Abbey Hammell

Abbey Hammell, MA

Survey Researcher and Qualtrics Brand Administrator

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Summary

Abbey’s 8+ years of experience in social science research spans all stages of research project development, from questionnaire design and laying a data collection roadmap, to clearly communicating research findings and impacts to a wide audience. Her primary strengths lie in online survey design, online survey programming, data cleaning/analysis, data visualization, and teaching technical research methods/tools. Abbey delights in working on a wide variety of research questions about human thoughts, opinions, and behaviors, having consulted on projects with individuals from a diverse array of backgrounds, such as psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, institutional administrators, government officials, students, conservation scientists, and others.

 

Education

  • MA - Psychology, University of Minnesota
  • BA - Psychology & Spanish, Winona State University

 

Skills and Training

  • questionnaire design
  • online participant/respondent recruitment
  • complex Qualtrics programming
  • human-subjects experimental design
  • quantitative data analysis
  • statistical modeling
  • data visualization
  • data cleaning & management
  • IRB protocols
  • project management
  • research methods/tools workshops
  • Tools: R, SPSS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas
  • Statistical modeling

 

Publications & White Papers

  • McGrattan, K., Hammell, A., Zoeller, M., Klein, K., Delaware, E., McCormick, J., Weikle, E., Broderick, E., Ramel, S., Hofelich Mohr, A. (2023). Normal infant feeding characteristics throughout the first month of life. Journal of Perinatology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-023-01760-y
  • Hofelich Mohr, A. & Hammell, A. (2022). SAGE -Student Success: Data Literacy Module: A Few Basic Statistical Concepts.https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071899724
  • Wallen, K. E., Hammell, A. E., & Dentzman, K. E. (2021). Exploratory diary study of survey request frequency among research professionals. Completed as a project for WERA 1010: Improving Data Quality from Sample Surveys to foster Agricultural and Community Development in Rural America. SocArXiv.http://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/mrebz
  • Hammell, A. E., Helwig, N. E., Kaczkurkin, A. N., Sponheim, S. R., & Lissek, S. (2020). The temporal course of over-generalized conditioned threat expectancies in posttraumatic stress disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 124, 103513.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.103513
  • Vekaria, K. M., Hammell, A. E., Vincent, L., Smith, M., Rogers, T., Switzer, G. E., & Marsh, A. A. (2020). The role of prospection in altruistic bone marrow donation decisions. Health Psychology, 39, 316https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000819
  • Chapman, T., Fleming, K., Graham, L., Hammell, A., Lupini, M., Mack, I., & Tillmann, M. (2019). Environmental stewardship: Reducing food waste while improving food security.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/205551

 

Selected Presentations

  • Hammell, A., Wallen, K., Dentzman, K., & Dillman, D. (2022). Considering survey frequency & typology in the modern survey landscape. Poster presentation at the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR), Chicago, Illinois.
  • Hammell, A., Han, X. & Mortimer, J. (2022). Agency and career uncertainty in the time of COVID. Paper & oral presentation at the annual Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Dillman, D. A., Hammell, A., Dentzman, K., & Wallen, K. (2022). How the changing nature of surveys may be affecting survey climate and trust. Workshop “Survey Climate and Trust in Scientific Surveys Recent Developments and Controversial Issues” at the University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany.
  • Dentzman, K., Hammell, A., Wallen, K., & Dillman, D. (2022). Survey request frequency and willingness to respond: An exploratory diary study of research professionals. Presentation at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Westminster, Colorado.
  • Vandover, F. & Hammell, A. (2021). Learning in a pandemic and beyond: First year liberal arts student preferences and perspectives regarding online courses at a large public university in the United States. ICERI2021 Proceedings, 18-26. https://library.iated.org/publications/ICERI2021

 

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