Please join the Center for Social Policy and the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies as we welcome Professor Deborah Stone “Interpreting Numbers: Qualitative Analysis of Quantitative Data” Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 3:30PM-5:00PM University of Massachusetts Boston Location TBD 100 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA Professor Deborah Stone is Lecturer in Public Policy at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. A specialist in health and social policy, Professor Stone is the author of numerous articles and four books. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, originally published in 1988, won the American Political Science Association’s Wildavsky Award for an Enduring Contribution to Policy Studies and has been translated into five languages. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and has written for The American Prospect, Nation, New Republic, Boston Review, and salon.com. Additionally, she served as a consultant to the Social Security Administration, the Institute of Medicine, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Human Genome Project. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. She has taught politics and public policy at Duke University, MIT, and Brandeis University, where she held the Pokross Chair in Law and Social Policy until 1999, as well as visiting professorships at Aarhus University in Denmark, Yale University, Tulane University, and University of Bremen, Germany. Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Policy and the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs as part of their Spring 2015 Research Seminar Series. No Registration Needed. For information, visit our homepage at www.umb.edu/csp Please visit www.ada.umb.edu prior to the event date if you require disability-related accommodations (including dietary accommodations). For directions to campus, please visit http://www.umb.edu/the_university/getting_here.