Download TranscriptResearchTalk has partnered again with the Odum Institute to co-host the 18th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive (July 26–August 6, 2021). This interdisciplinary event features 18 online courses on important topics in qualitative inquiry taught by leading scholars in the field.  In this episode, we spoke with three scholars who will be teaching courses addressing issues of social justice at this year’s Intensive: Keon Gilbert, Rashawn Ray, and Kelly Jackson. Each course aims to use qualitative inquiry as a foundation for designing programs and policies to inform social change and social justice efforts. Dr. Jackson’s course, Qualitative Research with Historically Oppressed Populations: Using Cultural Attunement across the Research Lifecycle, will explore how qualitative researchers can conceive and implement meaningful research that matters to the lives of individuals, families, and communities from historically oppressed racial and ethnic groups. Dr. Gilbert’s course, Photovoice: Powerful Images that Communicate Current Realities to Direct Social Change, presents an overview of photovoice as a participatory qualitative method that provides a way for community members to take and share photographs that express the strengths and needs of their community. Dr. Ray’s course, Using Qualitative Inquiry to Contribute to Social Justice, explores how we can use qualitative research via stories, first-person accounts, in-depth interviews, content analysis, and observations to draw attention to underlying mechanisms that define social problems.  A course co-taught by Dr. Ray and Dr. Gilbert, Learning from Marginalized Voices in Community-based Participatory Research, provides researchers with principles and tools to conduct qualitative-focused community-based participatory research. Learn more about the courses discussed in this episode and register for QRSI courses at www.researchtalk.com/qrsi-2021/.

Download TranscriptIn collaboration with RENCI and the National Consortium for Data Science, Odum will host Data Matters 2021, a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and governmentIn this episode, we spoke with Data Matters course instructor, Angela Zoss. Dr. Zoss is an Assessment & Data Visualization Analyst with the Duke University Libraries, where she has taught visualization practices and tools for over 10 years. Her course, Visualization for Data Science using R, will provide skills in visualization design using R, a tool commonly used for data science. She has designed the course for both experienced visualization designers and data science professionals with little experience in this area. The course will also discuss ways to make your data visualizations more accessible. Data Matters 2021 will be held virtually from August 9 – 13 via Zoom. Learn more about her course in this episode and register for short courses online today. 

Download TranscriptIn collaboration with RENCI and the National Consortium for Data Science, Odum will host Data Matters 2021, a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and governmentIn this episode, we spoke with Data Matters course instructor, Eric Monson. Dr. Monson is a data visualization specialist with the Duke University Libraries’ Data and Visualization Services. His course, Introduction to Effective Information Visualization, will enable participants to use freely and commonly available software to create effective visualizations and structure data with impactful figures. Data Matters 2021 will be held virtually from August 9 – 13 via Zoom. Learn more about his course in this episode and register for short courses online today. 

Download TranscriptCurrently a fourth-year Nutrition PhD candidate at UNC Gillings School of Public Health, Khristopher Nicholas is interested in the intersections of health, food, and sustainability. In this episode, we discuss his current research, which involves  food and water security in the Galápagos islands of Ecuador.In his project "Food Environments in the Galápagos," Khristopher is using a three-pronged approach to tackle his research questions, which includes: collecting spatial data for food environment maps, using factor analysis to determine food purchasing strategies, and integrating qualitative methods to explore community perceptions of and attitudes toward their food environments. We also discuss the challenges and considerations involved in doing community-based research as an outsider, what drew him to nutrition as a field of study and how COVID-19 has influenced his research experience.Important Links:Department of Nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Public Health UNC Center for Galapagos StudiesCarolina Population Center

Download TranscriptWhat is the difference between quantitative and qualitative data? Why is data preservation and sharing so important? What role does trust play in the data repository world? We discuss these questions and more in this episode with Dr. Sebastian Karcher, the associate director of the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) at Syracuse University.  QDR is an innovative project dedicated to the longterm management and archiving of qualitative data while most repositories focus solely on quantitative data preservation. By enabling easier data sharing between researchers and offering a variety of support services, the QDR team is facilitating more rigorous research and robust findings.UNC-Chapel Hill is now a proud institutional member of QDR - but what does that mean for Carolina's researchers? Listen to find out!Important links:Qualitative Data RepositoryAnnotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) toolRelated links:Odum data archiveOdum qualitative research support

