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Methodology Consultation Staff

Holly Laws

Director, CRF Methodology Program
Lecturer, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Involvement: 

Research: 

Dr. Laws joined the CRF Methodology Program as Co-Director in Fall 2017. Formerly an Associate Research Scientist in Yale University's Psychiatry Department, Dr. Laws also serves as a research psychologist in the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. Her research focuses on using novel statistical methodologies to examine processes within close relationships implicated in mental and physical health. She has conducted multiple methodological workshops on the topic of multilevel modeling, including longitudinal, dyadic and daily diary applications. She received a Career Development Award from the VA's Rehabilitation Research and Development service, a study using dyadic methodology to examine and compare associations between relationship quality and well-being in male and female veterans and their relationship partners.

Office Location: 

Tobin 616

Email: 

hlaws@umass.edu

Joel Ginn

Methodology Consultant

Involvement: 

Bio: 

Joel joined CRF in Spring 2018 as a methodology consultant. He has been trained in ANOVA, regression, and HLM and works primarily with SPSS and the PROCESS macro, though he has some training in HLM, MPlus, and R. As a consultant, Joel works with clients to conduct and interpret analyses and can aid in developing plans for data analysis. In his own work he studies the underlying psychology of climate change motivations, specifically why people do, or do not, choose to reduce their meat consumption for environmental reasons.

Email: 

jcginn@umass.edu

Etienne Holder

Methodology Consultant

Involvement: 

School or College: 

School of Public Health and Health Sciences

Bio: 

Etienne is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences. She joined CRF in Fall 2021 as a methodology consultant with training in survival analysis, regression, and multivariate statistics. She primarily works in SAS and Stata but also has training in R and SPSS. In her own work, she studies the relationship between estrogenic activity, vitamin D and breast cancer risk and survival.

Email: 

exholder@umass.edu

Stylianos Syropoulos

Methodology Consultant

Involvement: 

Award: 

Methodology Workshop Scholarship

School or College: 

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Bio: 

Stylianos (Stelios) Syropoulos is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Social Psychology and the Psychology of Peace and Violence. Stylianos joined the CRF Methodology Team in the fall of 2021. He is proficient with SPSS, Mplus and SAS, and has received training in R. He has received training in and frequently uses ANOVA, Regression, Structural Equation Modelling and Hierarchical Linear Modelling (including Dyadic Data analysis) in his research. His work focuses on the antecedents of peace, intergroup conflict, and national identification.

Email: 

ssyropoulos@umass.edu

Student Award Academic Year: 

Dongwei Wang

Methodology Consultant

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Bio: 

Dongwei joined CRF in Spring 2018 as a Methodology Consultant and also serves as a Data Manager/Analyst for Rudd Adoption Program. She graduated from University at Buffalo where she had her training in quantitative research methodology which includes ANOVA, regression, hierarchical linear modeling, survival analyses. She also has knowledge of several statistical packages, such as SPSS, HLM, R, and SAS. She will be helping clients with research design, statistical analyses as well as results interpretation using her backgrounds in research methodology and experience conducting research using large-scale data.

Email: 

dongweiwang@umass.edu
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