Kelly A. Way

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University of Arkansas

Faculty Researcher

7 h-index 25 pubs 362 cited

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Kelly A. Way's research investigates social and behavioral factors influencing health, nutrition, and industry practices. Her work includes qualitative studies on food waste in restaurant settings, exploring chefs' practices and challenges in training. Way also examines family resilience, considering individual resources, social capital, and sociodemographic characteristics. Additionally, her research explores the impact of social media on young adult women's nutritional understanding and behavior, as well as depressive symptoms in a community sample, contextualizing them with psychological and social factors like optimism and social trust. She has also explored diversification options for Native American tribal enterprises and hospitality operators' perspectives on cannabis tourism policy and regulations. Way's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 7, with 25 total publications and 359 citations. She frequently collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including M. E. Betsy Garrison, Nicholas E. Johnston, Timothy S. Killian, and Zola K. Moon.

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h-index: 7
Publications: 25
Citations: 362

Selected Publications

Addressing Food Waste in Restaurant Training: Practices and Challenges (2025)

Tourism and Hospitality 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
Using the Web-first Tailored Design Method in a Rural Population: A Follow-Up Investigation (2024)

Advances in Social Science and Culture DOI OpenAlex
Food waste in restaurants: A qualitative investigation of chefs’ practices (2024)

Food and Humanity 13 citations DOI OpenAlex
Navigating the academic Labyrinth: describing the landscape of women faculty in hospitality higher education (2024)

International Hospitality Review 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Depressive Symptoms in Context: Variations in a Community Sample Based on Dispositional Optimism, Self-Rated Health, Place Attachment, and Social Trust (2022)

The Family Journal 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Winery diversification options for Native American tribal enterprises (2022)

International Hospitality Review 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
Family Resilience: Variations by Individual Psychological and Health Resources, Social Capital and Sociodemographic Characteristics (2021)

The Family Journal 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
The Relationship Between Perceptions of Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Experience, Health-Care Provider Education, and Emergency Preparedness Levels (2018)

International Quarterly of Community Health Education 32 citations DOI OpenAlex
Limiting Food Waste in Child Care Facilities through Implementation of Portion Sizes (2017)

Discovery The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural Food and Life Sciences DOI OpenAlex
Leadership in food policy: raising a foodie part II (2015)

Discovery The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural Food and Life Sciences DOI OpenAlex
QSR Choice: Key Restaurant Attributes and the Roles of Gender, Age and Dining Frequency (2013)

Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism 66 citations DOI OpenAlex
Hospitality Author and University Productivity in the 21st Century (2012)

Journal of Culinary Science & Technology 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
Shopping and Tourism Patterns of Attendees of the Bikes, Blues & BBQ Festival (2012)

Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management 25 citations DOI OpenAlex
Is Crowdsourcing Useful for Enhancing Innovation and Learning Outcomes in Culinary and Hospitality Education? (2011)

Journal of Culinary Science & Technology 18 citations DOI OpenAlex