My name (as you can probably guess) is John Poe. I’m an applied social science research methodologist and I teach classes on multilevel and longitudinal data analysis. What makes my courses a bit different is that they are geared towards the advanced topics that you probably won’t find at your home university. I tend to draw from a lot of different fields and methodological traditions ranging from statistics, biostatistics, econometrics, psych methods, ecology, and political methodology.

Over the year of covid hell that we all went through, it slowly became very apparent to me that I didn’t want a regular academically affiliated position. At that time I was working for the University of Michigan Medical School as a Lead Statistician for General Medicine. A job I absolutely loved before covid. I worked with very kind and generous people and had all the resources I could ask for but as things ground on I still felt stuck. Alone. So I decided to move on and start up a business.

I’d enjoyed teaching graduate-level research methods for years as a side job with the ICPSR Summer Program and the GSERM Program in Switzerland. Now I’m doing that full time with virtual classes. I plan to teach varying classes throughout the year. As of right now, my Modern Difference in Difference class has been my main focus. However, I will be offering my Advanced Multilevel Modeling class this fall as well.

Next year (2022), I plan to offer an Advanced Bayesian Multilevel Modeling course, a course on advanced longitudinal and multilevel survey research methods, and one or two classes I might co-teach with others. I’ll be posting updated information about these as it gets firmed up. I still plan to teach for the ICPSR and GSERM programs as well.

A bit about my background:

I received a PhD in Political Science in 2017 from the University of Kentucky. I specialized in political methodology, political behavior, and public policy. While at UK, I was able to take a frankly absurd number of methods classes from my own department, the Martin School of Public Policy, the Economics Department, and a the ICPSR Summer Program. I was also lucky enough to work for 5 years as the program manager for the QIPSR initiative where, among other things, I coordinated methods workshops each year and built a campus-wide directory of every methods course at UK.

While I was still earning my PhD, I started a staff position (and subsequently a post-doc) as an applied econometrician and research methodologist for the Center for Health Services and Systems Research at UK which was at that time the RWJF Systems for Action Coordinating Center. I also worked at the ICPSR summer program first as a TA and then in creating my own Advanced Topics class for multilevel modeling.

After my postdoc, I was hired to work at the Division of General Medicine (Department of Internal Medicine) at Michigan Medicine as a Lead Statistician. Working at one of the best medical schools on the planet during covid was…an experience.