ADMINISTRATION

Research Support Services Unit

The ICRC’s Research Support Services Unit provides technical guidance and assistance in research design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation to the Center’s research projects. The three scientists who comprise the Unit – Dr. Debra McCallum, who heads it, Dr. Kathleen Bolland and Dr. Alfred Bartolucci – have experience and expertise in a wide range of research methods and designs and data analysis, involving both laboratory and field research, and in using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
	Debra McCallum, PhD Head, ICRC Research Support Services Unit Director, Institute for Social Science Research Senior Research Social Scientist, Institute for Social Science Research Director, Capstone Poll, Institute for Social Science Research Dr. Debra McCallum, a Senior Research Social Scientist at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Alabama, has a long and successful record of research, including two funded grant projects currently under way. She earned her BA magna cum laude in Psychology at Furman University, then earned both the MA and PhD in Social Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She began her professional academic career as an assistant professor of psychology at UAB, serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department for three years. In 1989, she assumed the duties of a Research Social Scientist at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Alabama, and currently serves as both Interim Director and Senior Research Social Scientist at the Institute. She has dozens of peer-reviewed publications, technical reports and conference presentations to her credit, and maintains membership in several professional organizations in public opinion research and psychology. She is the head of the ICRC Research Support Services Unit.
	Kathleen A. Bolland, PhD Research Support Services (RSS) Unit member, UAB Injury Control Research Center Director, ICRC Oversight and Evaluation Unit B.S.W. Program Chair, School of Social Work Long before earning her PhD in social work at the University of Alabama in 1998, Dr. Bolland worked in research, testing, evaluation and assessment in Ohio, Kansas and Alabama. Dr. Bolland was the Assistant/Associate Research Educational Psychologist for the Evaluation and Assessment Laboratory at UA for 14 years prior to beginning an assistant professorship with the UA School of Social Work upon completion of her PhD. She has been the evaluator on several funded grants. Her extensive experience with research and evaluation makes her an extremely valuable resource for ICRC scientists, whom she assists as a Research Support Services Unit member.
	Alfred A. Bartolucci, PhD Research Support Services (RSS) Unit member, UAB Injury Control Research Center Senior Scientist, UAB ICRC Professor and former Chair, UAB Department of Biomathematics and Biostatistics Professor, UAB School of Nursing Professor, UAB Department of Psychology Dr. Alfred Bartolucci brings more than 30 years of expertise and experience with biostatistics to his role in the ICRC Research Support Services Unit. A former chair of UAB's Department of Biomathematics and Biostatistics, Dr. Bartolucci has published well over 100 articles in prestigious academic journals, as well as dozens of abstracts, paper presentations and consultancies. He was awarded the PhD in statistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975, after receiving a BA in Mathematics at the College of the Holy Cross and an MA in Mathematics from the Catholic University of America. He is a member of several professional and scholarly organizations, including the American Statistical Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Society for Clinical Trials. His areas of research interest include Clinical Trials, Survival Analysis, Bayesian Analysis, and Epidemiology.