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Margaret Burchinal, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Director of Data Management Core
burchinal@unc.edu
PH: 919.966.5059
FAX: 919.962.5771
Mailing Address:
Campus Box 8185
The University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8185
Margaret Burchinal, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the FPG Child Development Institute. She directs FPG’s Data Management and Statistics Unit. Dr. Burchinal also is a research professor in the Department of Psychology and an adjunct professor in the Department of Biostatistics at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Burchinal currently is the principal investigator of two FPG projects. Risk & Protective Factors: Development of African American Youth seeks to identify risk and protective factors in academic development for African American children. The Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Longitudinal Measurement and Analysis Project is examining the feasibility and utility of integrated qualitative and quantitative analyses.
Margaret Burchinal is one of the Associate Editors for Child Development and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. In addition, Dr. Burchinal is a panel reviewer for the Institute for Educational Sciences at the US Department of Education, a member of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development’s Special Emphasis Review Committee, and serves on Advisory Boards for many national and local child care projects. She recently served on the National Research Council’s committee that studied assessing children during early childhood. She has authored numerous papers and chapters as well as two books.
View Currently Funded Projects of Margaret Burchinal
(click on Project names to see project details)- Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship
- UNC Developmental Disabilities Research Center
- The Longitudinal Development of African American English
- Pragmatic Skills of Young Males
- Pragmatic Skills of Children with FX, Down Syndrome, ASD and Typical Devel
- Administrative Supplement for the Family Adaptation to FXS (ARRA)
- In the Running for Successful Outcomes
- Child Care and Early Education Quality Features, Thresholds, and Dosage
- Post-Doctoral Research Training Fellowship in Education Sciences
- Family Adaptation to Fragile X Syndrome
- Family Life Project
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