About the Social Science Data Library
Staff SSDL Services Advisory Committee Contact Information
Staff
David Elesh, Director
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David Ford, Assistant Director
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Mona Al-Amin, Data Specialist
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Maya Silva, Data Specialist
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Staff SSDL Services Advisory Committee Contact Information
David Elesh, Director
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David Ford, Assistant Director
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Mona Al-Amin, Data Specialist
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Maya Silva, Data Specialist
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David Elesh is a faculty member in sociology and Director of the Social Science Data Library. An urban sociologist, he co-authored a book (written with Adams and Bartelt) about the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area's increasing diversity and inequality. His most recently published work examined the occupational, gender, and age cohort consequences of industrial change during the 1980s. Dr. Elesh is currently writing a book on the sources of the political fragmentation in metropolitan areas and, with Adams, Bartelt, and others, a book on the Philadelphia metropolitan area since 1990. 
David Ford became the Assistant Director of the Social Science Data Library in 2003. Mr. Ford has lead the data library’s transition from a secondary data provider service to a comprehensive research consulting service supporting a wide variety of methods related to data collection, data analysis, results presentation and data archival. In addition to training graduate student data specialists and managing Temple’s research consulting service, he has initiated a variety of programs to support research methods at Temple, including seminars focusing on specific methods (qualitative data analysis software, data collection methods, and statistical software packages such as SAS), seminars about specialized data sets (Hospital admissions data, Philadelphia geographic and administrative data, and financial data from WRDS), as well as organizing advanced research methods discussion groups for both quantitative and qualitative researchers. Mr. Ford, who plays jazz trumpet in his spare time, spent twelve years as a public policy consultant before coming to the SSDL. 
Mona Al-Amin is a doctoral candidate in the Business Administration program, with concentration in Risk, Insurance and Health Care Management. She is currently working on her dissertation, which utilizes theories in organizational behavior to explain the variation in quality of care between different health care organizations. Before joining the Ph.D. program at Temple University, she completed a Masters degree in Public Health, with concentration in Health Care Management and Policy and a bachelor’s degree in Medical Laboratory Technology. She supports SPSS, STATA, and AMOS, and can provide assistance with statistical techniques such as factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Mona also supports qualitative data analysis software such as Atlas.ti and CATPAC. 
Maya Silva is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Criminal Justice. She is currently working on her dissertation prospectus, which focuses on desistance from crime. Previously, Maya has worked as the teaching assistant for two experiential learning courses and the research assistant on a mixed-methods study about the affects of urban development on Philadelphia neighborhoods. She can provide assistance to both qualitative and quantitative researchers and supports software packages that include SPSS, ArcView, CrimeStat, GeoDa, HLM and NVivo. She also has experience conducting in-depth interviews, participant observations and ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research.