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Institute for Social Research (ISR)

Jess Francis-levin

I am a gerontechnologist and mixed-methodologist. My work examines how emerging technology use, such as virtual reality, may impact the overall health and well-being of the older adult community. With an emphasis on social connectivity, I develop technological interventions designed to promote independence and mitigate the negative consequences of social isolation. A primary consideration in ...

William Axinn

Dr. Axinn is a Professor of survey research, population studies, sociology, and public policy at the University of Michigan. Axinn is a social demographer studying community, intergenerational, and social psychological influences on marriage, childbearing, reproductive health, mental health, and the natural environment. He is the former director of Michigan’s Survey Research Center, which has an ...

James Wagner

James Wagner, Ph.D. is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center (UM-SRC). His research is in the area of survey nonresponse and methods for addressing it during data collection. He has co-authored a book on adaptive survey design — which is a set of methods that aims to optimize the recruitment ...

David Rigby

I completed my PhD in sociology at UNC Chapel Hill followed by teaching at Washington University St. Louis, a postdoctoral fellowship at Duke with the sociology department and population research institute, and I am now a research scientist at the UM Institute for Social Research in the Landscapes of Population Health program. In my research ...

Atiyya Shaw

Dr. Shaw’s research program innovates around data and methods for prioritizing user-centered outcomes in transportation engineering and urban planning. She applies a range of analytical approaches (e.g., statistical matching, transfer learning) to: (1) address biases and other shortcomings present in active (e.g., survey data) and passive (e.g., GPS location data, marketing data, etc.) data; and ...

Briana Mezuk

Dr. Mezuk is the Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health and is an Associate Chair in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is a psychiatric epidemiologist whose research focuses on understanding the intersections of mental and physical health. Much of her work has ...

A.J. Million

A.J is a  Research Investigator at ICPSR who also studies topics like public-sector information technology use, scholarly communication, research data management, and public administration. His work can be found on Google Scholar.

Amie Gordon

My research focuses on understanding the social cognitive, affective, and biological factors that shape our closest relationships. I am particularly interested in identifying factors that help romantic couples and families maintain high quality relationships. My work draws upon a variety of methods, including experimental, observational, naturalistic (e.g., daily experience), and physiological, to capture people at ...

Matthew VanEseltine

Dr. VanEseltine is a sociologist and data scientist working with large-scale administrative data for causal and policy analysis. His interests include studying the effects of scientific infrastructure, training, and initiatives, as well as the development of open, sustainable, and replicable systems for data construction, curation, and dissemination. As part of the Institute for Research on ...

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Daniel Almirall

Associate Professor, Survey Research CenterInstitute for Social ResearchStatistics, LSA

William Axinn

Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Research Professor, Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research; Interim Director, International Policy Center; Professor of Public Policy

Jowei Chen

Associate Professor, Political Science, LSACenter for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research

Gerald Davis

Professor, Management, Ross School of Business Sociology, LSA Institute for Social Research

Pamela Davis-Kean

Professor, Psychology, LSA Institute for Social Research

Walter Dempsey

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Assistant Research Professor at the Institute of Social Research, Department of Biostatistics

Allison Earl

, Psychology

Allyson Flaster

Assistant Research Scientist

Jess Francis-levin

Research Investigator, Institute for Social Research