Alumni and Friends

Dr. Pam Campanelli

My first job after graduating with a B.A. in psychology was working for the ICPSR data archive. Here I discovered survey research and after archiving a number of studies, became very keen to be on the data collection side! This led to working with a health psychology survey team at the University of Michigan's Office for Educational Research and Resources and to starting Bob Groves' new masters programme in Applied Social Research on a part-time basis. I started with the second cohort of the programme in 1984. More >

Emily McFarlane

I was introduced to survey methodology during my summer internship with the Joint Program in Survey Methodology (JPSM). The JPSM program stood out over other internship opportunities because it was the first program I saw that combined both of my undergraduate majors: social sciences and statistics. During the internship, I worked at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), where I was able to use my cognitive psychology background to learn more about the processes used by respondents to answer survey questions and I was able to use my statistics knowledge to analyze survey research in health and social sciences. I also took weekly seminars on survey research from Bob Groves at the University of Maryland, where I learned more about the survey methodology field. More >

Noppadon Kannika

I was a student in Survey Methodology at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and received my master's degree in 2004. I studied at the University previously at several of the Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques sessions, where I earned certificates in survey sampling and focus groups before joining the master's degree program. More >