Researchers

For researchers

I need training related to data management and/or data security

Please contact the Research Data Management Program (researchdata@berkeley.edu(link sends e-mail)) for assistance with data management and/or security training.

Data Consulting Resources

D-Lab(link is external)

D-Lab helps Berkeley faculty, staff, and students move forward with world-class research in data intensive social science and humanities. We do this by offering workshops, consultations, professional development and other training services. Our workshops aim to help users needing short trainings around programming tools (R, Python, Stata), software tools (Excel, Tableau, MaxQDA, Qualtrics), methods and techniques (qualitative and quantitative methods, spatial analysis, data visualization, social network analysis,...

Survey Data Research Guide

Data collection resources for conducting a research study or survey Qualtrics @ Berkeley(link is external)

Qualtrics is a powerful, full-featured web-based platform for creating, sharing, and conducting online surveys. Berkeley provides access to all basic features of this software to all campus members.

Surveys & Online Forms(link is external)

Additional tools for creating surveys and online forms

Resources for Data Analysis and Data Management

Berkeley offers a large variety of data analysis resources, from interactive computing to high-performance computing.

Data Management Plans

A data management plan is a document that describes how you will care for data over the course of the research lifecycle. Many federal and non-profit granting agencies require that you write and include a data management plan in your grant proposal. Writing a data management plan encourages researchers to think about data from a holistic perspective, by thinking about questions and scenarios before they arise.

The Research Data Management Program(link is external) provides assistance for creating data management plans and can help...

Export Control

Export controls(link is external) are U.S. laws and regulations for trade protection, foreign policy, or national security that regulate and restrict the release of critical technologies, data, and services to:

Foreign nationals inside and outside the United States Foreign countries

This Export Control Decision Tree(link is external) will walk you through a series of "Yes" or "No"...

Human Subjects

Committee for Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS)(link is external)

The CPHS is the IRB at Berkeley responsible for evaluating and approving all proposals involving generalizable knowledge with human subjects conducted by university faculty, staff and students.
They are particularly critical in assessment roles and the definition of standards. Selected services include:

The Office for Protection of Human Subjects (OPHS) is the administrative office that supports the CPHS by coordinating the review of...

Service Agreements with Third-Party Data

Business Contracts and Brand Protection (BCBP)(link is external)

If you have a fee-for-services agreement with an outside party under which you will be provided data to analyze as a business service, BCBP reviews, drafts, negotiates, and executes such business contracts for Berkeley on behalf of The Regents of the University of California. Requests to review or create such a business contract are submitted through the Business Contract Management System (BCMS) and must include a detailed scope of work. Faculty members and/or staff should contact...