Resources for Remote/Virtual Research
The URCC hopes that this collection of resources, which will be updated as more are identified, will spur ideas and provide remote research tools for undergraduates and their faculty mentors.
| Resource Name | Resource Notes | Resource Poster: Your Name, Department, Role |
|---|---|---|
| Council on Undergraduate Research Webinar: Virtual Undergraduate Research in Action | Virtual Undergraduate Research in Action, sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research and the National Science Foundation (available free through May 31, 2020). Contact margaretlynch@brandeis.edu for more information.) Peers at other institutions describe programs, tools, and projects they have used to support remote undergraduate researchers. | URCC, Margaret Lynch |
| Brandeis Library Remote Resources | Remote Resources for Brandeis Library Users | |
| Brandeis Library Subject Liaisons | Instruction and support to use technology and Library resources applicable to your project | |
| Brandeis Center for Teaching and Learning | A plethora of resources, including a collaborative document | |
| Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic | Thirty-Nine pages of resources compiled by the community for refashioning field-based research for online platforms. Includes many topics, including Doing Online Interviews, Using Facebook Groups, Digital Methods and Quali-Quant analysis, Using Podcasts to Study Culture, Arts-based Project Combined with Skype Interviews, Digital Mapping and Geospatial Technologies, and more. Citation: Lupton, D. (editor) (2020) Doing fieldwork in a pandemic (crowd-sourced document). Available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1clGjGABB2h2qbduTgfqribHmog9B6P0NvMgVuiHZCl8/edit?ts=5e88ae0a# | URCC |
| Creating and Supporting Remote Research (North Carolina State) | Ideas for Students and Ideas for Mentors lists general tips. | URCC |
| Human Research Protection Program | Contains guidelines for allowable human participants research and links to IRB Modification Request Forms and a COVID-19 Policy Exemption Request Form. | URCC |
| Human Research Protection Program - Student Researchers | FAQs for Student Researchers | URCC |
| Skills acquisition through LinkedIn Learning | Includes courses such as Excel Statistics, Psychology of Adaptation, Learning R, Python for Data Science, Adobe Animate, Voice-Over for Video and Animation, and more. | URCC |
| Technical Resources to Support Remote Research (Penn State University) | This wide-ranging collection of resources contains information for faculty such as Guidances for Remote Teaching or Research from Home, Performing Teaching Demonstrations in University Labs or Shops, Fieldwork, and | URCC |
| Which studies may continue? (guidelines for Harvard University) | Clarifies that conducting physical laboratory experiments at home is dangerous, hazardous, and prohibited. | URCC |
| Library workshops | We’ll be offering online workshops this summer. You can also request a workshop for a group if there’s a topic you’d like covered. | Laura Hibbler, Library |
| Brandeis Science Communication Lab (SciComm Lab) | ***Open for virtual appointments all summer.*** The SciComm Lab offers individual coaching, targeted workshops, and a range of initiatives to support the Brandeis scientific community with the skills they need to communicate the rationale, process and results of their incredible science to any audience in written, spoken or visual form. | Anique Olivier-Mason, Division of Science |
| Remote Work Survival Kit | The Remote Work Survival Kit is a crowdsourced document, created in response to the COVID19 Coronavirus, to help those who are trying to: 1. Implement remote working in their organization. 2. Set themselves up to work from home. 3. Protect their business, their staff and teams from effects of this and future pandemics. | URCC |
| Resource Name | Resource Notes | Resource Poster: Your Name, Department, Role |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Research Undergraduate Showcase Example (WPI) | Student-narrated video and slide presentations of Undergraduate Research Projects | Steven Karel, Division of Science |
| Posters on the Hill | Twitter event: students present their posters and viewers can comment. Typically this is an in-person event where 60 students (selected from a competitive pool of applicants) present their research in Washington DC to members of Congress. | URCC |