Durand Claire
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Montreal
Canada
Biography
Durand Claire is a Full Professor PhD: Occupational Psychology, University of Montreal, 1993 Contact : T elephone 514-343-7447 Pav. PAV.M.CARON-L.GROULX-3200 JB \ bur. C5098 at University of Montreal, Department of Sociology, Canada.
Research Interest
Claire Durand is a full professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université de Montréal. After a career in the field of surveys, then a PhD in occupational psychology, she focused her research on quantitative methods and survey methodology, including electoral polls. She analyzed surveys conducted during major election campaigns in Quebec, Canada, France, the United States and the United Kingdom. She also examined the evolution of support for Quebec sovereignty and its determinants and compared Quebec and Scotland in this regard. Since 1998, she has also conducted four studies on the working conditions of university professors. His recent research has also focused on the errors of polls and the role of polls in society. It has recently started new research on socio-economic inequalities, particularly related to Aboriginal people. Areas of expertise: Polling method, Quantitative methodology, Socio-economic inequalities and methodology, Indigenous.
Publications
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2016 Durand, C. and André Blais (2016) "The survey", in B. Gauthier and I. Bourgeois, Social Research; from issue to data collection, sixth revised edition, Sillery, Quebec. Presses of the University of Quebec, p. 455-501.
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2016 Durand, C. and A. Blais (2016) "Measurement", in B. Gauthier and I. Bourgeois, Social Research; from problematic to data collection, sixth revised edition, Quebec, Presses de l'Université du Québec, p. 223-248.
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2016 Durand, C. (2016) Surveys and Society, in C. Wolf, D. Joye, TW Smith and YC Fu (editors), The SAGE Handbook of Survey Methodology, p. 57-66.
