“Quality surveys give people a voice in science” by UWSC Faculty Director Nora Cate Schaeffer, was part of the Wisconsin State Journal’s May 7, 2017 special section “Fueling Discovery”. The article about UWSC is featured …
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UWSC helped collect survey data for Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story
In 2013, Washington Post staff writer Amy Goldstein spent several months as a visiting scholar at UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty laying the groundwork for her recently released book on how Janesville weathered the …
UWSC’s Assistance with Conducting the First Ever UW-Madison Student Climate Survey Highlighted in Inside UW-Madison News
In its May 2nd edition, Inside UW-Madison News shared an update on diversity efforts at UW-Madison. In the article, they described the 18 initiatives to be achieved in phases over a 10- year period. The …
The Wisconsin Moms Study (WiscMoms)
The Wisconsin Moms Study (WiscMoms) is a study of about 250 mothers of young children in the Milwaukee area. Researchers are interested in a number of topics, among them the household make-up of families in which siblings might have different fathers, the security and availability of food and other necessary resources, and the ways in which young mothers make use of their social network.
UWSC Staff to participate in the 51st annual International Field Directors and Technologies Conference (IFD&TC)
Many staff from the UWSC will participate in the 51st annual IFD&TC in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 21st – 24th 2017. Staff will participate by giving presentations, leading panel and round table discussions, and …
UWSC researchers examine factors associated with providing biomarkers by mail among graduates in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
UWSC researchers along with collaborators at Loyola University Chicago and UW-Madison recently published findings in Public Opinion Quarterly of a study examining factors associated with compliance to a request to provide a salivary DNA sample …
UWSC staff to participate in the 72nd annual AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research) Conference
Several staff from the UWSC will present at the annual meeting of the 2017 conference of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 18-21. As in previous years, …
Big Read author and UWSC client Matthew Desmond talks about Evicted
On Tuesday November 1, Matthew Desmond will discuss his book Evicted as part of the UW’s Go Big Read events: https://gobigread.wisc.edu/. Desmond, a MacArthur Fellow who is currently at Harvard, received his Ph.D. in Sociology …
University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Climate Student Survey
The UW Survey Center worked in collaboration with the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Educational Achievement to conduct a campus-wide student climate survey in the fall of 2016.
UWSC’s John Stevenson and Kerryann DiLoreto interviewed by Andrew Flowers, of Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight.com
A new article on FiveThirtyEight.com, “How We Undercounted Evictions By Asking The Wrong Questions,” underscores the critical role of UWSC in successfully executing Matt Desmond’s groundbreaking study on eviction in Milwaukee. Over many years and …