• Qualitative and integrated (mixed methods) research design
• Sampling strategy
• Interview protocol, focus group protocol, and survey/scale development
• Staff training, monitoring, and quality control evaluation
• Data management, analysis, interpretation, and preparation for publication

Dr. Lieber has spent the last decade focused on developing and implementing strategies and solutions for effectively conducting integrated (mixed methods) research.  Initially trained as a quantitative psychologist specializing in social-cognitive development and measurement, his post-doctoral training and subsequent work have included teaming with colleagues from a wide variety of other social science disciplines. The result of this experience—expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods—have proven to be the ideal preparation for his present focus on integrated methods and research design.  In particular he has earned a sterling reputation for developing creative strategies to maximize the use of technology in social science research—his contributions to the development of EthnoNotes being the primary outcome.

Dr. Lieber’s professional research interests center on Asian and Asian immigrant populations and children with Type 1 diabetes and their families.  Many of these interests have grown from his nearly five years of work in Taiwan and his continued collaboration with investigators in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China in the study of social cognition, social cognitive development, parenting styles and practices, and the general adaptation of families to the challenges of immigration and a modernizing world.  He has published a number of articles based on this research and the development and application of integrated methods.

Dr. Lieber received his B.A in Psychology from California State University, Northridge (1988) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1996).  He currently holds the position of Research Psychologist and Co-Director of the Fieldwork and Qualitative Data Research Laboratory, Semel Institute, Center for Culture and Health, UCLA.

Dr. Weisner is an internationally- recognized leader in the systematic application of mixed methods in the social sciences. His research interests are in culture and human development, medical, psychological and cultural studies of families and children at risk, mixed methods research, and evidence-based policy studies. Working for decades with multi-disciplinary groups, Dr. Weisner has made major contributions to the development of methods for the study of families and children.  He has developed the Ecocultural Family Interview for understanding the everyday routine of family life – a mixed methods approach.

Dr. Weisner’s research includes studies in Kenya, Hawaii, and the U.S.  He has studied sibling caretaking of children, families with children with disabilities, countercultural families and children, working poor families and children, and early literacy in Head Start programs and families, among other studies.  He is the co-author of Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children (2007) (with Greg Duncan and Aletha Huston); co-editor of Making it work: Low-wage employment, family life and child development (with Hiro Yoshikawa & Edward Lowe), (2006); editor of Discovering successful pathways in children's development: New methods in the study of childhood and family life (2005); and co-editor of African families and the crisis of social change (with Candice Bradley and Phil Kilbride) (1997).

We’ve been in the forefront of the effort to develop creative solutions for designing, conducting, managing, and analyzing the data from research that blends qualitative and quantitative methods. A key focus of our work has been to capitalize on the best of what each method has to offer in solving research problems.  Our consultations always strive to be focused and specific to each problem, forward-thinking, imaginative, systematic, reliable, and results-oriented—those standards that guide the best of professional academic research.

• Develop and deliver the next generation of EthnoNotes
• Provide our professional academic research knowledge and skills to any investigator interested in the most innovative, reliable, and valid qualitative and integrated methods

We’re proud to bring you our latest version of EthnoNotes.  But SCRC is much more than EthnoNotes.  We are experts in supporting all aspects of research.  And most importantly, we sit at the frontier edge of those developing and implementing integrated (mixed methods) approaches in the social sciences.  We are your gateway to a network of professional researchers with both methodological and applied expertise.  SCRC is prepared to provide you with guidance in:

• Research design
• Sampling decisions
• Staff training and quality control
• Data collection strategy
• Data organization and management
• Code system development and application
• Code system reliability establishment
• Data integration
• Data analysis, interpretation, and presentation

Through our work we have come to meet, know, and respect many professionals in academia and the private sector.  As EthnoNotes and SCRC have grown, we have engaged a number of these individuals who we feel are both consistent with and complementary to the goals and strengths that have guided our work.  We recognize that there exists a great variety of support needs for researchers and others who can benefit from the guidance of skilled and experienced methodologists.  Our partners represent a wide range of knowledge, skill, and experience and have agreed to consider serving SCRC clients when an appropriate fit arises.  Let us know what you need and SCRC will do all it can to find the right support for you.

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