Jessica Bishop-Royse, PhD MS

Jessica Bishop-Royse is the Senior Research Methodologist in the Social Science Research Center at DePaul University. Her current projects an analysis of violent crime in 100 US cities during the period 2009-2012 and an examination into the predictors of socioeconomic mobility among American high school students.

She joined DePaul after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the Florida State University College of Medicine. While there, she managed a large federally funded R01 AHRQ grant. She has experience with survey research, multi-level analyses, survival analyses, and multivariate regression. Her areas of interest include: research methods, statistics, health disparities, and urban studies. She often finds herself navigating the fields of sociology, demography, epidemiology, medicine, public health, education and policy.

Prior to graduating from Florida State University, she was recognized for excellence in the classroom with departmental and university teaching awards.

Jessica's non-work interests and hobbies include weightlifting, soccer, photography, writing, hiking, food, and travel.