Methods for Cross-Cultural Research is an online 2.5 hour short-course focused on designing and implementing social science research cross-culturally, with a particular emphasis on collecting interview data. In the face of increasing globalization, concerns for external validity, and the importance of capturing the diversity of human experience, there is a need to consider how to implement research cross-culturally. In this course, participants will consider different definitions of culture, how research is itself a cultural practice, what perspectives and analytical approaches can be employed in cross-cultural research, as well as best practices in designing and implementing cross-cultural research.

The presenter, Allegra J. Midgette, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Allegra has conducted studies examining Chinese and South Korean children’s and families’ moral reasoning regarding the fairness of the gendered division of labor, Chinese and American children’s and adolescents’ social and moral transgressions and strategies for self-correction, and Korean adolescents’ reasoning about social conventions.

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This session will discuss navigating NIH funding opportunity announcements. Topics covered include: understanding RFAs, PAs, and NOSIs; navigating the NIH Guide and RePORTER; and scanning an announcement for clues to see if it’s right for you.

The NC State Research Development Office invites everyone to the NIH @ NC State Fall Grantsmanship Series. These seminars will acquaint you with the basics of NIH. Registration is required to receive an appointment with zoom details.

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The REDCap Hands-On Form Building Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary. This session will be a click along hands-on/lecture/demo.

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

Since 2008, the UNC International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology chapter has sponsored the Harry Guess Memorial Lecture. This lecture series was conceived of by UNC students to honor the late Harry Guess, MD, PhD, a man who built the pharmacoepidemiology program at UNC with outstanding dedication to teaching and mentoring.

This year's lecture will center on drug safety in pregnancy; the challenges and solutions in the Modern Era of Pharmacoepidemiology.

Presenter: Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, MD, DrPH
Professor, Epidemiology
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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