This webinar, hosted by the National Archive of Data on Arts & Culture (NADAC) and moderated by Melissa Menzer, a Senior Program Analyst in the Office of Research & Analysis at the NEA, will introduce participants to NEA research priority areas, their research grant funding opportunities, and several examples of research projects funded by the NEA research awards that use datasets archived or cataloged in NADAC. Presentations from the webinar panelists will cover the Health and Retirement Study, various datasets from the National Center of Education Statistics, and the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP). Panelists will share their successes and challenges working with these datasets and/or working with data repositories to analyze data. Panelists include Jennifer Novak-Leonard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kenneth Elpus (University of Maryland School of Music), and Hei Wan (Karen) Mak (World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Arts and Health). This webinar is free and open to the public. To register, go to https://myumi.ch/1A6pb.