Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and serves as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Graeme uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to improve social science research. He works primarily in Nigeria, often in partnership with government, civil society, or international organizations. His work is published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. His book Research Design in the Social Sciences was published in 2023 by Princeton University Press and was awarded the best book prize by the American Political Science Association Experiments Section. His second book, on community policing, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press Studies in Comparative Politics. He is the recipient of several awards including the Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science and the Society for Political Methodology best statistical software award.
Graeme Blair is an associate professor of political science at UCLA and serves as Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). Graeme uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and how to improve social science research. He works primarily in Nigeria, often in partnership with government, civil society, or international organizations. His work is published in journals including Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Political Analysis. His book Research Design in the Social Sciences was published in…