UNC Research

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) invites all members of the research community to the Spring 2025 edition of OVCR Office Hours, an open forum on research operations and administration.

This 6-hour course will be held online only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded. This course is the second in a two-part scale development course series on scale development. Part one of the series focused on the general theories and methods used in the scale development process. This second portion focuses on the analytic ... Read more

This 2-day course (2/3/25 and 2/5/25) will teach participants how to use the programming language Julia to load, clean, plot, and analyze social-science data. Julia is a newer programming language with a focus on high-performance scientific computing, and allows efficient manipulation of large datasets. The course will cover the basics of loading tabular data; cleaning, ... Read more

This 3-hour course will be offered online only. Attendance is required – this course will not be recorded. Descriptions in textbooks about classic approaches to coding qualitative data rarely coincide perfectly with the demands imposed by time and resources in the real world of practice. This short course reviews three approaches to coding qualitative data. ... Read more

This course will cover topics beyond the scope of the Introductory to Qualtrics short course. We will take a deeper dive into Survey Flow features including embedded data, customizing the End of Survey experience, Screen Out Management, and implementing randomization. We will explore methods of importing embedded data into your survey, sending information from one ... Read more

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) invites all members of the research community to a special session of OVCR Office Hours, an open forum on research operations and administration. What to expect for this session: Q&A: There will be a dedicated Q&A session for participants to ask questions, and questions should be ... Read more

Jack DeWaard will present as part of the Carolina Population Center’s 2024-2025 Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series. Topic: TBD Jack DeWaard is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and is on the faculty of the Minnesota Population Center.

To provide an update on the dynamic federal funding landscape, the OVCR leadership team is hosting an OVCR Office Hours on Wednesday, February 12 at 12 p.m. Speakers for this live Zoom update include: Vice Chancellor Penny Gordon-Larsen Senior Associate Vice Chancellor Andy Johns Director of the Office of Federal Affairs Kelly Dockham Strategic Research ... Read more

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. Attendance is required as it will not be recorded. Although graduate school teaches you many things, many Ph.D. students complete their dissertations having never been fully trained in academic publishing. How does academic publishing actually work? Where should you publish your research? How do you actually get ... Read more

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom only. Course schedule is 10:00am – 4:00pm, with a 1 hour lunch and (2) 10 minute breaks (1 in morning and 1 in afternoon). Attendance is required as it will not be recorded. We all know about surveys, focus groups, and qualitative interviews. These tried and true methods ... Read more

This is a hybrid event. There are separate registration buttons for in-person and Zoom attendance. Hosted by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, this workshop is an opportunity ... Read more

To provide an update on the dynamic federal research funding landscape, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) invites all members of the research community to a special ... Read more

Students will learn to interpret the results of meta-analysis, including evidence of heterogeneity, assess included studies for risk of bias, evaluate risk of reporting biases (i.e., selective non-reporting of studies and results), rate confidence in a body of evidence using GRADE, and report results following the PRISMA guidelines.