(Allied) Health Sciences: Faculty Resources: Research 101
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DAHS Office of Research & Scholarship
After meeting with your Division Director and Val Tan, contact Patty Kinneer, Managing Director of Research Support & Scholarship (contact information below) , who will connect you with research and scholarship resources and connect you with networking opportunities. The office also maintains a set of mentoring resources.
Associate Chair for Research: John Grose, PhD:
Managing Director of Research Support & Scholarship: Patty Kinneer
- 919-445-0507
- patricia_kinneer@med.unc.edu
The DHS Office of Research and Scholarship (OORS) provides an array of services for researchers and scholars: Resources
Example research support includes the following:
- Mentoring resources
- Budget development
- Consultation on data security
- Preparation of grant proposals
- Post-award management
- Methodological support
The OORS offers preparation of manuscripts, presentations, and other continuing education materials. The OORS hosts monthly forums highlighting best practices in research, clinical services, and teaching.
GPS (Grant Pre-Submission Notification System): One-stop online shop within DHS to help you complete your grant application correctly and on time. Alerts the OORS and ready them to provide any support you need. Direct Link to GPS input form
- Who: all faculty and students
- What: any grant, internal or external, even if you decide later not to submit the proposal.
- When:
- As soon as you think about preparing an application for a specific funding agency
- It’s never too early, but at least 30 days before the due date
DHS Methodology Consultants:
- Wanqing Zhang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Methodologist. Email: wanqing_zhang@med.unc.edu
- Mixed Methods (Qualitative + Quantitative), Secondary Data Analysis, Health Services & Public Health Research Methods
- Clare Harrop, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Translational Research Methodologist. Email: clare_harrop@med.unc.edu
- Translational methods, combined behavioral and psychophysiological methods, Early Career grant applications (K awards, pre & postdoctoral fellowships)
- Sabrina Zadrozny, PhD, Methodology Consultant for Quantitative Research DHS ORS, Epidemiologist Director, Data Management and Analysis Core, FPG. Email: sabrinaz@unc.edu
- Study Designs: cohort studies (prospective and retrospective), case-control studies, case-cohort studies, RCT, crossover designs, cross-sectional, survey design; analyses aligned with study design.
Biosketches
SciENcv has templates to create several types of Biosketches (including NIH, NSF, IES). SciENcv is a researcher profile system for all individuals who apply for, receive or are associated with research investments from federal agencies. SciENcv is available in PubMed's My NCBI, and it integrates with ORCID.
- Using the IES Biographical Sketch (from My NCBI Help Book SciENcv, last update 8/28/24)The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), biographical sketch format is the official format used for grant submissions to the IES. Researchers who have their publications indexed in the IES ERIC database can export their ERIC citations to My Bibliography, and use the citations stored in My Bibliography to populate SciENcv biosketches. ORCID ID account holders who have linked their accounts to My NCBI can populate their SciENcv biosketches with the information stored in their ORCID accounts. Information on linking accounts to NCBI can be found in Using a Partner Organization Username and Password.
Navigating NCTraCS: Examples from a Junior Faculty Member
Examples of how a then early career faculty member started with $2k to shape her career --Clare Harrop, PhD
- Associate Professor and Translational Research Methodologist, Department of Health Sciences
- Presentation to the UNC Department of (Allied) Health Sciences, October, 2018
- UNC's NC TraCS Institute ("TraCS"): An NIH grant-funded institute serving the research community with a mission to accelerate discoveries into interventions that improve the health of individuals and the public. Our aims are to develop and support a skilled research workforce, engage diverse stakeholders as active partners, develop innovative methods to address barriers to translating scientific findings, and incorporate cutting-edge informatics tools and methodologies in every aspect of translational research.
Also see the September 1, 2020, TraCS News Article, Asking the Right Questions, in which Clare Harrop, PhD, describes the TraCS $2K pilot award as a gateway that opened doors to many other opportunities.
- Why don't we see more young girls with autism? To tackle this big, complicated question, Clare Harrop, PhD - a developmental psychologist in the Department of Health Sciences at Carolina - started small with a TraCS $2K pilot award.
- "I did not expect to get five publications, numerous conference presentations, and three more grants out of this."
IRB & Research Ethics
- UNC Research: IRB & the Office of Human Research EthicsIncludes announcements and events (including IRB pop-ups around campus for drop-in assistance).
- TraCS (North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute) Clinical Research Ethics• Provides confidential ethics consultation on research design and ongoing research projects. Helps with background research and policy advice on best practices in research ethics.
• Assists with research ethics issues that may fall outside the scope of IRB and IACUC oversight. Research ethics consultations can cover a wide range of topics--see this site for examples.
• Also coordinates Research Ethics Grand Rounds, a monthly seminar series addressing current ethical, legal and social issues in the design and conduct of biomedical research. - UNC IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee)Oversees the University’s animal care and use program and is responsible for reviewing all animal care applications using vertebrate animals, ensuring compliance with federal animal welfare regulations, inspecting animal facilities and investigator laboratories, investigating animal concerns, and overseeing training and educational programs.