Centers and Institutes
Center for Research and Collaborative Activities
The Center for Research and Collaborative Activities (CRCA) supports and contributes to the College of Health, Education and Human Development's priority — increase research focus and capabilities. The CRCA facilitates grantsmanship, research, and scholarship by providing a variety of services.
OBJECTIVES:
- Increase research productivity in HEHD
- Promote collaborative research environment
- Support HEHD research initiatives
SERVICES:
- Identify funding opportunities for faculty
- Work with faculty to assemble research teams
- Assist with biosketches
- Complete and route proposal processing forms
- Complete electronic submissions
- Develop grant budgets
- Provide proposal development resources
- Provide content and methodology consultation
- Review proposals for compliance with funder specifications and university policies
- Review for scientific content
- Assist with post-award grant budgets and management
- Maintain grant tracking system
- Provide research design and statistics consultation
- Train faculty on SPSS database set-up
- Review/edit manuscripts
- Provide ongoing seminars and workshops
- Conduct summer grant-writing workshops
- Host new faculty workshops
Recent Blog Posts
Summer Research Training Institute: Cluster-Randomized Trials
National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2)
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Data Conference Presentations
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NIH releases best practices for combining qualitative and quantitative research