He received his PhD in Psychology with a major in Quantitative Methods from Peabody College at Vanderbilt University (USA). He is a recipient of the Early Researcher Award of the Society for Community Research and Action / Division 27 of the American Psychological Association. He is also a founding partner and academic advisor of the Sustainable Societies Consulting Group (www.sscg.org), a social enterprise that offers research, evaluation and organizational development services to environmental, health and social organizations. Dr. Riemer has researched and published on survey design and taught multiple survey design related classes and applied workshops. He is teaching Survey Design and Hierarchical (Multi-Level) Linear Modelling.