Welcome Delia Murphy
AAPOR welcomes its new Executive Director, Delia Murphy!
Journalist Education
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.
SurveyFest 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
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):
Short Courses
Short Courses for the 2020 Conference have been finalized and are as follows. Timing of the courses at the conference is TBD.
- Text Messaging for Conducting Survey Interviews (Frederick Conrad, Andrew Hupp, and Michael Schober)
- Employing Text Analytics for Survey Data (Joe Sutherland)
- Cognitive Interviewing and Psychometrics for Improving Validity of Survey Questions (Jose-Luis Padilla)
- Quick Lessons for Communicating and Visualizing Quantitative Information (Regina Nuzzo)
- Biosocial Data Collection and Analysis (Colter Mitchell and Jessica Faul)
- A Practical Introduction to Using Voter Registration Databases for Survey Research: From Sampling to Hybrid Estimation (Masahiko Aida and Jonathan Robinson)
- Essential Tools for Working in R for Public Opinion and Survey Researchers (Brady West)
- Doing Reproducible Research (Alexandru Cernat)
People of AAPOR Make Us Strong
We received 891 abstract proposals, and >25% more members than in the past volunteered to serve as peer reviewers! Thank you for making the 2020 Conference program strong. My team and I carefully read each proposal and the peer review results, and then integrated abstracts into sessions. Once AAPOR completes the scheduling, notifications will go out. In the meantime, I’d love your help with planning AAPOR's 75th anniversary celebration:
- Click here to add your voice to history
- Share ideas for the 75th Anniversary Exhibit
- Vote in the #AAPOR75 slogan contest for the official conference t-shirt.
Chapter Spotlight: MAPOR
MAPOR recently convened its 44th annual conference, our largest ever at 256 attendees! The conference featured a keynote address on "Politics, Privacy and Data for Policy in U.S. Censuses" by Barbara Anderson of the University of Michigan. We also had a pedagogy hour presented by Justine Bulgar-Medina of NORC at the University of Chicago on "The Measurement of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Survey Research," as well as a short course on "Survey Weighting" by Brady West of the University of Michigan. The conference also featured four different panels, a working group, and papers and posters presented from almost 50 different institutions based on first authorship alone. We were very pleased to introduce Tom W. Smith of NORC at the University of Chicago as our newest MAPOR fellow this year, in addition to new and continued student-focused activities.
Thanksgiving …
When I teach students about professional organizations and why they should care about them, I explain that AAPOR is a center of the science in our field through the annual conference and the journals. I describe how AAPOR serves us as practitioners by giving us a forum in which to deliberate about our aspirations – expressed in the codes of ethics and conduct, standards of practice, the Transparency Initiative, and more – and to monitor the environment in which we work.
Chapter Spotlight: NYAAPOR
NYAAPOR has gotten off to a great start for the 2019-20 year!
In September, NYAAPOR conducted a “Writing Better Questionnaires” session with David Harris author of the Complete Guide to Writing Questionnaires. Registration for the session included a copy of his book.
NYAAPOR recently completed a membership survey and is already transforming the organization based on insights from the survey. Some of the changes we’ve made include:
Call for Executive Council Nominations
The AAPOR Executive Council Call for Nominations are open! Do you know someone whose expertise and values should be represented on the AAPOR Council? Would you personally like to play a leadership role in AAPOR and have a voice at the table? Each year we ask the AAPOR community to nominate qualified candidates for service on AAPOR’s Executive Council. Council members represent the general membership and provide leadership and oversight for AAPOR’s policies, finances and activities.