Open research questions in Education and Military Integration
148 gap statements mined from Education and Military Integration papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 1,072 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.
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Although our approach included collecting feedback directly from Veteran patients, additional work is needed to fully integrate patient voices. For the document review, the sources and structure of the documents varied widely, making it difficult to carry out a formal, systematic review.
Identifying Priorities for the Department of Veterans Affairs Strategic Plan: A Rapid Multi‐Method Evaluation · 2026 · DOIIt highlights the need for care models that can address the complexity and interconnectedness of these conditions. The editorial also emphasizes the challenge of considering the impact on families and caregivers.
Editorial: Neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders affecting military personnel and veterans, volume II · 2026 · DOIAlthough psychosocial factors are central to successful reintegration, little is known about distinct patterns of needs among ex-serving Australian Defence Force (ADF) members.
Understanding psychosocial adjustment in military-to-civilian transition: A latent profile analysis of ex-serving Australian Defence Force members · 2026 · DOIThe paper identifies challenges in accessing mental health services for veterans who do not present to VA. It also mentions the importance of addressing the underutilization of mental health services in this population. The study notes the difficulty in calculating reliability for the present data due to the lack of item-level data.
Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Military Service members, Veterans and their Families: Cohen Veterans Network Client Population · 2025 · DOIThere is a gap in accessible mental health services for veterans who do not present to VA. The literature highlights the importance of accessible mental health and substance use services to veterans who do not present to VA.
Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Military Service members, Veterans and their Families: Cohen Veterans Network Client Population · 2025 · DOIResearch shows that culturally competent care improves health outcomes, yet little is known about civilian sexual assault centers (SACs) supporting MV clients.
Military Cultural Competency in Canadian Sexual Assault Support Centers: “Not Here for Lessons” · 2025 · DOIBy design, this research focused on a limited number of female veterans' experiences as they left the RAF, allowing a hitherto underexplored veteran cohort to be better understood.
Female Veteran Transition: Exploring Gendered Power Relations, Discipline and Decision Making · 2025 · DOIA lot of the subjects mentioned therapy and counseling was and is needed for continued improvement in their recovery. However, Veterans often have to face multiple barriers to obtain mental healthcare services at the VA, so improvement is needed in order to make counseling and therapy more accessible. Subjects from both studies mentioned that military culture makes the reporting of MST difficult.
This dual perspective ensures that nontraditional students’ unique needs, challenges, and aspirations are addressed comprehensively, leading to better outcomes for both nontraditional students and institutions.
The role of counseling for non-traditional students in formal higher education: a scoping review · 2024 · DOILittle research has been conducted into the subtleties of comfort in the role and its importance in retaining positive veteran teachers. There is a need for further research on the characteristics that sustain positive veteran teachers. The current study aims to address this gap by examining the characteristics of positive veteran teachers and how comfort in the role sustains them.
The lack of understanding of the experiences of women veterans in a masculinized military culture. The lack of research on the transition experiences of women veterans. The dominant masculinized culture of the military can have long-term negative impacts on women veterans' mental and physical health.
No Women’s Land: Australian Women Veterans’ Experiences of the Culture of Military Service and Transition · 2024 · DOIWhile the explosion of videogames as a global entertainment medium has been explored in International Relations (IR) and associated fields in some detail in recent years, the proliferation of games in military settings remains under-researched.
“Videogames Saved My Life”: Everyday Resistance and Ludic Recovery among US Military Veterans · 2021 · DOIThis study is beneficial to scholars in as much as it will help to more clearly identify literature gaps, provide direction on emerging research concepts, add to the existing literature on the veteran to civilian transitions and connect research areas that have not yet been adequately studied.
An Aide to Custer will help those [End Page 320] interested in Great Plains history understand Custer’s Civil War backstory from the perspective of one of his previously understudied (heretofore unknown) subordinates, Edward Granger.
Further study on the motivation, retention, and the reintegration needs of women postmilitary is necessary, particularly with military recruitment targets of 20 percent women by the year 2020 and the increased awareness of the military as a potentially hostile work environment for women.
Why Women Join the Military: Enlistment Decisions and Postdeployment Experiences of Service Members and Veterans · 2015 · DOIResearch on degree persistence and completion among student Veterans is sparse, although some data suggest that compared to their non-Veteran peers, Veterans enroll at higher rates but have lower degree completion rates (Perskey & Oliver, 2011; Whikehart, 2010).
