Bella Struminskaya is Associate Professor at the Department of Methodology & Statistics, where she coordinates the Research Master Methodology and Statistics for Behavioural, Biomedical, and Social Sciences (MSBBSS).
Her research interests include survey methodology, smartphone surveys, smartphone sensors & passive data collection using mobile devices, data donation, online and mixed-mode surveys, nonresponse and measurement errors in surveys, panel effects, and paradata.
In her research supported by the Dutch Research Council NWO Vidi grant, she is studying privacy concerns in app-based data collection and ways to provide insights to research participants to decrease biases without jeopardizing measurement quality and applying these results in practice developing a smartphone app for social science data collection. In another project funded by NWO, she is investigating the use of LLMs for survey research. In her research on new technologies in surveys, Bella collaborates with Statistics Netherlands.
Bella is a board member of the German Society for Online Research and programme chair of the General Online Research Conference (GOR). She is a member of the Methods Board of the European Social Survey, management board member and country team lead for the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE ERIC), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Statistics Sweden, and a member of the Quality Assurance Board of the GESIS Panel, Robert Koch Institute's Panel “Health in Germany”, and of the Data Collection Committee of ODISSEI (Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations).
Bella chairs the Online Education Subcommittee of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and is an associate editor of the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Survey Research Methods and a guest editor of Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Science Computer Review, and the Journal of Royal Statistical Society Series A.
Team members: see Website of the Data Quality Research Group
Thijs Carriere (PhD student), Daniëlle Remmerswaal (PhD student), Danielle McCool (Postdoc), Charlotte Müller (Junior Researcher), Niek de Schipper (Research Engineer), Fabienne Krämer (PhD student), Camilla Salvatore (assistant professor), Dion van Harten (student assistant).
Former team members: Jonathan Koop (student assistant), Maas van Steenbergen (student assistant), Max van der Velde (student assistant), Kirsten van Kessel (strudent assistant), Celine Henneveld (student assistant).
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