Don Haynes holds a doctorate from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His scholarly interests include survey research, policy analysis and environmental and natural resource policy. He is the author of several book chapters and a number of scholarly articles dealing with technology transfer, growth management and public opinion, and he is also the author of numerous monographs on public opinion.

Haynes has conducted survey research for such diverse organizations as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the Department of Defense; the U.S. Navy; the Centers for Disease Control; the Maryland Departments of the Environment, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Planning, Human Resources and Health and Mental Hygiene; the Maryland Hospital Association, the Epilepsy Foundation; and the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, among others. Haynes is trained as a focus group moderator and has conducted groups for a number of state and nonprofit groups. He teaches in the center’s Managing for Results program and also teaches research methods, policy analysis, program evaluation and environmental and natural resource policy. Haynes is the center’s director of survey research and an associate professor in the UB School of Public Affairs.