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Dr. Robert Arnold

Associate Professor 
Ph.D., McMaster 1988
Quantitative Methods, Family, Stratification, Program Evaluation.

 

 

 

  
Dr. Arnold had worked for 13 years in applied research before becoming a university teacher. Products of his prior experience included four book length manuscripts, dealing with poverty in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, contraceptive use in low income areas, job-seeking and job-finding among young welfare recipients, and the experience of separated parents over the first 18 months of separation. In applied settings he was much involved in program evaluation , and so was very pleased, in 1990, to become a member of the team evaluating Better Beginnings, Better Futures, a multi-site demonstration program aimed at improving the life chances of children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. He remains involved with the team, which is now following up children as they finish their formal education and enter the workforce.

He has taught methods and statistics from the year he received his Ph.D. to the present, in courses from the undergraduate to the doctoral level. He has taught introductory sociology (several times), social psychology, and sociology of the contemporary family, which he has offered at Windsor for the past six years. 
 
One reason he chose to specialize in methodology is that it enables collaboration in work in many fields. He has co-authored academic papers in criminology and sociology of health as well as others in program evaluation. He consults regularly with students and faculty who have methodological questions. Currently he is working on a textbook in social statistics.
 
For 2010-11 he is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Windsor’s M.A. in Social Data Analysis (MASDA).
 
Room: 261 CHS  ♦  519-253-3000 Ext. 3980  ♦  arnoldr@uwindsor.ca