In Field
Client or Primary Investigator: Brenda Longfellow, Roger A. Hornsby Associate Professor, School of Art, Art History, and Design
Project Manager: Lisa Halm-Werner
Project Start: August 27th, 2024
Services Provided: Qualtrics Programming and Reporting Support
Client or Primary Investigator: Sibani Ram
Project Manager: Mike Oie
Project Start: April 1st, 2024
Project Description: The topic of this consultation is analysis of demographic data. The consultant will perform Chi-square testing on collected data and comparative data from workforce statistics.
Services Provided: Statistical Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator: Sylvia Mikucki-Enyart, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Project Manager: Mike Oie
Project Start: June 25th, 2024
Project Description: The center is providing data analysis assistance with quantitative survey data. The research topics of the project include college students' sexual communication and communication in in-law relationships. Analysis includes correlations, regressions, and mediation.
Services Provided: Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator: Isaac Petersen, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: March 4th, 2024
Services Provided: Incentive Management Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator: Maria Emilia Schulter Silva
Project Manager: Mike Oie
Project Start: February 2nd, 2024
Project Description: The consultation will involve two different datasets: the first is concerning the sequence of touches, PPE use, and hand hygiene and the second is from PPE donning and doffing simulations. With both datasets the consultant will help with data visualization, and regression. In the sequence dataset they will look at additional advanced statistical methods.
Services Provided: Statistical Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator: Jamie Kaminski, Graduate Student, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Project Manager: Mike Oie
Project Start: March 13th, 2024
Project Description: The topic of this consultation focused on data and whether neuropsychological test scores and sub scores predict various diagnoses. First the pilot data was reviewed and the consultant provided a walkthrough doing the analysis using R. In the second part, the full study data will be analyzed and reviewed using R.
Services Provided: Statistical Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator: Rene Rocha, Herman J. and Eileen S. Schmidt Chair; Director, Latina/o/x Studies; Professor, Department of Political Science
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: February 7th, 2024
Project Description: The project seeks to understand how bureaucrats in three different agencies—The Department of Homeland Security, The Department of Justice, and The Department of Health of Human Services—responded to the Trump Administration’s 2018 immigration policy of “zero tolerance” and family separation. The projects asks if different professional backgrounds and perceptions of organizational missions affected whether bureaucrats responded by complying with mandates, expressing objections, or disobeying directives. In doing so, this project discusses the challenges of implementing a controversial policy that requires coordination across multiple federal agencies.
Services Provided: IRB Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator: Rachel Zimmermann Smith, Johnson County Attorney
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: June 21st, 2024
Services Provided: Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator(s): Julianna Pacheco, Professor, Department of Political Science; Nicholas Salazar; Nicole Novak, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Behavioral Health
Project Manager: Dawn Bower
Project Start: August 6th, 2024
Project Description: The aim of the community survey is to document the political behavior, civic attitudes, and self[1]reported health outcomes of immigrant groups, especially Latina/o/x individuals, other people of color, and immigrants, living in Iowa. The study is part of a community-partnered project co-led by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) of Iowa. One purpose of the study is to inform LULAC leaders' efforts to promote civic and political engagement among Iowa Latinos.
Services Provided: Data Entry
Client or Primary Investigator: Lisa Gray, Admin Services Coordinator; CLAS Administration
Project Manager: Mike Oie
Project Start: June 24th, 2024
Project Description: This project is to program a Qualtrics instrument for the CLAS Staff Council elections. A data report with vote totals will be exported and shared after voting concludes.
Services Provided: Web Survey
Client or Primary Investigator: Mary Noonan, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology
Project Manager: Lisa Halm-Werner
Project Start: April 29th, 2024
Services Provided: Survey Consultation, Web Survey Programming
Client or Primary Investigator: Sato Ashida, Professor, Department of Community and Behavioral Health
Project Manager: Dawn Bower
Project Start: March 27th, 2023
Project Description: The Center for Social Science Innovation's research services team will conduct phone interviews and recruitment for the Caregivers of Family Members with Dementia. For part of this project, the center will recruit members by phone. For the other part of the study, the center will conduct phone interviews with approximately 143 respondents within 7-10 days after recruitment once they have received their packet (mailed out by client). The center will then conduct follow up interviews after 3 months and then again in 6 months.
Services Provided: Telephone Survey, Web Survey
Client or Primary Investigator: Johnson County Attorney’s Office
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: August 19th, 2024
Project Description: The goals of this evaluation are to conduct a rigorous and informative evaluation that will assist the Attorney’s Office in evaluating the success of the program related to the program’s goals of (1) reducing community violence and gun violence related activities, (2) increasing referrals to service providers for intervention, and (3) reducing involvement with the criminal justice system. The ISRC will work with the Attorney’s office to collect data through various modes to meet these goals.
Services Provided: Focus Group Moderation, Semi-Structured Interview, and Web Survey Support and Distribution
Client or Primary Investigator: Brian Ekdale, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Project Manager: Lisa Halm-Werner
Project Start: December 20th, 2023
Project Description: The Center for Social Science Innovation research services team will moderate focus groups with Professor Brian Ekdale and his team serving as content experts. The client will use the focus groups to study how social media users engage with social media content. Focus group members will be screened and scheduled by the center. This data collection is one of several elements in the broader project.
