Mon. 26 Sep, 2022 - Sun. 2 Oct, 2022
Mon. 26 Sep, 2022
Odum Institute: Integrated mixed methods
Mon. 26 Sep, 2022 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Integrated mixed methods: bridging qualitative and quantitative methods and results
This course will take place over three mornings (9/26/22, 9/28/22, and 9/30/22), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
Integrated mixed methods are used to answer questions that necessitate more than one method to achieve a holistic understanding. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches can enhance conversations about theory, practice, and/or policy. This demanding paradigm requires knowledge, skill, and expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as the art of intentionally integrating the approaches to and findings from each mode of inquiry. This course focuses on strategies, tips, and best practices to accomplish integration in accessible and effective ways, including:
- Rationales to guide decision-making related to study design and execution
- Conceptual, theoretical, and/or logic models as roadmaps to set the stage for and guide integration
- Analytic strategies that advance frameworks and dynamic processes of connecting, building, merging, embedding, and bridging
Instructor: Alison B. Hamilton, PhD, MPH
Alison B. Hamilton, PhD, MPH, a VA Research Career Scientist and Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, received her PhD in medical and psychological anthropology from UCLA in 2002, and her MPH in Community Health Sciences from UCLA in 2009. Hamilton is the Director of the VA-funded EMPOWER (Enhancing Mental and Physical Health of Women through Engagement and Retention) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), focused on improving women Veterans’ health and health care through implementation science. She is the Chief Officer of Implementation & Policy at the VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, specializing in women Veterans’ health, mental health services research, and implementation science.
She is also PI of a large-scale NIH study of enhancing organizational and individual readiness to address cardiovascular risk among individuals living with HIV. She was a fellow in the inaugural cohort of the NIMH/VA Implementation Research Institute and she serves as an Associate Editor for Implementation Science Communications (BMC) and on the editorial boards of Implementation Science (BMC), Women’s Health Issues (Elsevier), and Implementation Research and Practice (Sage).
Hamilton has been a consultant with ResearchTalk for over 20 years, providing direct support to clients as well as serving as faculty for several of the Qualitative Research Summer Intensives and mentor at ResearchTalk’s Qualitative Methods Camps. At recent Intensives, she has taught courses on qualitative methods in implementation research, rapid qualitative research methods, qualitative grant-writing, qualitative interviewing, integrated mixed methods research, and enhancing the usefulness of qualitative research. She is a co-author of Sort and Sift, Think and Shift (forthcoming, Guilford).
Registration Fees
- UNC-CH Students: $0, with a $35 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
- UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Resident/Visiting Scholar: $95
Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 9/23/2022. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
- Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.
-Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.
Odum Institute: Introduction to Stata
Mon. 26 Sep, 2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Introduction to Stata (online)
This online course will be offered over 3 afternoons (9/26, 9/28, and 9/30), 2 hours per day. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
This course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. By the end of the course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Use Stata’s Graphical User Interference (GUI) with dialog boxes and with typed commands
- Enter, transfer, and save data that are in different formats, e.g., Excel, SAS, SPSS, fix format with a dictionary
- Append, merge, and sort datasets
- Create variable labels
- Generate temporary datasets
- Create a codebook
- Make the most of do, and log files
- Create graphs and tables
- Identify duplicates
- Enter commands to run basic statistical analysis, e.g., Ordinary Least Square regression, correlation, Chi-square test, summarize, describe
Instructor: Eugenia Conde, PhD
Eugenia Conde, PhD is a Statistical Consultant at The H. W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She provides consultations to students and faculty on research methods and statistics. Her PhD is in sociology with a concentration in demography and medical sociology. In addition, she holds an MSPH in epidemiology. Before working at the Odum Institute, she worked at Rutgers University and at Duke University as a statistical consultant for graduate students and as a statistician for researchers from different disciplines, including political science, economics, psychology, sociology, and public health.
She is co-authoring a statistics book, Applied Regression Models in the Social Sciences (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Her research interests include social inequalities, research methods, and statistics with a focus on missing data and methodologies to study people of color.
Registration Fees
$0, with a $20 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 9/23/2022. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
- Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.
-Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.
Tue. 27 Sep, 2022
Odum Institute: Analyzing large datasets with the Julia language
Tue. 27 Sep, 2022 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Analyzing large datasets with the Julia language (online)
This 3.5 hour course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
This course 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, filtering, and joining that data; calculating descriptive statistics; and estimating statistical models.
