Joseph NoonanPhD student

Joseph's research centers on using quantitative methods to examine political behavior, particularly how social environments influence individual attitudes and actions. He focuses on how political social norms and perceptions shape behavior across different contexts.

Before starting as a doctoral student at SU, Noonan worked for several years in research-adjacent roles across the public, private, and academic sectors. His positions included serving as an Associate Program Officer at International IDEA, where he contributed to the Global State of Democracy Indices, International IDEA’s measurement of democracy. Noonan also worked as an associate researcher on the Demscore project, specifically the Historical Data Archive (H-DATA) module, and contributed to the project "A complete dataset of roll-call votes in the Swedish parliament, 1925-1993," where he was responsible for developing data pipelines to transform 40,000 PDF image pages of roll-call votes into a dataset with over 4 million cases. Additionally, he has experience working as a survey analyst, both full-time and as a consultant.