Experience

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  See Change Institute

  • Research Director

    • Aug 2023 - Present
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  California Plug Load Research Center (CalPlug)

  • United States
  • Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Research Director, California Plug Load Research Center

    • 2019 - 2022

  • Project Manager, Social Sciences

    • 2013 - 2019

    Co-lead researcher for large-scale survey of computer users’ behaviors at home and work; co-designed study, designed survey questions, conducted cognitive pretesting and pilot testing, programmed online survey, recruited participants. Lead researcher for follow-up study of selected work computers; designed and implemented study, including research visits and long-term monitoring of computer activity; hired, trained, and supervised research staff. Analyzed data for both studies, lead author on reports to funding agency, consulted with California Energy Commission about policy implications, presented research results to academic, policy, and industry audiences. Writing articles for conference and journal submission. Represent the Institute as lead behavioral researcher; network and forge connections with academic, policy, and industry stakeholders; collaborate on grant proposals, reports, and research across the Institute.

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  UC Irvine

  • Department of Sociology

  • Assistant Professor

    • 2002 - 2012
    • Department of Sociology

    Taught undergraduate courses on Marriage and Families, Aging and the Life Course, and Sociology Majors Seminar: Transition to Adulthood. Taught graduate courses on Gender and Work, Marriage and Cohabitation, Graduate Proseminar II (guiding masters' theses for second year cohort), and Survey R...

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  Cornell University

  • Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute

  • Predoctoral Fellow

    • 1996 - 2002
    • Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute

    Extensive instrument development, trained graduate students in in-depth interviewing, reviewed papers of other Institute members, data analysis, co-wrote progress reports for funding agency.For dissertation, designed and implemented study involving hour-long semi-structured interviews with both m...

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  Various clients

  • Research Consultant

    • 1993 - 2000

    Survey instrument development, survey project design, CATI programming, training. Clients include Harvard Medical School (Boston MA), St. Joseph's Hospital (Ann Arbor MI), and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin).

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  University of Michigan Institute for Social Research

  • United States
  • Research Services
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Co-Project Manager

    • 1994 - 1996

    Coordination of collaborators’ input; instrument development; internal project management; liaison to external survey firm; development of refusal prevention protocol and revised interviewer training on obtaining occupation and industry data; refusal conversion; respondent liaison.

  • Research Associate

    • 1991 - 1996

    Multiple surveys. Project management of the first nationally representative study of adult twins, including sampling and budget; instrument development; developing training manuals and interviewer protocol; interviewer hiring, training and supervision; interviewing (including extensive training and experience with the unstructured Life Events and Difficulties (LEDs) diagnostic instrument); developed protocol and managed respondent tracking and refusal conversion for a national longitudinal study; created and maintained respondent databases; CAI programming; organized and ran international training conference on UM-CIDI (Composite International Diagnostic Instrument).