such experiences. DCWs' perspectives can guide the development of grief and bereavement training which can lead to more tailored support systems.