Tara Courtney joined the SESRC team in January 2021. She is a member of the supervisory team responsible for project deadlines and administration of data collection. She received a Bachelors in Conservation Social Science from the University of Idaho in 2008. She oversees all phases of large-scale mailings, develops part-time employees’ schedules and monitors attendance. […]
Adam McKee joined the SESRC in April 2020. He has his PhD in Sociology and graduate-level training in qualitative and quantitative methods. As a research assistant professor, Adam designs and performs evaluations on large, federally funded grants. Adam conducts statistical analysis in SPSS and STATA and thematic coding and analysis in MAXQDA and NVivo. His […]
Ian has been working with SESRC for five years, he has a Bachelor of Sciences in Biology. He is a member of the supervisory team responsible for project deadlines and administration of data collection. He oversees all phases of large-scale mailings, develops part-time employees’ schedules, and monitors attendance. Additionally, Ian trains interviewers on specialized projects, […]
Lauren Scott joined the SESRC in September 2018. She has her Ph.D. in Sociology and graduate-level training in qualitative and quantitative methods. As a project manager, Lauren is responsible for managing all aspects of survey research projects including client interaction, project planning, survey questionnaire and material design, sample management, and survey implementation.
James McCall joined the SESRC in June 2019. He has his Ph.D. in Sociology and graduate level training in quantitative methods. As a project manager, James is responsible for managing all aspects of survey research projects including client interaction, project planning, survey questionnaire design (respondent correspondences, web-survey programming, and paper questionnaire design), survey implementation, sample […]
Nathan Palmer has been working at the SESRC since 2012 and earned a Masters of Science in Statistics that same year. Mr. Palmer is responsible for the management and storage of all data files. In that responsibility, Mr. Palmer manages and clean the data files during the data collection period, then finalizes the dataset. Mr. […]
Dan Vakoch has an M.S. in Zoology, and has worked with SESRC since 1993. Dan Vakoch has over 21 years of survey research analysis experience. As a Scientific Programmer and Data Analyst, Mr. Vakoch is responsible for SAS programming and statistical analysis on projects. Mr. Vakoch had served as a SAS, statistical, and data analyses […]
Yi-Jen Wang has been with SESRC since 2002 and has a M.A. in Political Science. Ms. Wang has over 15 years of survey research experience which includes implementing and managing projects, communicating with survey clients, and designing and conducting survey administrative data analyses.
Mr. Allen, study director and web survey specialist, is responsible for implementing and managing survey research projects at SESRC. He has served as project director for survey methods research at the center over the past three decades and is an expert at administering multi-mode data collection projects. Mr. Allen has years of experience applying visual design […]