Units across campus support various aspects of research data management. Listed below are several of those units and the types of activities they support.
- Office of Research & Sponsored Programs (ORSP)
- Support for understanding and meeting grant and funder requirements regarding research data
- Compliance, including the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
- University Libraries
- Training and consultation on data literacy and the lifecycle of research data
- Assistance with data management plans, organizing and preserving research data
- Finding existing data in repositories and reuse of data
- Information Management & Technology
- Support for special data computing needs as relates to software, storage, security, equipment, and more
- UNC Data Resources
- Research Consulting Lab
- Free consultation on research and survey design, data collection and management, data analysis, and reporting of results
- Run by the Department of Applied Statistics and Research Methods (ASRM) with consultants that have extensive training in applied statistics and research methods, and both quantitative and qualitative research
- Social Research Lab
- Consultants for data collection and analysis
- Market research, focus groups, policy analyses, report writing, program evaluation, phone, mail and email surveys, interviews, needs assessments and quality of life studies
