Meet Kellie
Kellie is a recent Ph.D. of the Public and Applied Sociology program at George Mason University. Her research interests include applied sociology, evaluation research, geospatial, globalization, sociology of education, statistics and quantitative methodology.
Research Skills
Qualitative
Quantitative
Geospatial
developing a research protocol, conducting interviews and focus groups, observations and field notes, coding qualitative data (Dedoose, MAXQDA, Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey)
database creation, cleaning, and management, variable cleaning and coding, survey design and distribution, descriptive analyses, regression modeling (SPSS by IBM, Excel, Python, ACS Data, GSS Data)
acquiring, analyzing, interpreting and presenting spatial analysis (ArcGIS Pro by ESRI, Social Explorer, NHGIS data)
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
Kellie S. Wilkerson, Ph.D. 