Instructor: Matthew Wigginton Bhagat-Conway, PhD
Matthew Wigginton Bhagat-Conway, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and a consultant in the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science. His research interests are in travel behavior, urban transportation, and statistical methods for transportation data analysis. He is available to assist researchers with statistics and data analysis.
Bhagat-Conway has a PhD and MA in Geography from Arizona State University, and a BA in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to graduate school, he was a software developer and project manager for Conveyal, a public transport planning consulting firm, and a fellow in the Data Science for Social Good fellowship at the University of Chicago.
Registration Fees
- UNC-CH Students: $0, with a $20 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
- UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Resident/Visiting Scholar: $40
Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 9/24/2022. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
- Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.
-Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.
UNC CHER: Co-Lab(orative) Learning Workshop
Tue. 27 Sep, 2022 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The UNC Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Health Equity Research Intensive (HERI) is offering a collaborative learning workshop as a space for participants to co-create a definition of inclusive and equitable health research and generating innovative solutions toward achieving inclusive research.
Registration for the Co-Lab(orative) Learning Workshop is free. Community members who attend will receive a gift card for their time and participation. They will also be listed as co-creators for materials created in the workshop.
This workshop is sponsored by Genentech, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH), NC TraCS, UNC Rural and Whole Community Connection, Clinical Scholars, UNC Research and the UNC SOM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Wed. 28 Sep, 2022
Odum Institute: Integrated mixed methods
Wed. 28 Sep, 2022 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Integrated mixed methods: bridging qualitative and quantitative methods and results
This course will take place over three mornings (9/26/22, 9/28/22, and 9/30/22), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
Integrated mixed methods are used to answer questions that necessitate more than one method to achieve a holistic understanding. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches can enhance conversations about theory, practice, and/or policy. This demanding paradigm requires knowledge, skill, and expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as the art of intentionally integrating the approaches to and findings from each mode of inquiry. This course focuses on strategies, tips, and best practices to accomplish integration in accessible and effective ways, including:
- Rationales to guide decision-making related to study design and execution
- Conceptual, theoretical, and/or logic models as roadmaps to set the stage for and guide integration
- Analytic strategies that advance frameworks and dynamic processes of connecting, building, merging, embedding, and bridging
Instructor: Alison B. Hamilton, PhD, MPH
Alison B. Hamilton, PhD, MPH, a VA Research Career Scientist and Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, received her PhD in medical and psychological anthropology from UCLA in 2002, and her MPH in Community Health Sciences from UCLA in 2009. Hamilton is the Director of the VA-funded EMPOWER (Enhancing Mental and Physical Health of Women through Engagement and Retention) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), focused on improving women Veterans’ health and health care through implementation science. She is the Chief Officer of Implementation & Policy at the VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, specializing in women Veterans’ health, mental health services research, and implementation science.
She is also PI of a large-scale NIH study of enhancing organizational and individual readiness to address cardiovascular risk among individuals living with HIV. She was a fellow in the inaugural cohort of the NIMH/VA Implementation Research Institute and she serves as an Associate Editor for Implementation Science Communications (BMC) and on the editorial boards of Implementation Science (BMC), Women’s Health Issues (Elsevier), and Implementation Research and Practice (Sage).
Hamilton has been a consultant with ResearchTalk for over 20 years, providing direct support to clients as well as serving as faculty for several of the Qualitative Research Summer Intensives and mentor at ResearchTalk’s Qualitative Methods Camps. At recent Intensives, she has taught courses on qualitative methods in implementation research, rapid qualitative research methods, qualitative grant-writing, qualitative interviewing, integrated mixed methods research, and enhancing the usefulness of qualitative research. She is a co-author of Sort and Sift, Think and Shift (forthcoming, Guilford).
Registration Fees
- UNC-CH Students: $0, with a $35 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
- UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Resident/Visiting Scholar: $95
Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 9/23/2022. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
- Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.
-Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.
UNC ORD: 2023 Creativity Hubs Q&A Webinar
Wed. 28 Sep, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join the UNC Office of Research Development for a presentation about the 2023 Creativity Hubs Program, reviewing the program and covering updates to this year's program including co-sponsorship of a project with the new School of Data Science and Society (UNC SDSS). Full details at the 2023 RFP.
