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Chris Thorn

Christopher A. Thorn, Ph.D. Director, Center for Data Quality and Systems Innovation 1025 W. Johnson St., Room 1161E Madison, WI 53706 Direct: (608)263-2709 Email: cathorn@wisc.edu
Curriculum Vita	I lead the Center for Data Quality and Systems Innovation. We focus on issues of measurement, data systems, data quality, and process redesign. We are a multidisciplinary team works to describe and solve social and technical problems in this complex policy space. I began doing education research with John Witte of the Political Science department here at UW-Madison in 1991. I managed the Milwaukee Parental Choice Voucher Study for him for five years. During that time, I also completed my Doctor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. My dissertation and post-doc work was on private-private and public-private cooperation in R&D. The particular focus of the project was on cooperation efforts between traditionally antagonistic partners. The theoretical framework for this project was based on theories of complex systems and was an attempt to identify successful outcomes from occurrences of what the German Sociologist Renate Mayntz calls "antagonistic cooperation." When not doing something with socio-technical systems, I am mostly doing things with my kids. I am on the board of and the webmaster for the Wisconsin Children's Choir. I am also scoutmaster for Troop 16 here in Madison.

Christopher A. Thorn, Ph.D.

Director, Center for Data Quality and Systems Innovation

1025 W. Johnson St., Room 1161E
Madison, WI 53706
Direct: (608)263-2709
Email: cathorn@wisc.edu

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I lead the Center for Data Quality and Systems Innovation. We focus on issues of measurement, data systems, data quality, and process redesign. We are a multidisciplinary team works to describe and solve social and technical problems in this complex policy space.

I began doing education research with John Witte of the Political Science department here at UW-Madison in 1991. I managed the Milwaukee Parental Choice Voucher Study for him for five years.

During that time, I also completed my Doctor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. My dissertation and post-doc work was on private-private and public-private cooperation in R&D. The particular focus of the project was on cooperation efforts between traditionally antagonistic partners. The theoretical framework for this project was based on theories of complex systems and was an attempt to identify successful outcomes from occurrences of what the German Sociologist Renate Mayntz calls "antagonistic cooperation."

When not doing something with socio-technical systems, I am mostly doing things with my kids. I am on the board of and the webmaster for the Wisconsin Children's Choir. I am also scoutmaster for Troop 16 here in Madison.

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