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Community Studies Methods: A Resource Guide for Students
Below is a list of Vanderbilt faculty who do work in community studies. This web page is intended to serve as a resource for students who may have questions or need guidance in various qualitative and quantitative methods that are used in conducting community research.
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Bruce Barry: Management and Sociology, Owen Graduate School of Management
Contact: bruce.barry@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: experimental design, attitude surveys, questionnaire design, quasi-experiments, q sorts, ols regression, anova, exploratory factor analysis
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Leonard Bickman: Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College; Director, Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement
Contact: leonard.bickman@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: field experiments, randomized design, measurement
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Tony N. Brown: Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
Contact: tony.n.brown@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: cross-tabular analysis, descriptive statistics and graphs, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, logistic regression, missing data, OLS regression, questionnaire design, survey methods
Experience: event history analysis, focus groups, generalized linear models, multiple imputation, structural equation modeling, survey sampling, time series models
Software: R, Stata, SPSS
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Jim Fraser: Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College
Contact: pavement@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: qualitative methods (e.g., ethnography, multisite case study); mixed-method projects (project design, pairing qualitative, quantitative, and spatial methods)
Experience: ordinary least squares regression, logistic regression, structural equation models, spatial statistics
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Craig Anne Heflinger: Human and Organizational Development, Associate Director of Graduate Education, Peabody College
Contact: c.heflinger@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: mixed methods (e.g., combining in depth interviews with survey administration and use of existing data sets), policy case studies, using existing data sets (e.g., Medicaid, agency administrative, national surveys) for secondary analysis, focus groups, in-depth qualitative interviews, scale development (published Caregiver Strain Questionnaire; currently developing a scale of public stigma about children's mental health)
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Torin Monhahan: Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College; Department of Medicine
Contact: torin.monahan@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: ethnography, interviewing, participant observation, discourse, media analysis
Experience: photographic methods, artistic interventions, internet studies
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Doug Perkins: Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College
Contact: douglas.d.perkins@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: quantitative and qualitative survey research; observational methods: participant-observer, naturalistic observation, systematic environmental assessment; program evaluation, including quasi-experimental design; case studies
Experience: social indicators [crime, census, educational, health], focus groups, historical/archival analysis, HLM, GIS, social network analysis, multivariate quantitative & qualitative (content) analysis
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Susan Saegert: Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College; Director, Center for Community Studies
Contact: susan.c.saegert@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: action research, qualitative interviewing and data analysis, observational methods, surveys
Experience: standard quantitative data analysis, design of hierarchical linear model research, data interpretation
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David Schlundt: Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences; Meharry Medical College, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Contact: d.schlundt@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: health psychology, behavioral assessment and intervention, development and validation of measurement tools, community based participatory research, environmental influences on behavior, community needs assessment, qualitative methods, census and other geographic data sets, multilevel modeling
Software: SPSS, HLM, SUDAAN, Arcview GIS
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Beth Shinn: Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College
Contact: beth.shinn@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: longitudinal survey methods, finding hard-to-reach populations, field experiments, ecological assessment (i.e., assessing social settings), evaluation research, plant-capture methods
Experience: mixed methods, group-randomized trials, survey feedback, community collaborative research
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Ken Wallston: Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College; Psychology, School of Nursing
Contact: ken.wallston@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: scale development and validation, experimental and quasi-experimental design, survey methods and questionnaire design, exploratory factor analysis, item analysis, multiple regression analysis
Experience: qualitative methods, lab studies
Software: SPSS
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Gilman Whiting: Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College; Director of Undergraduate Studies, African American and Diaspora Studies
Contact: g.whiting@vanderbilt.edu
Expertise: qualitative methods, at-risk populations (presently refining pre-test post-test measures for the Scholar Identity Model), see Scholar Identity on Youtube.com
Experience: mixed methods
Software: ATLAS-ti