Research Resources
The Center for Urban and Regional Studies offers a wide range of services to Faculty Fellows and their students. We provide support for research proposal development and submission, funded research project administration and research dissemination.
What CURS offers
The Center for Urban & Regional Studies makes available the following services to its Faculty Fellows:
Research Proposal Development & Submission
- Seed grants for travel, literature review and/or data acquisition associated with proposal development
- Funding source identification via funding alerts
- Development and coordination of interdisciplinary research teams
- Research design and qualitative/quantitative methods consultation
- Editorial review
- Proposal budget preparation
- “Boiler plate language” on University facilities, equipment and research support
- Preparation and processing of University internal forms
Funded Research Project Administration
- Overhead sharing agreement with home units and principal investigators
- Contract negotiation assistance
- Editorial assistance
- Preparation of monthly budget statements
- Hiring of research project staff
- Office space for large projects
- Equipment availability (laptops, tape recorders, digital camera, audio visual, etc.)
- Meeting space/conference room
- Meeting planning and scheduling assistance
- Travel reimbursement and purchasing assistance
- Data, reports and publications repository
Research Dissemination
- Final report publication
- CURS publication lists
- New and completed projects featured in CURS newsletter
- Press release preparation
- Social media dissemination
CURS Tools for Developing Research Projects
Datasets:
Center for Urban and Regional Studies Dataset Database
Funding sources:
Relevant Foundations and their Funding Priorities
CURS Proposal Development and Submission Process
Proposal Development & Submission Process for CURS (PDF)
Helpful resources:
Office of Sponsored Research Information Sheet UNC-Chapel Hill
Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Rates for the UNC-Chapel Hill