The following training videos are available from the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West (ARC West) YouTube Channel (@NIHRARCWest).
Building ideas: Using creative and inclusive techniques in research
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2XJQq6C-go&t=18s
This webinar recording explores the use of creative methods in research. The speakers share practical examples of innovative techniques, reflections on their experiences and insights into the value of creative, inclusive approaches.
What you’ll learn:
🔹Why researchers use creative approaches
🔹Training and support available
🔹Examples of methods such as Play-Doh and LEGO with different age groups – not just young people
🔹Key learning and insights from real projects
Speakers include:
🔹 Dr Lis Grey – Behavioural Scientist, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West
🔹 Professor Debbie Watson – Professor of Child and Family Welfare, University of Bristol
🔹 Dr Ahlam Sawsaa – Research Fellow, NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration
This session is ideal for researchers, students, practitioners, public contributors and anyone interested in creative, participatory and inclusive approaches to research.
Nuts and bolts of searching
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QS1WiwofnE&t=56s
In this 10-minute presentation, Sarah Dawson (ARC West’s Senior Research Associate in Information Retrieval), talks about the nuts and bolts of literature searching including key elements such as BOOLEAN operators, truncation and phrase searching.
Questionnaire design and delivery
Links:
- Introduction to our training package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6GKjQe07K4&t=2s
- Writing questions – top tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksw6jKwSvkU&t=10s
- Administering your survey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEdipfqZY0Q&t=10s
- Preparing for analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkQR48Dq3s&t=10s
A series of four short presentations from Abby Sabey covering:
- When we might use a questionnaire and the strengths and weaknesses using of this approach
- How to get started with writing questions for a questionnaire and top tips for both writing questions and designing response options
- Options for delivering your survey or questionnaire and consideration of sampling, response rates, and generalisability
- Principles of coding questionnaire data and how to prepare for analysing your responses
Introduction to implementation and impact: Helping your research make a difference
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogKi_zmAov0&t=8s
This 10-minutes training video focuses on how to increase impact from research findings and implement them in the real world.
It’s presented by Clare Thomas and Sabi Redwood. They compare research findings to raw potatoes, which only come into their own when they’ve been made into something more useful and appetising like chips.
It is aimed at researchers but would be useful to anyone thinking about how research can make a difference to services and interventions.
Using Wikipedia to disseminate health research
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoV_S–fLLM&t=1s
This seminar explores how to use Wikipedia to disseminate research findings, with insights from Adam Harangozo.
Contrary to its negative reputation, Wikipedia has rigorous policies requiring editors for example to cite reliable sources for all information they add to the encyclopaedia. Besides the policies ensuring the quality of its content, Wikipedia’s medical articles are also continuously monitored and improved by a group of editors, many of them medical professionals themselves, under the name Wikiproject Medicine.
In this seminar, Adam shares insights on how to use Wikipedia to disseminate research findings.