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Brady Thomas West, a research professor with the Survey Research Center and a faculty associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, was appointed a collegiate research professorship and honored among 32 University of Michigan award recipients celebrated at the Faculty Awards Celebration yesterday.

West is also Research Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health and a LEO adjunct lecturer in the School of Information.

The Collegiate Research Professorship award honors exceptional scholarly achievement and impact on advancing knowledge in science, engineering, health, education, the arts, the humanities or other academic field of study. Research professors with at least a 60% appointment are eligible.

West is an internationally recognized survey methodologist whose innovations improve the accuracy of data used in policymaking. He earned a B.S. (2001), M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2011) from U-M, joining the faculty in 2011. His research examines how to collect reliable survey data and correct deficiencies in existing data. He pioneered methods distinguishing interviewers’ effects on respondent recruitment from their effects on survey answers and developed techniques to reduce bias in web-based surveys. He has published 119 peer-reviewed papers in statistics and survey methodology and 128 in applied and collaborative research. His books, “Linear Mixed Models” and “Applied Survey Data Analysis,” are widely used references. In 2023, he developed a checklist for evaluating complex survey analyses. West supports major longitudinal studies, mentors students and was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022.

Read more about this recognition and the awardees in The Record.