Services Provided: Web Survey, Focus Group, Transcription
Client or Primary Investigator: Miranda Eleazar Welbourne, Assistant Professor, Tippie College of Business
Project Manager: Dawn Bower
Project Start: May 20th, 2024
Services Provided: Transcription
Client or Primary Investigator: Marc Doobay, MPAS PA-C DFAAPA, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of PA Studies and Services
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: December 27th, 2023
Project Description: Firearm-related injuries are the leading cause of child and adolescent death in the United States. Rural areas have higher rates of firearm-related unintentional and suicide deaths. Focus Groups will be conducted to understand better rural families’ current practices and attitudes regarding firearm and ammunition storage, what practices they would be willing to change to increase safety and prevent injury, and what messaging and safety programming they think would be most effective in educating rural families to improve storage practices and help decrease firearm-related deaths and injuries among adolescents in farming/ranching communities.
Services Provided: Focus group, Transcription, Analysis
Out of Field
Client or Primary Investigator: Colin Gordon, Professor, Department of History
Project Manager: Mike Oie
Project Start: November 30th, 2023
Project End: May 1st, 2024
Project Description: The consultant worked with IPUMS full count census data from 1910 to 1940 and provide descriptive statistics for eight Iowa cities: Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Iowa City, Sioux City, and Waterloo. The statistics include: population by race by enumeration district, occupational counts by race for all those over 16, birthplace for all black respondents, homeownership (number and rate) by race, renters (number and rate) by race, median home value by race, median rent by race, and median income by race (FWAGE1).
Services Provided: Statistical Consultation
Client or Primary Investigator: Neda Barrett, Anya Prince, College of Law DEI Committee Chairs
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: February 13th, 2024
Project End: March 14th, 2024
Project Description: The purpose of the project was to conduct a Spring 2024 College of Law Climate Survey that was complimentary to the UI survey, but more specific to issues within the College of Law. The College of Law Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee drafted a climate survey and received collegiate approval to administer to College of Law faculty, staff, and students.
Services Provided: Web Survey, Reporting
Client or Primary Investigator: Frederick J. Boehmke, Professor, Department of Political Science
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: January 25th, 2024
Project End: March 26th, 2024
Project Description: The Hawkeye Poll is part of the teaching/learning mission of the University as well as a rigorously designed public opinion polling operation. The Hawkeye Poll provides a platform for academic research on political and public policy topics, including elections, policy issues, and attitudes and beliefs about Iowa and the national political/public policy environment.
Services Provided: Web Survey
Client or Primary Investigator: Tessa Heeren, Research Manager, College of Law
Project Manager: Lisa Halm-Werner
Project Start: December 29th, 2023
Project End: April 29th, 2024
Project Description: For more than a decade, Polk County Mental Health & Disability Services (PCMHDS) has enlisted a third-party research team at the University of Iowa to collect and analyze satisfaction-type data from program participants. The Center for Social Science Innovation provides the telephone and in-person data collection services for this annual assessment. Survey respondents answer questions about their experiences and the success of their services. The resultant data is shared with both PCMHDS and the service provider to evaluate provider performance, determine future support, and detect inadequacies, if any exist. Information attained is confidential and helps to inform agency decision-making and funding.
Services Provided: Phone Interview, In-person Interview
Client or Primary Investigator: Peter Damiano, Professor of Preventive & Community Dentistry; Jennifer Sukalski, Assistant Professor of Preventive and Community Dentistry; Julie C. Reynolds, DDS, MS, Assistant Professor of Preventive & Community Dentistry
Project Manager: Dawn Bower
Project Start: August 1st, 2023
Project End: March 1st, 2024
Project Description: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the consumer's perspective of the Iowa state dental insurance program, the Dental Wellness Plan. Survey topics will include access to care, quality of care, costs, provider network adequacy, and member outreach and referral services. The information from this study will be used to evaluate the Dental Wellness Plan, an innovatively designed dental insurance program for low-income adults.
Services Provided: Mail Survey, Mail Survey Tracking
Client or Primary Investigator: Brandi Janssen, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health; Jackie Curnick, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center Community Education Coordinator
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: November 17th, 2023
Project End: March 1st, 2024
Project Description: This survey focuses on environmental health, which relates to the relationships between people, their health, and the environment. Important issues include air, soil, and water quality, the effects of climate change and natural disasters on our communities’ well-being, and access to safe food and housing.
Services Provided: Web Panel Survey
Client or Primary Investigator: Kelly Wood, Clinical Professor, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
Project Manager: Dawn Bower
Project Start: April 29th, 2024
Project End: June 4th, 2024
Services Provided: Transcription
Client or Primary Investigator: Samantha Zuhlke, Assistant Professor, School of Planning and Public Affairs
Project Manager: Cassidy Branch
Project Start: April 17th, 2024
Project Description: This community engagement project consists of hosting listening sessions with immigrant/refugee groups to ascertain tap water concerns and sources of information within these groups. The project will produce recommendations for Polk County and the Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) to a) address drinking water behavior among these groups and b) build relationships with these communities.
Services Provided: Focus Group, Transcription, and Coding
Client or Primary Investigator: Mary Duckworth, Education Policy and Leadership Studies
Project Manager: Dawn Bower
Project Start: November 20th, 2023
Project End: November 22nd, 2024
Services Provided: Transcription