Graduate Student Assistants

The IPR began training undergraduate and graduate research assistants in research design and survey research in 1971. The IPR continues to provide students the opportunity to apply classroom learning in a research setting.

Working in conjunction with IPR Research Associates, graduate assistants (GAs) are involved in most aspects of the research process including training of interviewers, statistical programming, data collection, coding and data analysis. This involvement allows graduate assistants to see classroom theory translated into practical day-to-day research activities. Further, this involvement, combined with in-house training in survey research methodology and statistical software, provides students with the ability to hone their methodological and statistical skills as well as to refine their analytic capabilities. GAs benefit from easy access to public data collected or stored in the IPR data archive and from the widespread recognition of the IPR as a leader in the survey research field.

Current IPR Graduate Students Include:

Dan Birdsong has been with the IPR since 2005 assisting in data management, questionnaire authoring, study design, primary data collection, data analysis, report writing and presentations of findings.  He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science working on his dissertation, “Who Owns the Blank Slate? The Competition for News Frames and the Effect on Public Opinion.”  His research interests include American Politics, the Media, and Public Opinion.

Misook Gwon has been with the IPR since 2006 working mostly on the analysis of public opinion polling data and survey research using SPSS. She is a Ph. D. student in the Department of Political Science. Her research interests include American government, Public Opinion Polling, Public Policy and Democracy, in particular, survey questions and the variations in the polling results.

Aaron Howell is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati.  In his graduate program, Aaron is studying urban sociology and race relations.   Aaron has an MA in Sociology from UC and a BS in Sociology from Kansas State University.  

Ashley Kanotz is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati.  In her graduate program, Ashley is studying American Politics and International Relations/Comparative Politics.  She has a BA in Political Science from the University of Toledo. 

Sarawuth Naramngam is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography and is working on his dissertation, "Modeling the impacts of agricultural management practices on water quality in the Little Miami River Basin." His research interests include GIS application, Hydrologic Modeling, and Environment/Water Quality.