High-Risk Drinking and Academic Performance among College Student Veterans. · 2014This is an important project, therefore, one that inspires further research on disability both during and after [End Page 593] war, and no less on the objects and images that inform experiences of disability regardless of time and place.
Lack of effective recruitment procedures for Black veterans. Limited access to federal jobs for Black veterans.
The decline in student performance and morale is noted as an area for further study.
There is a lack of cooperative planning between the military and civilian sectors. Military families face unique problems that are not being fully addressed by current services.
A Proposal for Interagency Planning: Military Family Service Centers and the Civilian Sector · 1986 · DOIThe Panel recommends that the Air Force conduct the same review of Non-Commissioned Officer assignment policies and tour lengths at the Academy as it is conducting for officer assignments policies. (Page 56) 8. The Panel recommends that the Academy draw upon climate survey resources at the Air Force Personnel Center Survey Branch for assistance in creating and administering the social climate surveys.
Longitudinal studies, - Rigorous clinical trials, - Biomarker-informed and patient-centered phenotyping, - Implementation strategies that meet military-connected individuals and families where they are.
Editorial: Neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders affecting military personnel and veterans, volume II · 2026 · DOIFew studies have sought to explore the subjective experience of reintegration for veterans of the current Operations Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn military campaigns, and even less attention has been given to discover strategies used by veterans to overcome difficulties with transitioning from life in a combat zone to life at home.
The Panel recommends that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations Academy detachment participate fully in the recently established Academy Response Team and use it for informing and educating Academy leadership, victim advocates and CASIE representatives of their responsibilities and limitations.
Longitudinal studies to ascertain the impact of the VRP program over several years. Studies to design effective recruitment and employment procedures for groups traditionally underrepresented in the work force.
Most-cited papers in Education and Military Integration
- Military Service in the Life Course · Annual Review of Sociology · 2007 · 205 citations
- Military Families Under Stress: Implications for Family Life Education* · Family Relations · 2003 · 203 citations
- The Importance of Understanding Military Culture · Social Work in Health Care · 2011 · 165 citations
- From Combat to Campus: Voices of Student-Veterans · NASPA Journal · 2008 · 164 citations
- Women at war: Understanding how women veterans cope with combat and military sexual trauma · Social Science & Medicine · 2011 · 147 citations
- The Early Achievement of Modern Stature in America · Social Science History · 1982 · 144 citations
- The Prevalence of Military Sexual Assault Among Female Veterans' Administration Outpatients · Journal of Interpersonal Violence · 2000 · 140 citations
- Medical Profile of Women Veterans Administration Outpatients Who Report a History of Sexual Assault Occurring While in the Military · Journal of Women s Health & Gender-Based Medicine · 1999 · 119 citations
- Mental Health, Quality of Life, and Health Functioning in Women Veterans · Journal of Interpersonal Violence · 2007 · 117 citations
- U.S. Military Veterans Transition to College: Combat, PTSD, and Alienation on Campus · Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice · 2011 · 113 citations
Most recent work
- Crafting veteran to baccalaureate nursing programs · Journal of Professional Nursing · 2026
- Review of the Air Force Academy · Review of the Air Force Academy/Revista Academiei Forţelor Aeriene "Henri Coandă" · 2026
- Beyond Access: Toward a Predictive Support Model for Student Veterans in Higher Education · Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory & Practice · 2026
- Impact of veterans’ military-to-civilian transition experiences on their longer-term mental health · Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · 2026
- Addressing Reintegration Gaps for Student Military Service Members and Veterans: Findings From a Needs Assessment · American Journal of Occupational Therapy · 2026
- Engaging service members and military spouses in the post-deployment transition: A program evaluation of the Brothers at War workshop intervention · Military Psychology · 2026
- When military-to-civilian transition support falls short: A qualitative assessment of transition needs among U.S. Veterans · Military Psychology · 2026
- A History of the Crewe Campus · 2026
- From Battlefield to Blackboard: Applying Military Training Principles to Improve Teaching and Faculty Development · InSight A Journal of Scholarly Teaching · 2026
- Section 504 and disabled student‐veterans: Know how to support those who served · Campus Legal Advisor · 2026
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