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Managing Your Academic Research Project
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This book is an essential resource for academics managing a large and complex research project. It provides important practical insights into the processes that inform such research projects and delivers insights into the delicate balance between industry, stakeholder and academic needs. It gives practical advice about developing relationships with diverse partners and colleagues and managing the expectations of the various parties involved and on avoiding pitfalls. This book uses examples from Australian research projects, but it contains insights relevant to researchers all around the world.
ISBN: 9789811591914Publication Date: 2020-10-02 -
Story, Not Study: 30 Brief Lessons to Inspire Health Researchers As Writers
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If you sometimes dread writing, you’re not alone. Writing can be tough. Many researchers struggle mightily to put their work into words, only to end up with uninspiring papers that fail to resonate with readers or reviewers. The problem is usually not a lack of effort, but rather a lack of writing training. For many researchers, careful attention to writing is simply not part of their professional preparation. Because they haven’t honed the technical skills required to write persuasively, many health researchers rely on intuitive approaches to writing, leaving them with limited versatility. And when writing challenges inevitably present themselves, they lack an inventory of strategies to address them productively.
We aim to change that. This book spotlights the craft of scientific writing. Published advice on scientific writing typically shortchanges craft. Instead, it tends toward a checklist-style approach to meeting the minimum bar for publication. We think researchers can reach for a more ambitious goal: a memorable paper that shapes how readers think and feel about a problem that matters.
ISBN: 9783030713621Publication Date: 2021-04-27 -
Understanding Research Methods: An Overview of the Essentials
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In the eleventh edition of Understanding Research Methods: An Overview of the Essentials, Newhart and Patten leverage the principles of learning and content design to present the fundamentals students need to get started in research. Basics of quantitative and qualitative research are covered in short, independent topics and grouped into meaningful sections. A perennial bestseller for over ten editions, Understanding Research Methods focuses concisely on key concepts, and lessons in topics that are "chunked" to suit today's students. Each topic ends with suggestions for planning a research project by answering topic-specific prompts in a research planning journal. Topic Review exercises encourage active learning. Finally, Topics for Discussion suggest open-ended prompts that could serve as conversation starters in the classroom or online. The final Part of the book offers guidance and activities specific to writing a research report. This section can be used to support the development of project-based assignments for courses, or it can be used independently to support senior thesis projects, master's theses, dissertations, or articles for publication. Instructors, will appreciate the organization of Understanding Research Methods because it allows a great deal of customization and choice in which topics to cover and in what order to cover them, making it suitable for methodological training in a variety of courses and fields of study. Online digital materials support course development. New to this edition: Part introductions now include a part table of contents and list of keywords Newly expanded coverage of qualitative research New coverage on designing quantitative research Expanded material on sampling More simple graphs, charts, and illustrations emphasize and visualize Topic key points
ISBN: 9780367551186Publication Date: 2023 -
Where research begins : choosing a research project that matters to you (and the world)
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Self-Centered Research: A Manifesto -- Centered Research Is the Best Research -- How to Use This Book -- Introversion, First. Extroversion, Second. -- Try This Now: Write Here, Right Now -- Part 1: Become a Self-Centered Researcher -- Chapter 1: Questions -- A Topic Is Not a Question -- Try This Now: Search Yourself -- Try This Now: Let Boredom Be Your Guide -- Try This Now: Go Small or Go Home -- Sounding Board: Start Building Your Research Network -- You Have Questions -- Chapter 2: What's Your Problem? -- Don't Jump to a Question (or You'll Miss Your Problem) -- Stress- Testing Your Questions -- Try This Now: Run a Diagnostic Test on Your Questions -- Try This Now:Use Primary Sources to Educate Your Questions -- Try This Now: Make Your Assumptions Visible -- Try This Now: Identify the Problem That Connects Your Questions -- Sounding Board: Get Leads on Primary Sources -- You Have a Problem (in a Good Way) -- Chapter 3: Designing a Project That Works -- Primary Sources and How to Use Them (or, Fifty Ways to Read a Cereal Box) -- Try This Now: Treat Your Primary Source Like a Cereal Box -- Try This Now: Envision Your Primary Sources -- Connecting the Dots: Getting from Sources to Arguments -- Sources Cannot Defend Themselves -- Try This Now: Connect the Dots Using Your Sources (in Pencil) -- Taking Stock of Your Research Resources -- Try This Now: Decision Matrix -- Sounding Board: Is Your Decision Matrix Complete? -- Two Types of Plan B -- Scenario 1: Same Problem, Different Case -- Scenario 2: Same Topic, Different Project -- Setting Up Shop -- Try This Now: Get Money for Nothing (Prepare a Formal Research Proposal) -- Sounding Board: Share Your Proposal with a Trusted Mentor (Who Understands How Preliminary This Is) -- You Have the Beginnings of a Project -- Part 2: Get Over Yourself.
