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The Team

Our Background in Qualitative Research and Mixed Methods Research

We wanted that bright young programmer mostly responsible for the EthnoNotes architecture. We had a great working history together and he’d learned a great deal in his work as we were building the infrastructure of the company. Got him! More money, financial, legal, marketing, branding consultants—Got them! Great office space, assistant programmers, designers, SEO experts—Got them too!


Eli Lieber, PH.D., Co-Founder and President


Dr. Lieber has spent the last decade focused on developing and implementing strategies and solutions for effectively and efficiently conducting integrated (mixed methods) research. Initially trained as a quantitative psychologist specializing in social-cognitive development and measurement, his post-doctoral training and subsequent work have included teaming with colleagues from a wide variety of other social science disciplines. The results of this experience—expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods—have proven to be the ideal preparation for his present focus on integrated methods and research design. In particular he has earned a sterling reputation for developing creative strategies to maximize the use of technology in social science research—his contributions to the development of Dedoose being the primary outcome


Dr. Lieber’s professional research interests center on socio-cultural impacts on disease transmission and prevention, Asian and Asian immigrant family experiences, and children with Type 1 diabetes and their families. Many of these interests have grown from his nearly five years of work in Taiwan and his continued collaboration with investigators in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China in the study of social cognition, social cognitive development, parenting styles and practices, and the general adaptation of families to the challenges of immigration and a modernizing world. He has published numerous articles based on this research and the development and application of integrated methods.


Dr. Lieber received his B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Northridge (1988) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1996). He currently holds the position of Associate Research Psychologist and Co-Director of the Fieldwork and Qualitative Data Research Laboratory, Semel Institute, Center for Culture and Health, UCLA.


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Thomas S. Weisner, PH.D., Co-Founder


Dr. Weisner’s research includes studies in Kenya, Hawaii, and the U.S. He has studied sibling caretaking of children, families with children with disabilities, countercultural families and children, working poor families and children, and early literacy in Head Start programs and families, among other studies. He is the co-author of Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children (2007) (with Greg Duncan and Aletha Huston); co-editor of Making it work: Low-wage employment, family life and child development (with Hiro Yoshikawa & Edward Lowe), (2006); editor of Discovering successful pathways in children's development: New methods in the study of childhood and family life(2005); and co-editor of African families and the crisis of social change (with Candice Bradley and Phil Kilbride) (1997). In addition, he has published some 150 research papers, chapters, and reviews.


Dr. Weisner is an internationally-recognized leader in the systematic application of mixed methods in the social sciences. His research interests are in culture and human development, medical, psychological and cultural studies of families and children at risk, mixed methods research, and evidence-based policy studies. Working for decades with multi-disciplinary groups, Dr. Weisner has made major contributions to the development of methods for the study of families and children. He has developed the Ecocultural Family Interview for understanding the everyday routine of family life – a mixed methods approach


Dr. Weisner received his B.A. in Anthropology from Reed College (1965) and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1973). He is currently Professor of Anthropology, Departments of Psychiatry (Semel Institute, Center for Culture and Health), and Anthropology, at UCLA.


Jason Taylor, Director of Product Development


Jason is a Los Angeles based Rich Internet Application Architect that led the product development for the original EthnoNotes web application and is now part of the official team here at Dedoose. With more than 15 years of experience in developing distributed computing applications, Jason has worked on all aspects and levels of programming from hardware robotics systems leading the Beach Cities Robotics team to their National Victory in the F.I.R.S.T competition in 2001 to enterprise websites including Gerber.com, JuicyJuice.com, PurinaOne.com, and many more.


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