Independent social science
I help advocacy organizations, research institutes, and public agencies answer hard questions about people and institutions — and understand what the answers mean.
The methods and judgment of a Yale-trained sociologist, delivered at a speed and cost that under-resourced organizations can actually afford.
One question, rigorously answered.
You have a question you need a defensible answer to — what the research says, what the data shows, whether a claim holds. I synthesize the relevant literature and evidence into a tight, readable memo plus a briefing call.
Original research, start to finish.
When you need more than a synthesis — a survey designed and analyzed, a body of documents or discourse coded, a population understood, an evaluation that holds up to scrutiny. I design it, do it, and write it up.
Turn a question into a dataset.
You need data that doesn’t exist in clean form yet — a corpus of documents, a record of what’s being said across the web, a structured version of scattered public information. I build it; you own it. Scoped to public and permissible sources.
Your research department, on retainer.
For organizations with recurring questions and no in-house research capacity. I become the person you bring hard questions to — a standing source of analysis, interpretation, and second opinions, without the cost of a hire.
I build datasets to spec — corpora, web scrapes, and harmonized sources, structured and documented for analysis. A few I’ve built for my own research, as a sense of the range:
2,500+ political essays scraped, parsed, and structured for text analysis across the contemporary national-conservative movement.
A five-language corpus of online far-right encyclopedic content, structured for cross-language comparison.
Analysis-ready, harmonized datasets and tooling across major public surveys (GSS, ANES, ISSP, WVS, Census/ACS).
I hold a PhD in sociology from Yale, where I specialized in computational and mixed methods and in the politics of the environment, religion, and national identity. My research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals across sociology and environmental politics.
Most organizations doing important work can’t afford a research team, so they either guess or pay an agency far too much for far too little. Bryant Social Research closes that gap: think-tank-quality research, delivered by one accountable person, at a price the public-interest sector can meet.
Tell me the question you’re sitting with. I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right person to answer it.
Prefer email? hello@bryantsocialresearch.com