We are a Research Center within the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
For current event updates and information on our work, or if you're interested in initiating a project, please contact us!
Center for Social Science Research
Allgood Hall N217
Dr. Dustin Avent-Holt, Director
Each year we select faculty working on social scientific projects to participate in our Fellowship Programs. View our current and previous fellows.
The Qualitative Research Lab (QRL) offers consultation and support for qualitative social scientific research at »Æ¹Ï¶ÌÊÓƵ.
We host regular research talks from faculty inside and outside of AU to learn about each other’s’ research and help AU faculty develop their research programs. If you would like to present your research, please contact us!
Reach out to faculty for research opportunities and collaborations.
We house several physical resources that any faculty across AU are able to utilize when needed in their research.
We maintain two airgapped computers for faculty to analyze sensitive data that cannot be connected to the internet. These computers include all licensed AU data analysis software (SPSS, SAS, NVivo). We also work with faculty to ensure any software they need is downloaded onto these computers if they are actively using them for data analysis. Please contact us if you would like to use this resource for your research!
We house a digital scanner for any AU faculty to use in digitizing texts. Our Fujitsu ScanSnap SV600 is state of the art for overhead scanners and is ideal for digitizing any primary materials into digital format. Once digitized these documents can then be analyzed qualitatively or computationally. Please contact us if you would like to use this resource for your research!
