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Principles of research
Roger Watson
The basic equipment for research
• Passion
• Vision
• Patience
• Enthusiasm
The typology of researchers
• Starters versus finishers
See the ‘gap in the wall’
Know how to fill the gap
Developing a project
• Barriers– Research based practice or practice based
research?– Lack of focus– Wanting to change the world– But which bit will you change– Setting out to ‘prove’ something
• You may be wrong!
What if you have an idea…
• …but don’t know what to do?
• You’re not alone
• Get help from an expert...– …a nice one!
• BEWARE of
The research project
• What will you do?– Research question/aims
• Why will you do it?– Background literature and gaps to be filled
• How will you do it?– Design and methods
• How will you know that you’ve done it?– Analysis
• Reporting– The job’s not done until it’s written up
Developing a research question
A clear statement in the form of a question of what you set out to investigate, eg:
• Are practice nurses better than GPs at removing ear wax?
• Does continuing professional development improve nurses’ management skills?
• Why do older nurses leave the profession?
Research design
• Quantitative – Randomised controlled trials– Surveys
• Cross-sectional• Longitudinal
• Qualitative– Ethnography– Grounded theory
Research methods
• Quantitative – Randomised controlled trials
• Define primary outcome measure and data collection method
• How will randomisation be achieved?• How will blinding be assured?• How was sample size calculated?
Research methods (contd.)
• Quantitative (contd.)– Surveys
• Questionnaires– Postal– Telephone– internet
• Observations• Sample size considerations• Sampling procedures
Research methods (contd.)
• Qualitative– Interviews– Focus groups
• Recording• Transcribing
Pilot studies
Analysis
• Quantitative – Descriptive– Inferential – Multivariate
• Qualitative– Thematic analysis– Phenomenology
Reporting
• The four rules of writing– Read the guidelines– Write to targets (and count words)– Seek criticism– Treat a rejection as the start of the next
submission
Researchproject
