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Novice researchers

Science Network TV developed by Ronny Gunnarsson from our partner James Cook University and endorsed by MIRI is an excellent starting point for novice researchers and has a great overview of all stages of the research process.

Further links and resources

If you are yet to find what you need on Science Network TV, please refer to the relevant section below for more useful links and resources.

Our friends at Collaborative for Allied Health Research, Learning and Innovation (CAHRLI) deliver a range of Seminars and Videos across a broad range of areas.

1. Evidence Based Practice

Resources to support the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about patient care and to integrate individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research.

2. Developing Research Questions

Resources to support developing a research question, which is the fundamental core of a research project, study, or review of literature. Research questions focus the study, determine the methodology, and guide all stages of inquiry, analysis, and reporting.

3. Literature Search and Critical Appraisal

Resources to support comprehensive literature searching, developing key search terms in order to identify the comprehensive literature about a topic and learn about key trends and gaps in particular subject areas; and to assess the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers so that you can decide if they are valid forms of evidence.

4. Systematic Literature Review

Resources to support the appraisal and synthesis of primary research papers using a rigorous and clearly documented methodology in both the search strategy and the selection of studies.

5. Research Design and Methods

Resources to support the development of a research design, protocol and overall strategy to integrate the different components of the study in a coherent and logical way, thereby, ensuring you will effectively address the research problem. Research design constitutes the blueprint for the collection, measurement, and analysis of research data.

6. Sample Sizes
Resources to support the act of choosing the number of observations or replicates to include in a statistical sample. The sample size is an important feature of any empirical study in which the goal is to make inferences about a population from a sample.

7. Research Ethics and Governance

Resources to support you through the institutional processes that ensure all research conducted within the authorising institution is appropriately governed.

8. Clinical Trials

Resources to support the undertaking of any research studies that prospectively assign human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes.

9. Project Management

Resources to support the initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing of your research project.

10. Data Management, Entry and Analysis

Resources to support data management (the planning, collecting, organising, managing, storage, security, backing up, preserving, and sharing of research data); as well as data analysis (the process of systematically applying statistical and/or logical techniques to describe and illustrate, condense and recap, and evaluate data).

11. Publishing

Resources to support publishing in academic journal article, book or thesis form.

12. Translation and Implementation Science

Resources to support designing implementation research. Refer to the Translation and Implementation page for more information. Research translation may be understood as a dynamic and iterative process that includes synthesis, dissemination, exchange and ethically-sound application of knowledge to provide more effective health services and products and strengthen the health care system. Implementation science refers to the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other EBPs into routine practice, and, hence, to improve the quality and effectiveness of health services.

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