Chapter 4: How to Find Your Problem Collective -- Identify Researchers Who Share Your Problem -- Try This Now: Change One Variable -- Try This Now: Before and After -- Try This Now: Map Out Your Collective (Secondary Source Search) -- Rewriting for Your Collective -- Try This Now: Find and Replace All "Insider Language" -- Sounding Board: Does the Lay Version of My Proposal Make Sense? -- Welcome to Your Collective -- Chapter 5: How to Navigate Your Field -- Find the Problems within Your Field -- Read Your Field for Their Problems: Reimagining the "Literature Review" -- Try This Now: Start Your Own "What's Your Problem?" Bookstore(aka Organize Your Field into Problem Collectives) -- Try This Now: Change Their Variables -- Try This Now: Rewrite for Your Field -- Sounding Board: Find a Sounding Board in Your Field -- Welcome to Your Field -- Chapter 6: How to Begin -- Don't Worry. It's All Writing. -- Try This Now: Create "Draft 0" -- See What You Mean: Writing Draft 1 -- Try This Now: Move from 0 to 1 -- Perfection is Boring -- Sounding Board: Talk to Yourself -- Welcome to Self-Centered Research -- What's Next in Your Research Journey? -- Try This Now: Find a New Problem and Start a New Project -- Try This Now: Help Someone Else -- Acknowledgments -- Further Reading -- Index.
Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters. The hardest part of research isn't answering a question. It's knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else? This book will help you start your new research project the right way for you with a series of simple yet ingenious exercises. Written in a conversational style and packed with real-world examples, this easy-to-follow workbook offers an engaging guide to finding research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Read this book if you (or your students): have difficulty choosing a research topic know your topic, but are unsure how to turn it into a research project feel intimidated by or unqualified to do research worry that you’re asking the wrong questions about your research topic have plenty of good ideas, but aren’t sure which one to commit to feel like your research topic was imposed by someone else want to learn new ways to think about how to do research. Under the expert guidance of award-winning researchers Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, you will find yourself on the path to a compelling and meaningful research project, one that matters to you—and the world.
ISBN: 0-226-81735-0Publication Date: 2022 -
Cultural Contexts of Health: The Use of Narrative Research in the Health Sector
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Storytelling is an essential tool for reporting and illuminating the cultural contexts of health: the practices and behavior that groups of people share and that are defined by customs, language, and geography. This report reviews the literature on narrative research, offers some quality criteria for appraising it, and gives three detailed case examples: diet and nutrition, well-being, and mental health in refugees and asylum seekers. Storytelling and story interpretation belong to the humanistic disciplines and are not a pure science, although established techniques of social science can be applied to ensure rigor in sampling and data analysis. The case studies illustrate how narrative research can convey the individual experience of illness and well-being, thereby complementing and sometimes challenging epidemiological and public health evidence.
