Climate Change Research

Dr. Shelley Boulianne is an Associate Professor in sociology at MacEwan University. She has worked in survey research since 1997. She has managed dozens of cross-sectional surveys and several longitudinal studies as part of her work in academia, government, and the private sector.

Prior to completing her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007), she was a project director at the University of Wisconsin Survey Center where she managed several national and longitudinal surveys.

Over the past ten years, Dr. Boulianne designed and executed a seven-wave survey of Edmontonians and four student surveys on digital media use. She also oversaw survey administration contracts for six public opinion surveys that utilized random digit dialing. These surveys were about digital media, civic and political participation, political attitudes, climate change, and environmental policies. This research has been funded through $1.5 million in grants and awards over the past ten years.

She has published in journals, such as Information, Communication, & Society, New Media & Society, Political Communication, Social Science Computer Review, Political Studies, and Communication Research. Her papers have received Best Paper awards from the American Sociological Association's section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology as well as the American Political Science Association's section on Information Technology and Politics.