Greetings.

Me

Me? I’m a Senior Quantitative UX Research Scientist at Google. I do things like: experimental and quasi-experimental design; survey design; behavioral and predictive modeling.

Formerly:

• People Research Scientist at Meta, focusing on understanding, quantifying, and mitigating negative effects of harmful content.
• Postdoctoral research at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh.
• I was an elementary school teaching in New York City public schools in a past life.

I completed my Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University in 2019.

Check out my CV or my professional resume

Check out my various projects using R to analyze and visualize data from sundry sources.

Analytic toolkit: Quasi/experimental design, computational methods, surveys, network analysis, NLP

Programming: R, Python, SQL

Check out some of my academic pubs:

Morel, R. P. (2021). Strange Frame Fellows: The Evolution of Discursive Framing in the Opt-Out Testing Movement. Teachers College Record, 123(5), 1-32. [link.]

Morel, R. P., Coburn, C., Catterson, A. K., & Higgs, J. (2019). The Multiple Meanings of Scale: Implications for Researchers and Practitioners. Educational Researcher, 48(6), 369–377. [link.]

Morel, R. P., & Coburn, C. (2019). Access, Activation, and Influence: How Brokers Mediate Social Capital Among Professional Development Providers. American Educational Research Journal, 56(2), 247–288. [link.]