Matthew Emery is a Research Coordinator for the Center for Applied Research and Learning at IFES. In his position, Matthew works on the development of public opinion surveys and monitoring and evaluation programs. Work in these areas have allowed him to further his work on using technology methods for gathering public opinion data and examining cross-national trends in democratization. Recently, Matthew presented research based off IFES’s national public opinion surveys in Ukraine at the 2015 World Association of Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) conference in Buenos Aires examining the impacts of social media use on other forms of civic participation in Ukraine since 2010.