DHS Research Forum: New frontiers in Health Sciences research
Wed. 28 Sep, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
New frontiers in Health Sciences research
Please join the Department of Health Sciences Office of Research & Scholarship for the first research forum of the 2022-2023 academic year. The forum will take place in MacNider 321 with a Zoom option available.
Presenters:
Kimberly Jenkins, PhD
Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences
Patterns of grammatical development in Spanish-English dual language learners: What they indicate
Micheal Sandbank, PhD
Division of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy
Understanding the factors that shape the effectiveness of autism-specific early childhood supports using meta-analysis
Julia Drouin, AuD, PhD
Division of Speech & Hearing Sciences
Auditory training to support pediatric cochlear implantation
Questions? Email John Grose at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Odum Institute: Introduction to Stata
Wed. 28 Sep, 2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Introduction to Stata (online)
This online course will be offered over 3 afternoons (9/26, 9/28, and 9/30), 2 hours per day. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
This course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. By the end of the course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Use Stata’s Graphical User Interference (GUI) with dialog boxes and with typed commands
- Enter, transfer, and save data that are in different formats, e.g., Excel, SAS, SPSS, fix format with a dictionary
- Append, merge, and sort datasets
- Create variable labels
- Generate temporary datasets
- Create a codebook
- Make the most of do, and log files
- Create graphs and tables
- Identify duplicates
- Enter commands to run basic statistical analysis, e.g., Ordinary Least Square regression, correlation, Chi-square test, summarize, describe
Instructor: Eugenia Conde, PhD
Eugenia Conde, PhD is a Statistical Consultant at The H. W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She provides consultations to students and faculty on research methods and statistics. Her PhD is in sociology with a concentration in demography and medical sociology. In addition, she holds an MSPH in epidemiology. Before working at the Odum Institute, she worked at Rutgers University and at Duke University as a statistical consultant for graduate students and as a statistician for researchers from different disciplines, including political science, economics, psychology, sociology, and public health.
She is co-authoring a statistics book, Applied Regression Models in the Social Sciences (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Her research interests include social inequalities, research methods, and statistics with a focus on missing data and methodologies to study people of color.
Registration Fees
$0, with a $20 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 9/23/2022. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
- Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.
-Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.
Thu. 29 Sep, 2022
Funding Info Session: NEW Clinical & Translational Science Pilot RFA
Thu. 29 Sep, 2022 10:00 am - 11:00 am
TraCS has released a new pilot RFA that is focused on translational science. Since this is a departure from our long-standing pilot RFAs focused on translational research, we are holding information sessions for investigators interested in learning more about this new funding opportunity.
Presenters
David Peden, MD, MS
CTS Pilot Program Module Lead,NC TraCS Institute
Senior Associate Dean for Translational Research, UNC School of Medicine
David Carroll, PhD
Director of Research Funding Development, NC TraCS Institute
Fri. 30 Sep, 2022
Odum Institute: Integrated mixed methods
Fri. 30 Sep, 2022 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
Integrated mixed methods: bridging qualitative and quantitative methods and results
This course will take place over three mornings (9/26/22, 9/28/22, and 9/30/22), 2.5 hours per morning, and will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
Integrated mixed methods are used to answer questions that necessitate more than one method to achieve a holistic understanding. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches can enhance conversations about theory, practice, and/or policy. This demanding paradigm requires knowledge, skill, and expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as the art of intentionally integrating the approaches to and findings from each mode of inquiry. This course focuses on strategies, tips, and best practices to accomplish integration in accessible and effective ways, including:
- Rationales to guide decision-making related to study design and execution
- Conceptual, theoretical, and/or logic models as roadmaps to set the stage for and guide integration
- Analytic strategies that advance frameworks and dynamic processes of connecting, building, merging, embedding, and bridging
Instructor: Alison B. Hamilton, PhD, MPH
Alison B. Hamilton, PhD, MPH, a VA Research Career Scientist and Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, received her PhD in medical and psychological anthropology from UCLA in 2002, and her MPH in Community Health Sciences from UCLA in 2009. Hamilton is the Director of the VA-funded EMPOWER (Enhancing Mental and Physical Health of Women through Engagement and Retention) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI), focused on improving women Veterans’ health and health care through implementation science. She is the Chief Officer of Implementation & Policy at the VA Health Services Research and Development (HSR&D) Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Policy at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, specializing in women Veterans’ health, mental health services research, and implementation science.
