Dr. Shelley Boulianne is the R. Klein Chair (Full Professor) in Communication Studies at Mount Royal University. She has worked in survey research since 1997. With nearly three decades of experience in survey research, Dr. Boulianne has managed dozens of cross-sectional surveys and longitudinal studies as part of her work in academia, government, and the private sector. 

Her academic career spans multiple countries and disciplines. 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. She has previously held faculty appointments in sociology at MacEwan University, in politics at Université Catholique de Lille, and in Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. She has also completed research fellowships at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Germany and the Digital Democracy Center at the University of Southern Denmark. 

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 used random-digit dialling. These surveys were about digital media, civic and political participation, political attitudes, climate change, and environmental policies. 

This research has been funded by $2 million in competitive grants and awards over the past ten years.  

She has published in leading journals, including 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.