ISBN: 9789289051682Publication Date: 2016 -
Designing Clinical Research, 5e
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Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! For more than 30 years, Designing Clinical Research has set the standard as the most practical, authoritative guide for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other practitioners involved in all forms of clinical and public health research. Using a reader-friendly writing style, Drs. Warren S. Browner, Thomas B. Newman, Steven R. Cummings, Deborah G. Grady, Alison J. Huang, Alka M. Kanaya, and Mark J. Pletcher, all of the University of California, San Francisco, provide up-to-date, commonsense approaches to the challenging judgments involved in designing, funding, and implementing a study. This state-of-the-art fifth edition features new figures, tables, and design, as well as new editors, new content, and extensively updated references to keep you current. Covers clinical research in its many forms, including clinical trials, observational studies, translational science, and patient-oriented research. Presents epidemiologic terms and principles and advanced conceptual material in a practical and reader-friendly manner. Discusses key changes in the field, including confounding and directed acyclic graphs, surrogate outcomes and biomarkers, instrumental variables and Mendelian randomization, regression discontinuity designs, alternative data sources, AI and machine learning, pilot studies, as well as an update on P values and Bayesian analysis.. Covers modifications of classic randomized trials, such as pre/post, interrupted time series, difference-in-differences, stepped wedge and cluster randomized designs, as well as randomized trials in health systems. Adds new chapters on qualitative approaches to clinical research and on community-engaged research Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience Read directly on your preferred device(s),such as computer, tablet, or smartphone Easily convert to audiobook,powering your content with natural language text-to-speech
ISBN: 9781975174408Publication Date: 2023 -
Elements of Clinical Study Design Biostatistics and Research
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Elements Of Clinical Study Design, Biostatistics & Research is designed as a toolbox for biomedical researchers. The book's primary focus is on applications in clinical research, and will benefit students and researchers involved in the biomedical field. This book addresses the problems that many practitioners experience in choosing and implementing fit-for-purpose data analysis methods to answer critical inferential questions for binomial and count data. The book is written in simple language avoiding complex derivations and mathematical formulae allowing it to explain the most basic concepts of research methodology. Making good use of numerous tables, graphs and tips, this book demystifies the process for readers. 7 structured Chapters take the reader through the entire research process: choosing a question, designing a study, collecting the data, using univariate, bivariate, and multivariable analysis, and publishing the results. Each chapter discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the methods and suggests practical recommendations. An appendix on ethical research guidelines, along with a glossary and reference list comprehensively round up the book contents. It gives students and practitioners a multidisciplinary understanding of the concepts and techniques involved in designing, monitoring, and analyzing various types of studies. The book's balanced set of homework assignments and in-class exercises are appropriate for students and researchers in the areas of biostatistics, epidemiology, medicine, pharmacy, and public health.
ISBN: 9789815123791Publication Date: 2023 -
Foundations of Clinical Research : Applications to Evidence-Based Practice
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Become a successful evidence-based practitioner How do you evaluate the evidence? Is the information accurate, relevant and meaningful for clinical decision making? Did the design fit the research questions and was the analysis and interpretation of data appropriate? Here are all the materials you need to take your first steps as evidence-based practitioners...how to use the design, data and analysis of research as the foundation for effective clinical decision making. You'll find support every step of the way as you progress from the foundations of clinical research and concepts of measurement through the processes of designing studies and analyzing data to writing their own research proposal. Five Stars. "Best book I have read explaining research. Not too complicated - but very thorough."--Amazon Reviewer Simply the best. "This is such a valuable resource. Bought it for the DPT program I am enrolled in. I will keep it as an excellent resource. So well written."--Amazon Reviewer ... this is a great book." It explains concepts so well! Our professor changed to this book the next year. All the OTs and PTs in my PhD program have bought this book. This is in my keep forever collection. Everyone in my department has the book and only loans it out with strict instructions for its return."--Kelly A., Amazon Reviewer
ISBN: 0803661134Publication Date: 2020 -
Fundamentals of Clinical Trials, 5e
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This is the fifth edition of a very successful textbook on clinical trials methodology, written by recognized leaders who have long and extensive experience in all areas of clinical trials. The three authors of the first four editions have been joined by two others who add great expertise. A chapter on regulatory issues has been included and the chapter on data monitoring has been split into two and expanded. Many contemporary clinical trial examples have been added. There is much new material on adverse events, adherence, issues in analysis, electronic data, data sharing and international trials. This book is intended for the clinical researcher who is interested in designing a clinical trial and developing a protocol. It is also of value to researchers and practitioners who must critically evaluate the literature of published clinical trials and assess the merits of each trial and the implications for the care and treatment of patients. The authors use numerous examplesof published clinical trials to illustrate the fundamentals. The text is organized sequentially from defining the question to trial closeout. One chapter is devoted to each of the critical areas to aid the clinical trial researcher. These areas include pre-specifying the scientific questions to be tested and appropriate outcome measures, determining the organizational structure, estimating an adequate sample size, specifying the randomization procedure, implementing the intervention and visit schedules for participant evaluation, establishing an interim data and safety monitoring plan, detailing the final analysis plan and reporting the trial results according to the pre-specified objectives. Although a basic introductory statistics course is helpful in maximizing the benefit of this book, a researcher or practitioner with limited statistical background would still find most if not all the chapters understandable and helpful. While the technical material has been kept to aminimum, the statistician may still find the principles and fundamentals presented in this text useful.
