Research & Evaluation
Community businesses and organizations don’t need to go far to find partners for world-class research and evaluation. Located close to home, talented UNCG researchers, students, and scholars seek collaborators for the mutually beneficial exchange, exploration, and application of knowledge, information, and resources.
Below you will find links to offices or databases to help identify faculty and staff based on their areas of specialty.
Find the collaborators, connections, and technology and tools you need through UNCG’s campus-wide interdisciplinary centers and institutes.
- Center for Athlete Well-Being
- Center for Community-Engaged Design
- Center for the Health of Vulnerable Populations
- Center for Housing and Community Studies
- Center for Industry Research and Engagement (CIRE)
- Center for New North Carolinians
- Center for Translational Biomedical Research
- Center for Women’s Health and Wellness
- Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships
- Institute for Community and Economic Engagement
- Institute for Data, Evaluation, and Analytics
- Institute for Partnerships in Education
- Institute for Research Technologies
- NC Entrepreneurship Center
- NC Sales Institute
- SERVE education research center
Located in the School of Health and Human Sciences, the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness (CWHW) works to advance the health and wellness of all women and girls through collaborative research, educational programs, and community engagement. Specifically, the CWHW conducts research related to women’s multiple roles and work-family-life balance, breastfeeding, women’s reproductive health, reducing the research-practice gap in domestic violence, motherhood and coaching, and bystander intentions of student-athletes in sexually violent situations.
The Nonprofit Evaluation Support Program ( NESP) aims to increase the program evaluation capacity of nonprofit organizations, with a particular emphasis on those organizations in the Piedmont Triad Region of North Carolina. Supported by the Department of Educational Research Methodology and the SERVE Center, NESP helps nonprofit organizations implement program evaluation activities and develop the necessary capacity to sustain such activities over time. A range of services are offered, including direct program evaluation support customized to individual organizations, and capacity-building professional development training that include webinars, workshops, and online programming. Organizations that would like to request assistance from NESP may contact the UNCG Referral Desk or email us at communityengagement@uncg.edu.
The Office of Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Services (OAERS) is a division of the Department of Educational Research Methodology (ERM) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. OAERS provides consulting services to the greater community in the areas of assessment and measurement, program evaluation, research design, and data analysis.
The Office of Research and Engagement supports and amplifies the research, scholarly, and creative efforts of UNCG faculty, staff, and students, and makes connections between researchers, the community, and businesses and industry.
Our research networks and coalitions foster interdisciplinary research and scholarly activities by bringing together faculty from the UNCG community whose specialties reflect a core theme.
- Atlantic World Research Network
- Child and Family Research Network
- Coalition for Diversity in Language and Cultures
- Ethiopian, East African and Indian Ocean Research Network
- Gerontology Research, Outreach, Workforce, and Teaching Hub
- Human Rights Research Network
- Humanities Network and Consortium
- Islamic Studies Research Network
- LGBTQI Education and Research Network
- Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative
- Network for the Cultural Study of Videogaming
- Research and Instruction in STEM Education Network
- Violence Prevention Research Network
Why UNCG?
UNCG promotes a vigorous and robust learning environment for high quality research and evaluation. We stay up to date on the newest technologies, methods and research, ensuring that the university offers cutting edge applications for solving real-world issues in our community.
The experiences and expertise of our faculty, staff, and students on a wide range of topics and methods make UNCG a great partner for addressing research questions and evaluating programs.