2020 SurveyFest was held on Saturday January 25th, at Stanford University. This one-day conference was aimed at encouraging undergraduate and graduate students from diverse social and demographic characteristics (e.g., sex, gender identity, age, race, religion, ethnic background, nationality, or disability status) to consider graduate studies and careers in the fields of public opinion and survey research.
A big thank you to Ashley Amaya for her service as Survey Practice Editor-in-Chief. Ashley made a number of incredible changes to the journal over the past 3 years including:
Check out these uplifting 75th Anniversary tributes from me and the AAPOR community. They show that no matter where the annual conference is held, this will always be the same: People of AAPOR Make Us Strong. I look forward to working with the Council on the next steps, and continue collaborating with the incredible volunteers on the 2020 Conference Committee, AAPOR History Committee and 75th Anniversary Planning Subcommittee, and my partner Kristen Olson. Let #AAPOR75 be a platform for your voice – reimagined!
Guilty. That’s me. I’m the one responsible for the tardiness of this newsletter. In my defense, the decision about whether to cancel the 2020 Conference with the 75th anniversary celebration was looming, the decision required preparation and consultation, and it was hard to focus on anything else. I could not write about a decision that had not yet been made, but that decision crowded out everything else.
Will your institution or company have access to Public Opinion Quarterly and Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology in 2020? Encourage them to consider purchasing a subscription. Oxford University Press offers subscriptions at institutional and corporate rates for the AAPOR journals each calendar year. Print and online options are available, additional information can be found online.
Leah Christian is the Vice President of Data Science at Nielsen, where she has been for the past seven years. Prior to Nielsen, she was a Senior Research at the Pew Research Center. If she isn’t familiar to you in those roles or through her committee memberships at AAPOR, you might recognize her as a co-author on Internet, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method, or the next edition: Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method. Or maybe you saw the announcement (or award presentation) where Leah was awarded the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award in 2017 for her part in advancing web-push data collection methodologies.
AAPOR welcomes its new Executive Director, Delia Murphy!
The Journalism Education subcommittee is launching a Twitter campaign to share our existing AAPOR resources ahead of the 2020 election (follow @AAPOR on Twitter and share our tweets), they will be hosting a webinar in January for journalists, and will be sending AAPOR representatives to several journalism conferences in 2020.
The AAPOR Education Committee’s Diversity Subcommittee is hosting SurveyFest at Stanford University on January 25, 2020. SurveyFest is a half-day conference aimed at introducing undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds to consider the careers and education in survey methods and public opinion research. Registration for interested graduate and undergraduate students in the bay area is now open. Click here for more information. Click here for a link to the registration.
2020 Webinars have been finalized and are as follows. You can purchase these webinars as a package at a discount when you renew your membership (timing of the webinars TBD):