ISBN: 9783319185392Publication Date: 2015 -
Practical Clinical Research Design and Application
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Every practicing physician, surgeon, advanced practice provider, and allied health professional interacts regularly with peer-reviewed literature: either while creating it, or consuming it. Despite the countless hours over many years spent in formal clinical training, many clinicians and clinician-authors lack advanced training or a working nuanced knowledge of research methodology and study design. Institutions have responded to this gap by reinforcing their ranks with statistical and methodological support in the form of data analysts, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians. However, clinicians are often unable to "talk the methodological talk" to guide them. This ultimately results in a stark disconnect between clinically relevant aspects of research and appropriate study design. Existing research methodology texts are largely written by statisticians, epidemiologists, and other academic public health experts. These are not easily digestible by practicing clinicians who need practical knowledge of this content to design their own research or enhance their understanding of the medical literature. Furthermore, these texts are often too detailed or "in the weeds" with regard to mathematics and statistical mechanics. Practical knowledge is not centrally located; rather, it is spread out among multiple books, articles, and other sources. This book is a concise, accessible, and practical guide for clinicians to read and reference when designing and reviewing clinical research. It is designed to be a standalone text, written "by a clinician, for clinicians" by a practicing clinical research expert who has had advanced formal training in research methodology, biostatistics, and epidemiology. Topics covered include descriptive and comparative statistics, power and sample size calculations, diagnostic tests, bias, and study design. In each chapter, consideration is given to study mechanics, advantages and disadvantages of each design, and illustrative analytical reviews of existing literature.
ISBN: 9783031583797Publication Date: 2024 -
Research Methodology for Allied Health Professionals
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Research Methodology is one of the essential subjects for Master's and Ph.D. students, which requires a comprehensive understanding of the subjects with their scientific application. This book would target all aspects, including detailed information on components of research methodology, to enable readers to conduct and write their research work. Thus, the book covers a larger audience in the allied health stream, focusing on university students and Ph.D. scholars. The language of the book is simple and lucid, with multiple illustrations for easy understanding. Ultimately the book would aim to prepare competitive health professionals to render the highest quality of research work and enable them to transform it into their clinical practice. With years of vast experience and research output, the project will have a great success and fruitful outcome.
ISBN: 9819989248Publication Date: 2024 -
Research Methods in Dentistry
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This classroom-tested textbook will assist dental students with their academic research activities and help them to be competitive in today's fast-growing research environment. It is designed as a core text for dental school classes such as Research Methodology and Scientific and Technical Writing, as well as Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training, but will also be a valuable resource for students and researchers in related fields, such as the medical sciences and biomedical engineering. The authors start the book by explaining key concepts and common approaches in dental research, both in basic science and clinical dentistry. They then familiarize readers with evidence-based research in dentistry and how to write a systematic review, explain the process of designing and presenting a proposal, discuss reporting results both in scientific and clinical research, and cover ethics in research, highlighting the significance of adherence to ethics both in animal as well as human studies.
ISBN: 9783030980276Publication Date: 2022 -
Survey Methods for Medical and Health Professions Education
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Offering a practical, six-step approach to effective survey design, delivery, and analysis, Survey Methods for Medical and Health Professions Education provides a real-world framework for successful research and evaluation using surveys. Focused on medical and other health professional education research, this unique text features quick-reference checklists, high-yield explanations, and case examples throughout, making it both a foundational reference and a go-to resource for all health professions educators and researchers who use surveys. Provides a detailed and practical discussion of the steps in survey methodology, along with just enough theory to inform common decisions. Includes numerous real-world examples, both simple and complex, covering the wide range of problems researchers are likely to face. Addresses issues of survey fatigue and addresses the challenge of how to get "good data." Features "Voice of Experience" boxes-pearls based on authors' actual experiences. Concludes each chapter with a checklist so readers can quickly ensure they have covered every necessary step of survey design and implementation. Contains a convenient glossary of terms. Offers guidance from expert international contributors in medical and health professions research. Summarizes the most current standards and understanding of survey research so that experienced and novice researchers alike can directly apply content to improve research rigor. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
ISBN: 0323695914Publication Date: 2021
Research 101: The Health Sciences
Breakdown the research process and terminology and familiarize yourself with available resources, services, and tools to aid in health sciences research.
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Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)
We have an eBook copy of this book by Thomas Mullaney (Stanford) and professor Christopher Rea (University of British Columbia) - see the book icon above for a link to digital access. If you're interested in learning more, or prefer visual learning, check out the talk and Q&A with the authors below hosted by Princeton University's GradFUTURES Forum.
