SSRI offers free consulting to all Duke faculty and students who are involved in social and behavioral science research.

If you need help developing and testing a research hypothesis, Alexandra Cooper is available to assist you. Her specialties include survey design, implementation, and data analysis. She particularly welcomes undergraduate and graduate student researchers as they seek to develop questions in which they have theoretical interests into feasible research projects.

Office Hours:
M, T, Th: Noon - 6:00 p.m.
Erwin Mill, B133
*please e-mail to schedule appointment
E-mail: cooper@duke.edu
Phone: 919.681.3902

To confirm a desired appointment time for other consulting issues, please contact Gary Thompson.

Office Hours:
M-F: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
E-mail: garyt@duke.edu
Phone: 919.681.5873

SSRI now offers a help desk inside SSRI's Computer Lab, Erwin Mill B140 which is staffed Monday - Wednesday from 1 - 5 p.m. and Thursday from 1 - 4:30 p.m. Come ask your questions to experts in such topics as ArcGIS, Excel, Matlab, MPlus, NodeXL, Qualtrics, R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata; survey design, sampling, and managing missing data; and linear, longitudinal multilevel, network, spatial, and models. If you have questions about the help desk, or difficulty connecting with the desired expertise, please email Alexandra Cooper.