Welcome to the Institute for Social Science Research
by Linda C. Lederman Ph.D.
Director
As Director of the ISSR, and on behalf of our Executive Director, Dean Alan Artibise, and all of our talented and dedicated research and service professionals, let me welcome you to our web site.
In my role as director of the ISSR, I seek to advance the ISSR in achieving its mission to serve the needs of the University community and citizens of Arizona, the nation, and the global community by providing research-based support for trans-disciplinary collaboration among University departments and schools; University researchers and external agencies and organizations; and a home for University centers emerging from such collaborations.
The Institute has three core research service areas: the Survey Research and Analysis Group, Research Technology Services, and Geographic Information System Services. Each is staffed by highly trained and experienced research professionals. The Institute is the home of state of the art research facilities for the social sciences. It is poised to become the leading Institute in the nation for the support of funded research projects while at the same time welcoming projects from community groups and organizations desiring professional research assistance. Please listen to Dean Artibise’s podcast in which he describes the Institute and its offerings.
We at the ISSR look forward to talking with you about your research needs and our ability to provide you with the research services that help you achieve your goals. We seek to involve faculty from across the University and other Institutions of Higher Education as Fellows who advise the growth and direction of the Institute’s research services. If you would like to see some examples of research conducted through the ISSR, you can access brief reports of recent projects under Research Briefs. So, welcome to the ISSR.
Linda C. Lederman
Linda Costigan Lederman, Ph.D. is Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Director of the ISSR, and professor of communication in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, where she specializes in health communication, with an emphasis on alcohol use, abuse and addiction. Her recent research has been funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the U.S. Department of Justice, the N.J. Consortium, totaling more than $7.5 million. She is the author of thirteen books, sixty five journal articles, including the entry on Alcohol Abuse and College Students in the Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, (Macmillan, 2001). Her most recent books are Changing the Culture of College Drinking (Hampton Press, 2005, with Lea Stewart) and Voices of Recovery, a collection of stories by people who began their recovery from alcoholism while undergraduates at Rutgers. Dr. Lederman also recently published an edited book of exemplary research in health communication, Readings in Health Communication (2007).