Paul's research interests include emotions in education, teacher identity development, race and ethnicity in educational contexts, and research methods and methodologies. He is a past president of the American Psychological Associations Division 15: Educational Psychology, a former co-editor of the Educational Researcher: Research News and Comments, and a co-editor of the upcoming Handbook of Educational Psychology, Volume 4. Recent publications include Teachers’ goals, beliefs, emotions, and identity development (Schutz, Hong, & Cross Francis, 2020); Why Talk About Qualitative and Mixed Methods in Educational Psychology? Introduction to Special Issue (Meyer, & Schutz) (2020); and Joint displays for mixed methods research in psychology (McCrudden, Marchand, & Schutz, 2021).