Bond University’s Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine is offering 4 x half-day weekend workshops in Research methods for all health professionals. These introductory workshops are designed for those without any formal training in research.
Overview
These workshops will take you through the various steps of the research process and will provide opportunities to develop the skills required to undertake a research project within various discipline areas. The workshops aim to explore how to get started and become motivated in research, how to move from an idea or problem to developing a conceptual, theoretical framework and a concrete research topic and how to write up your findings for publication.
Cost
$150 per workshop or $500 for four workshops
Workshop Breakdown
Workshop 1 – Introduction to research
This first morning workshop will introduce the notion of research and cover the following topics:
a. General introduction and overview of subject and workshop
b. Understanding research – brainstorming exercise terminology - desensitising
c. What constitutes research?
d. Choosing a research question
e. Moving from a question or problem into a framework
f. Undertaking a research project – planning, literature review, methodology, timeline, budget, analysis, interpretation, write-up
g. Ethical considerations
h. Writing a research proposal.
Workshop 2 – Undertaking a systematic literature review
a. Undertaking a literature review – narrative or systematic?
Participants are introduced to the notion of ‘literature review as original research’, and the relationship with Evidence Based Practice.
What is meta-analysis, and when is it used?
b. Defining a review question and criteria
This will build on what is discussed in the introductory session.
c. Methods of systematic review
i. Asking an ‘answerable’ question: P I C O
ii. Searching: introduction to literature searching
iii. Critical appraisal of research (use of the RAMBO acronym)
iv. Interpreting the results
d. Combining data – meta-analysis and forest plot
e. Threats to the validity of systematic review:
v. Publication bias (funnel plots)
vi. Heterogeneity
f. Special kinds of systematic review:
vii. Cochrane reviews
viii. Diagnostic reviews
Workshop 3 – Quantitative research methods
a. Question types
• Treatment
• Diagnostic
• Prognosis
• Etiological
• (phenomenological)
b. Study types
• RCTs
• Cross-sectional (surveys; diagnostic; frequency)
• Cohort studies and Case-control studies
• Case reports and case-series
• (Qualitative, phenomenological)
c. Bias: threats to the validity of research (use of the RAMMbo acronym):
• Sampling
• Allocation
• Maintenance
• Measurement
Workshop 4 – Qualitative Research workshop
Qualitative research began with social scientists trying to make sense of people’s lived experiences. This workshop will include:
a. Introduction to qualitative research
b. Research paradigms, conceptual and theoretical frameworks
c. Qualitative research frameworks: ethnography, grounded theory, action research, etc.
d. Data collection: focus groups, interviews, etc.
e. Data analysis and interpretation
f. Mixed methods.
When
02 June 2012
- 21 July 2012
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Where
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, Bond University
Contact Information
Associate Professor Janie Smith
Email: jansmith@bond.edu.au
