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Limor Peer, PhD is Associate Director for Research and Strategic Initiatives at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) at Yale University.

At ISPS, she led the creation of a specialized research data archive (the ISPS Data Archive), a digital repository for research produced by scholars affiliated with ISPS with a focus on experimental design and methods. She is responsible for establishing Archive policies and for designing a model workflow for sharing and preserving research data that implements the ideals of scientific reproducibility and transparency, YARD, the Yale Application for Research Data.

At Yale, she is involved in campus-wide efforts relating to research data management, sharing, and preservation, and has spearheaded policy development on these issues. She served as a Research and Data Specialist at the Office of the Provost from 2016-2018. She is an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at the Yale Law School.

Peer co-founded the CURE (Curation for Reproducibility) Consortium of social science data archives at Yale, Cornell, and the University of North Carolina, promoting practices that facilitate the digital preservation of the evidence base necessary for future understanding, evaluation, and reproducibility of scientific claims. Peer’s work has been funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Peer is co-chair of the CURE-FAIR working group at the Research Data Alliance and the Practices working group of the ACM’s Emerging Interest Group on Reproducibility and Replicability. She sits on the board of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and serves on a number of advisory and task force groups working on data curation and research transparency.

Prior to joining ISPS, Peer was Research Director at Northwestern University’s Media Management Center and Readership Institute, focusing on applied research primarily in the areas of media audience, content, and management strategy. At Northwestern University, she was also Associate Professor (clinical) at the Medill School of Journalism and held a courtesy appointment in the Department of Communication Studies. Peer’s communication scholarship explores the media’s role in democracy and public opinion. She has taught courses on communication theory, public opinion, media and society, the future of the media, and statistics for journalists.

Peer received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Political Science from Tel-Aviv University.

GRANTS & AWARDS

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2019-2022); PI on project, “Implementing a Data Curation for Reproducibility (Data CuRe) Training Program.”

The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program (2017-2018); Co-PI on project, “Data Curation for Reproducibility (Data CuRe) Training Program Planning.”

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation (2008); Co-PI on research project, “A Youth Online News Engagement Project.”

The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education (2007);  Co-PI on research project, “Online News Choices: Assessing the Existence and Character of a Gap between Journalists and Citizens.”

Knight Foundation (2006); Lead researcher on a research project to study local television news experiences (awarded to the Medill School at Northwestern University).

Ford Foundation (1998); Lead researcher (awarded to the Garrett-Medill Center for Religion and the News Media).

Northwestern University, School of Speech (1994); Dissertation Award

Northwestern University, Institute for Modern Communications (1993); Research grant to investigate the public’s perception of polls in connection with the Chicago Area Survey Project and Northwestern University Survey Laboratory.