She is also PI of a large-scale NIH study of enhancing organizational and individual readiness to address cardiovascular risk among individuals living with HIV. She was a fellow in the inaugural cohort of the NIMH/VA Implementation Research Institute and she serves as an Associate Editor for Implementation Science Communications (BMC) and on the editorial boards of Implementation Science (BMC), Women’s Health Issues (Elsevier), and Implementation Research and Practice (Sage).
Hamilton has been a consultant with ResearchTalk for over 20 years, providing direct support to clients as well as serving as faculty for several of the Qualitative Research Summer Intensives and mentor at ResearchTalk’s Qualitative Methods Camps. At recent Intensives, she has taught courses on qualitative methods in implementation research, rapid qualitative research methods, qualitative grant-writing, qualitative interviewing, integrated mixed methods research, and enhancing the usefulness of qualitative research. She is a co-author of Sort and Sift, Think and Shift (forthcoming, Guilford).
Registration Fees
- UNC-CH Students: $0, with a $35 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
- UNC-CH Faculty/Staff/Postdoc/Resident/Visiting Scholar: $95
Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 9/23/2022. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
- Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.
-Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.
Odum Institute: Introduction to Stata
Fri. 30 Sep, 2022 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Introduction to Stata (online)
This online course will be offered over 3 afternoons (9/26, 9/28, and 9/30), 2 hours per day. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.
Course Summary:
This course introduces students to Stata and data management. It is tailored for beginners and researchers who want to learn how to manage data more effectively. Each day, the class will demonstrate how to use the commands, followed by hands-on exercises using sample datasets. By the end of the course, participants will be able to perform the following:
- Use Stata’s Graphical User Interference (GUI) with dialog boxes and with typed commands
- Enter, transfer, and save data that are in different formats, e.g., Excel, SAS, SPSS, fix format with a dictionary
- Append, merge, and sort datasets
- Create variable labels
- Generate temporary datasets
- Create a codebook
- Make the most of do, and log files
- Create graphs and tables
- Identify duplicates
- Enter commands to run basic statistical analysis, e.g., Ordinary Least Square regression, correlation, Chi-square test, summarize, describe
Instructor: Eugenia Conde, PhD
Eugenia Conde, PhD is a Statistical Consultant at The H. W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She provides consultations to students and faculty on research methods and statistics. Her PhD is in sociology with a concentration in demography and medical sociology. In addition, she holds an MSPH in epidemiology. Before working at the Odum Institute, she worked at Rutgers University and at Duke University as a statistical consultant for graduate students and as a statistician for researchers from different disciplines, including political science, economics, psychology, sociology, and public health.
She is co-authoring a statistics book, Applied Regression Models in the Social Sciences (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). Her research interests include social inequalities, research methods, and statistics with a focus on missing data and methodologies to study people of color.
Registration Fees
$0, with a $20 deposit to hold your spot (deposit is refundable upon your attendance for at least 66% of the course)
Additional Course Registration
- Registration will close at 12:01 am on 9/23/2022. Once registration closes, no late registrations will be accepted, no exceptions.
- Cancellation/ Refund Policy: A full refund will be given to those who cancel their registration no later than 10 days prior to the course. If you cancel within 10 days prior to the class, no refund will be given. Please allow 30 days to receive your refund.
-Zoom link for this course will be sent prior to the course. Registration must be made at least 3 days prior to the course date to receive the Zoom link.
Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds: CTTI’s Digital Health Trials Hub
Fri. 30 Sep, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
CTTI’s Digital Health Trials Hub: Multi-Stakeholder Resources to Conduct Effective Digital Health Trials
This NIH Collaboratory Rethinking Clinical Trials Grand Rounds features:
Marianne Chase
Senior Director Clinical Trial Operations
Neurological Clinical Research Institute
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jörg Goldhahn, MD
Medical Director
Director of Institute for Translational Medicine
ETH Zurich
UNC NORC: Aging, Exercise, and Evolution in Human Energetics
Fri. 30 Sep, 2022 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Fall 2022 Seminar Series Co-Sponsored by the UNC Gillings Department of Nutrition and the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center
In-Person Seminar, Aging, Exercise, and Evolution in Human Energetics, with Herman Pontzer, PhD, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Global Health, Duke University.
Location: 2301 McGavran-Greenberg Hall
In partnership with:
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