Dissertation, Thesis
& Research Coaching
- for law enforcement professionals -
Our Services
Research Coaching & Review
What we do
Ensuring law enforcement professionals maximize the speed, quality, and impact of their research by offering personalized one-on-one coaching and/or editing services for dissertations, thesis, research studies, and peer reviewed publications.
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How we do it
By offering a tailored approach designed to meet your specific needs -- whether that's a simple edit of a single section of your paper, a final review of a complete dissertation, or a conversation to figure out what isn't working in your project and plan a new way forward.
Kinds of assistance
- Refining research questions
- Planning the study
- Data acquisition
- Data cleaning
- Statistical strategy & analysis
- Code review
- Results, graphics, and tables
- Conclusions, limitations, & next steps
- Writing organization, flow, and substance
- Defense preparation & presentation
- Journal publication submissions & review responses
Topics of assistance
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Disciplines: Criminology, Sociology, Psychology​
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Methods: Administrative data, surveys, randomized trials, longitudinal & panel designs, mixed methods, relational tables, cost-benefit, policy analysis ​
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Statistics: OLS regression, Logistic regression, Count outcomes, Modeling time, Hierarchical modeling, Scale creation, Factoring, Missing data​
About Dave
Dr. David Bierie is a dedicated professional with a unique blend of academic and applied experience in policing, courts, and corrections. He is passionate about supporting law enforcement professionals in their academic and professional endeavors.
Academia
Dr. Bierie's research has culminated in more than 40 articles published in peer reviewed journals, and hundreds of presentations to academic, law enforcement, and policymaking audiences. His work has been cited by scholars in six languages across three continents, accumulated nearly 2,000 citations in published research, and referenced in court and congressional testimony. ​​​
Dave has taught courses at the university level for more than 20 years, including Psychology, Police Administration, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Research Methods, & The Psychology of Criminal Conduct.
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Dr. Bierie has served on several federal working groups and statistical boards, including six years on the Research Advisory Committee of the IACP. He has won more than a dozen awards for his contributions to investigations, operations, and policy. ​​​
Law Enforcement
Dave entered law enforcement more than 20 years ago, first as a diversion coordinator for youth, then expanding to gang interventions, juvenile detention, prison transports, court security, prison inspections, intensively supervised probation, and teaching in jails. Throughout his career, he has accumulated experience in city, county, state, & federal agencies working on corrections, policing, courts, resource allocation, evaluation, and policy making.
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Dr. Bierie has consulted on numerous investigations, created new investigative techniques, designed domestic and international operations, crafted performance metrics, built data architecture and visual analytic dashboarding systems, impacted legislation. And, most importantly, persistently engaged with and listened to law enforcement professionals in order to find and solve problems that matter to them. ​​
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue
that counts.”
Winston Churchill