Mohamed A. Ali-Salad is a researcher at the SIDRA Institute. He has over five years of experience in research areas including migration health, health systems, and maternal and child health in Somalia. He holds a master’s degree in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from SRM Institute of Science and Technology. Mohamed is currently a fellow on Wits-Edinburgh Sustainable African Futures (WESAF) Doctoral Programme.
Alexander W Mbuya is working in a Kibong'oto Infectious Disease Hospital which is in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. and Alexander W Mbuya is a versatile writer and researcher published many valuable papers in the specifiled field.
Patrick Fournier is a full professor in the department of political science at the Université de Montréal.
Fred Cutler (Ph.D. Michigan) does research in public opinion, elections, federalism, and political psychology. He is also an educational technology leader and a startup founder who teaches courses based on teamwork. Fred insists that you call him Fred, whoever you are. Fred has published in POQ, JOP, BJPolS, CJPS, Publius, Political Geography, Electoral Studies, and has chapters in various edited volumes. A recent research project involves lab experiments to understand the effects of different numbers of political parties on voters and their satisfaction with democracy (electoraldemocracy.com). He received SSHRCC funding on a project called Polls and Elections. His earlier research focused on the effect of federalism on political behaviour and government accountability. Much of his work has investigated the influence of the local social and economic environment on how people think about politics. Fred was one of four investigators on the Canadian Election Study 2011 and 2015, the flagship academic survey on Canadian public opinion and voting behaviour.
I am a Professor in the Departments of Communication and Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. My research focuses on political communication, political psychology, and the relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media. I have been particularly interested in negativity (and positivity) in news coverage, and the role of mass media in representative democracy. This site includes descriptions of these ongoing Projects, published Research (including data and content analytic tools), my Lab & Teaching, and links to recent News & Blogs related to my work.
BA(Psych) VU, GradDip(Psych) Deakin, MSc(Applied Statistics) Swinburne Marina is a Research Fellow in the Educational Monitoring and Research Division, ACER Melbourne. With over 13 years’ experience working on international assessments such as PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS, Marina has developed great in-depth knowledge in working on large scale assessments and has been involved in a range of activities, like survey operations, data analysis and report writing. In 2016, Marina was awarded a Master of Science (Applied Statistics) at Swinburne University.
Dr Sue Thomson was ACER’s Deputy CEO (Research) until October 2022. She provided senior leadership to staff in several research programs including Surveys and International Assessments, System-wide Testing, Educational Policy and Practice, Education and Development and Tertiary Education. In October 2018, Sue was elected to join the Standing Committee of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). Dr Thomson was the National Research Coordinator for Australia in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), which measures achievement in mathematics and science for students in grades 4 and 8, the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), which measures reading literacy of grade 4 students, and the National Project Manager for Australia for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which examines reading, mathematical and scientific literacy of 15-year-old students. Dr Thomson's research at ACER involved extensive analysis of large-scale national and international data sets - the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), as well as TIMSS and PISA. She collaborated on projects involving analysis of the longitudinal data collection associated with PISA. She has experience with a wide range of complex statistical procedures, including cluster analysis, discriminant analysis and multi-level modelling. The PISA and TIMSS reports produced by Dr Thomson and her team are widely recognised as world-class, and have led to similar work for Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, and Indonesia. Dr Thomson joined ACER in 1998 and spent a number of years as a member of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth project team. She also managed the Australian component of Schools around the World, an international project examining assessment in science and mathematics, and Project Good Start, which examined children's numeracy in the transition from preschool to the first year of school. She was engaged as an expert writer on the National Numeracy Review, and has consulted with DEEWR, FaHCSIA and the Victorian and ACT Departments of Education on a variety of data analysis projects related to TIMSS and PISA. Before joining ACER, Dr Thomson lectured at a number of universities in Statistics and Research Methodology while she completed her PhD focusing on students' attributions and engagement in mathematics over the transition from primary to secondary school. Prior to that Dr Thomson worked as a Mathematics and IT teacher in government secondary schools in Victoria. Dr Thomson has published a variety of articles, research reports and conference papers based on her work (see also under Sue Fullarton).