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Hire Dr. Marcus M.

Canada

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Statistician, researcher, data analyst, and R expert. Experienced academic or market researcher and program evaluator.

Profile Summary

I am a published empirical psychologist and statistician. My academic research focused on visual attention to socially significant stimuli. I also have extensive experience in program evaluation where I led, designed, and participated in a wide range of mixed-method research projects which included surveys, literature review, case studies, administrative data analysis, and key-informant interviews to evaluate the economy and effectiveness of government programs in Canada. The research encompassed a wide range of policy areas with a particular focus on health and housing. I have led and participated in a range of market research projects including project management, in-person survey work, instrument design, statistical analysis, and reporting. I am a self-taught data scientist and have been coding in R for over 10 years.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Statistics
• ★ Psychology
• ★ Visual Perception
• ☆ Data Science
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Health Policy
• ☆ Housing & Housing Policy
• ☆ Autism Spectrum Disorders
• ☆ Research
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Survey Design & Methodology
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Formulation

Work Experience

Research Consultant

Insight Accelerated

March 2021 - Present

Research Associate

Prairie Research Associates Inc

April 2016 - May 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow

George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation

January 2016 - April 2016

Sessional faculty - Introduction to Psychology

The University of Winnipeg

January 2016 - April 2016

Instructional Designer

Government of Ontario

April 2015 - September 2015

Sessional Faculty - Inferential Statistics

McMaster University

April 2014 - September 2015

Education

PhD (Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour)

McMaster University

September 2010 - September 2015

BSc First Class Honours (Psychology)

University of Manitoba

2003 - 2010

College Certificate (Sound Engineering)

Mid-Ocean School of Media Arts

January 2001 - June 2001

BA (Classics)

University of Winnipeg

August 1993 - May 1997

Certifications

• Teaching and Learning Foundations Certificate

  McMaster University

  https://mi.mcmaster.ca/whoweworkwith/students/teaching-learning-certificates-of-completion-program/

  January 2015 - Present

• Instructional Skills Workshop

  Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) Network

  https://www.iswnetwork.ca/

  January 2011 - Present

• TESL Certification

  TESL Canada

  https://www.tesl.ca/certification/tesl-canada-professional-certification/35-tesl-canada-professional-certification.htmlTES

  January 1999 - January 2003

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Hofrichter, R., Siddiqui, H., Morrisey, M.N., Rutherford, M.D.(2021). Early Attention to Animacy: Change-Detection in 11-Month-Olds . Evolutionary Psychology. 19. (2).

Morrisey, M.N., Hofrichter, R., Rutherford, M.D.(2019). Human faces capture attention and attract first saccades without longer fixation . Visual Cognition. 27. (2). p. 158-170.

Morrisey, M.N., Reed, C.L., McIntosh, D.N., Rutherford, M.D.(2018). Brief Report: Attentional Cueing to Images of Social Interactions is Automatic for Neurotypical Individuals But Not Those with ASC . Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 48. (9). p. 3233-3243.

Jennifer A. Walsh and Mark D. Vida and Marcus Neil Morrisey and M.D. Rutherford(2015). Adults with autism spectrum disorder show evidence of figural aftereffects with male and female faces . Vision Research. 115. p. 104--112. Elsevier {BV}

Morrisey, M.N., Rutherford, M.D.(2013). Do hands attract attention? . Visual Cognition. 21. (5). p. 647-672.

CONFERENCE POSTER

M.D. Rutherford and Marcus Morrisey and Ruth Hofrichter(2018). Human faces capture attention and attract first saccades without longer dwell times . Journal of Vision. 18. (10). p. 169. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ({ARVO})

Marcus Morrisey and M.D. Rutherford(2015). Effects of social stimuli on covert attentional orienting and saccaddic eye-movements during visual search . Journal of Vision. 15. (12). p. 1266. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ({ARVO})

Morrisey, Marcus and Rutherford, M(2014). Attention capture and faces . Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). 68. (4).

(2013). A sex difference in auditory motion perception in 9-month-old infants. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).

(2013). Covert attentional orienting to implied human action in adults with autism. Psychonomics.

Morrisey, Marcus Neil and Rutherford, Mel D(2012). Do human hands capture attention?. Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS). 66. (4). p. 269--269.

REPORT

McQuaid, Robyn and Malik,, Aqsa and Moussouni, Kate and Baydack, Natalie and Stargardter, Matthew and Morrisey, Marcus(2017). Life in revovery from addiction in Canada: technical report . Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction20180104

DISSERTATION THESIS

(2015). Humans seeing humans .