UWSC’s Nathan Jones will be giving a talk as part of the Center for Demography and Ecology’s Computational Demography summer seminar.
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New staff arrival, awards
Improving the Quality of Your Survey Research: Data Collection Tips from Seasoned Professionals
ICTR CAP Ed & UW Survey Center will be offering a workshop on June 28, 2018. At this event, Survey Center Associate Director John Stevenson and Distinguished Scientist and Senior Survey Methodologist Dr. Jennifer Dykema will discuss the resources the center brings to campus, how to use these resources, and how to enhance your grant applications by adding their expertise.
Nora Cate Schaeffer elected vice-president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
Nora Cate Schaeffer elected vice-president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
Recent findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study show interviewers’ ratings of respondents’ health predict respondents’ mortality over a 3-year follow-up
Recent research indicates survey interviewers’ ratings of respondents’ health may provide important information about the health of respondents in surveys of older adults. Although these ratings are promising, little is known about what information interviewers …
Associate Director John Stevenson named 2017 MAPOR Fellow
The Executive Board of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) named Associate Director John Stevenson as its newest MAPOR Fellow at its November 2017 meeting. MAPOR Fellows are judged by the MAPOR leadership …
UWSC welcomes Ciara Bridges as a project director
Ciara Bridges joined the UW Survey Center project direction team as a Project Director on August 1 2017. Before joining the Survey Center, Ciara worked as a research assistant and telephone interviewer for the Center …
UWSC welcomes Carol Wintheiser as a project director
Carol Wintheiser joined the UW Survey Center project direction team as a Project Director on August 1 2017. Carol originally joined the UW Survey Center in 2010 as a CATI interviewer. After graduating she returned …
Dr. Nora Cate Schaeffer named 2015 MAPOR Fellow
On November 20th, at the 40th annual MAPOR Conference (Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research), Dr. Nora Cate Schaeffer, UW Survey Center faculty director and Sewell Bascom Professor of Sociology, was named MAPOR’s 2015 Fellow. …
UWSC Survey Methodologist Jennifer Dykema elected to serve as Associate Conference Chair of AAPOR
Jennifer Dykema, Survey Methodologist and Senior Scientist at the UW Survey Center, has been elected to serve as the Associate Conference Chair of AAPOR (American Association for Public Opinion Research). (Click here for AAPOR’s press …
UWSC welcomes Linda Gomez as a CATI Survey Research Supervisor
Linda Gomez joined the UW Survey Center CATI Survey Research Supervisor team on January 20, 2015. Linda has several years experience working in UW Survey Center CATI operations as a CATI Interviewer and CATI Shift …