Download TranscriptIn collaboration with the University Libraries' Research Hub, we are virtually and asynchronously hosting the Thomas M. Carsey Graduate Student Symposium throughout October. Tom Carsey, former director of the Odum Institute and esteemed political scientist, was an advocate of graduate student research and support throughout his professional career.This year, three finalists have submitted presentations and posters of their social research projects. While we cannot host an in-person poster session like last year, we still wanted to give our finalists the chance to respond to judges' questions about their projects. In this episode, finalist Soohyun Hwang, PhD candidate of Health Policy and Management in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health, will respond to questions submitted about her project, "Identifying Strategies for comprehensive implementation: A qualitative analysis of cancer programs."Also be sure to check out her project poster and video presentation!

Download TranscriptIn collaboration with the University Libraries' Research Hub, we are virtually and asynchronously hosting the Thomas M. Carsey Graduate Student Symposium throughout October. Tom Carsey, former director of the Odum Institute and esteemed political scientist, was an advocate of graduate student research and support throughout his professional career.This year, three finalists have submitted presentations and posters of their social research projects. While we cannot host an in-person poster session like last year, we still wanted to give our finalists the chance to respond to judges' questions about their projects. In this episode, finalist Kirsten Adams, PhD student in the UNC Hussman School of Media and Journalism, will respond to questions submitted about her project, "The Righteous and the Woke: Evangelicals, social justice warriors, and the moralization of U.S. political communication."Also be sure to check out her project poster and video presentation!

Download TranscriptIn collaboration with the University Libraries' Research Hub, we are virtually and asynchronously hosting the Thomas M. Carsey Graduate Student Symposium throughout October. Tom Carsey, former director of the Odum Institute and esteemed political scientist, was an advocate of graduate student research and support throughout his professional career.This year, three finalists have submitted presentations and posters of their social research projects. While we cannot host an in-person poster session like last year, we still wanted to give our finalists the chance to respond to judges' questions about their projects. In this episode, finalist Andrea Lorenz Nenque, PhD student in the UNC Hussman School of Media and Journalism, will respond to questions submitted about her project, "Urgency, Ambition and Authenticity: Exploring the experiences of women running for office post-2016."Also be sure to check out her project poster and video presentation!

Download TranscriptIn this episode, we are joined by Dr. Sara Algoe, associate professor and Kenan Scholar in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Algoe has devoted her career to studying positive social connections, specifically the moments that characterize our very best relationships. We discuss her recent project, The LOVE Consortium, a global network of researchers striving to facilitate the collaborative use of archived data to advance the study of social connections. Due to the in-depth nature of studies in her field, collecting data tends to require huge amounts of time and funding — which can be prohibitive, particularly for early-career researchers. Meanwhile, often only a small portion of the data collected by these large-scale projects winds up being used in the short-term, while the rest is left untouched until researchers are able to circle back to it in future projects.By building The LOVE Consortium Dataverse with the help of Odum archivists, Dr. Algoe and her team have created a digital space where researchers can share and find data to analyze that might have otherwise gone unused and undiscovered, expanding scientific discovery while encouraging new collaborations. We also chat about what drew her to the field of social psychology in the first place, what challenges she has faced in her own career, and what she loves most about her work.Be sure to check out: The LOVE Consortium websiteThe LOVE Consortium Dataverse

Download TranscriptIn this episode, recorded over the summer break, we chat with Pegah Kamrani. Kamrani is a fourth-year doctoral student at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry and the most recent recipient of the International Association for Dental Research's (IADR) Craniofacial Biology Group Award for her work studying Class III malocclusions in an ongoing project at Adams. She believes this award represents the appealing translational dimension of her research.This project has a rich 15-year history and began with Dr. Frazier-Bowers and other orthodontists identifying Class III subtypes in the early 2000s. This later paved way to a research project done by Gustavo Zanardi in 2011, a graduate of the orthodontics residency program at UNC-CH. Pegah’s project is similar to Zanardi’s but with a deeper focus on each patient’s surgical risk. Both projects used the help of our mathematician, Xingye Qiao.Kamrani acknowledges that this award was a team effort and would not have been possible without Dr. Frazier-Bowers, for her mentorship, Dr. Wiesen from the Odum Institute, for his collaboration, as well as Dr. Wright and Dr. Slade for their feedback on her presentation.