The Center for Global Democracy's flagship workshop series brings together survey experts from around the world to exchange ideas on cutting-edge methodology in international survey research 鈥� free, virtual, and open to all.
汤头条 WISM
CGD is a hub of excellence in international survey research at 汤头条 University, dedicated to producing high-quality public opinion data, developing cutting-edge methods, building research capacity, and generating policy-relevant research. Our flagship Workshop on International Survey Methods (WISM) is part of that mission 鈥� a series that brings together faculty, students, and researchers to exchange ideas on survey methodology.
Each session features a survey expert delivering a 30-minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. The series is intentionally trans-institutional, drawing scholarship from multiple disciplines, and fully virtual, so researchers anywhere in the world can take part.
How to Join
All talks are held via Zoom. Sign up for the mailing list to receive session invitations and stay up to date on the schedule.
Fall 2026 Workshops
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Wednesday, September 16
11 am CT
James Martherus - Senior Research Scientist, Morning Consult
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Wednesday, October 21
11 am CT
Luis Schiumerini - Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
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Wednesday, November 18
11 am CT
Amanda Lea Robinson - Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
Past Workshops
Date: 2/25/26 at 11:00 AM CT
Title: Interoperability Challenges in European Research Data Infrastructures
Presenter:听听(Scientific Director at GESIS, and Professor at the University of Cologne)
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Date: 3/25/26 at 11:00 AM CT
Title: Comparing Survey Modes in Sweden: Postal Push-to-Web versus Dual-Frame RDD
Presenter:听听(Associate Director of International Research Methods at Pew Research Center)
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Date: 4/15/26 at 11:00 AM CT
Title: Autocratization Spillover: Can Autocratization Events Abroad Change Citizens' Democratic Attitudes?
Presenter:听听(Assistant Professor at Newcastle University)听
Date: 9/17/25 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听A self-completion survey now. The retirement of face-to-face data collection in the European Social Survey (ESS)
Presenter: Rory Fitzgerald (City St. George's, University of London; Director of the European Social Survey)
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Date: 10/8/25 at 11:00 AM CT
Title: Does Training Activists in Nonviolent Action Work? Evidence from a Meta Analysis of Field Experiments in Sudan, Tunisia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua
Presenter: Consuelo Amat听(Johns Hopkins University)
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Date: 11/5/25 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Representativeness across four remote survey modes in nine Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Presenter: Shana Warren听(Innovations for Poverty Action)
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Date: 2/5/25 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听The Impact of Showcard Use on Selected Point-Rating Scales in Face-to-Face Surveys: Evidence from the European Social Survey
Presenters: Melike Sara莽 (Hacettepe University) and Brady West (University of Michigan)
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Date: 3/12/25 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Resilient Survey Research and Data Collection in the Occupied Palestinian Territories听Samer Said (Research Director and TPM Lead, AWRAD), Tala Barham (Researcher, AWRAD)
Presenters: Samer Said (AWRAD), Tala Barham (AWRAD)听
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Date: 4/23/25 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听An Application of Gridded Population Sampling in Lebanon
Presenter: Raphael Nishimura (University of Michigan)
Date:听10/16/2024 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Are 16-Year-Olds Mature Enough to Vote? Evidence from the听Voto Joven听in Latin America
Presenters:听Ines Levin (UC-Irvine)
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Date: 11/20/24 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听The ESS Framework to Prevent, Monitor, and Assess the Potential for Undesirable Interviewer Behavior: Challenges and Lessons Learned
Presenter: Joost Kappelhof (Netherlands institute for Social Research/SCP)
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Date:听1/31/2024 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听The Geography of Racially Polarized Voting: Calibrating Surveys at the District Level
Presenters:听Shiro Kuriwaki (Yale)
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Date:听2/28/2024 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Improving Representation of Harder-to-Reach Groups in CATI Surveys: Evidence from Seven Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Presenters:听Charles Lau (GeoPoll)
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Date:听3/20/2024 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Evaluating a Two-stage Qualitative Research Approach to Improve Locally Relevant Food Security and Resilience Measures: Lessons Learned from Uganda and Kenya
Presenters:听Caroline Deschak, Julie de Jong, Monica Kothari, Lwendo Moonzwe (ICF International)
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Date:听4/24/2024 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Exploring the nuances of democratic ideals: Insights from a semantic clustering analysis in Chile
Presenters:听Ricardo Gonzalez and Sergio Chaigneau (University Adolfo Ibanez, Chile)
Date:听10/18/2023 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听The Evolution of Mobile-phone Surveys in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Study of Coverage Structure
Presenters:听Mahmoud Elkasabi (RTI International)
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Date:听11/8/2023 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听From Stories to Models: Eliciting Culturally Determined Knowledge from Hyperlocal Populations using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
Presenters:听Clifford Zinnes (NORC at the University of Chicago), Santadarshan Sadhu (NORC), Peter Revay (Two Six Technologies), Rebecca Myhre (Two Six), James Gentile (Two Six)
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Date:听1/18/2023 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Asking about Violence: Evidence and Transparency in research ethics
Presenters:听Lauren Young (UC - Davis) and Hannah Baron (Brown).听
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Date:听2/15/2023 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Natural Language Processing Methods for Open-ended Survey Responses: The case of the 'most important national problem'
Presenters:听Sarah Staveteig Ford, US Department of State
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Date:听3/22/2023 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Mode effects: a within-subject exploration
Presenters:听Carmen Le Foulon, CEP Chile
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Date:听4/19/2023 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听An Exploration of Digital Trace Data Quality
Presenters:听Alexandru Cernat, University of Manchester
Date:听9/21/2022 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Sabbath Surveys and Political Attitude in Israel
Presenters:听Dr. Hannah Ridge, University of Chicago
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Date:听10/19/2022 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听Multinomial Probit Estimation for Electoral Research
Presenters:听Dr. Chris Achen (Princeton) and Dr. Won-ho Park (Seoul National)
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Date:听11/16/2022 at 11:00 AM CT
Title:听听Sensitivity Analysis for Survey Weights
Presenters:听Erin Hartman and听听Melody Huang, UC - Berkeley
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Date:听2/9/2022 at 10:00 AM CT
Title:听Living Standards Measurement Study: an Overview and Future Priorities in Survey Methods
Presenters:听Dr.听听Gero Carletto, World Bank
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Date:听3/2/2022 at 10:00 AM CT
Title:听Mode Effects on Sensitive Questions: Evidence from Arab Barometer Surveys
Presenters:听Dr.听听Michael Robbins, Arab Barometer, Princeton University
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Date:听3/30/2022 at 10:00 AM CT
Title:听Policy analysis during COVID-19: creative approaches to collecting data in sub-Saharan Africa during the pandemic
Presenters:听Dr.听听Sarah Hughes, Mathematica Policy Research
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Date:听4/20/2022 at 10:00 AM CT
Title:听The Impact of Response Styles on Subjective Socioeconomic Status in Cross-national Research
Presenters:听Julie de Jong, University of Michigan
Date:听10/6/2021 at 10:00 AM CT
Title:听Survey Research Comparing the Results of Experiments Across Countries: Surprising Evidence about International Differences and about the Reliability of Scientific Evidence
Presenter:听Dr. Jon Krosnick, Stanford University
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Date:听11/10/2021 at 10:00 AM CT
Title:听Dialing into phone: Polling opportunities and challenges during the pandemic
Presenter:听Patrick Moynihan, Pew Research
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Date:听12/15/2021 at 10:00 AM CT
Title:听Survey and Data Science: Lessons Learned from World鈥榮 Largest Survey on COVID-19
Presenters:听Dr. Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich)