Research Training Event 2 – Research Planning and Project Management

Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR), 23 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh – Wednesday 17^th September 2014

This second research training event aims to:

• Support practitioner-researchers with defining their research question(s)
• Provide resources for the initial planning stage of the research
• Introduce ethical considerations in more detail
• Outline further library resources

 

9:30-10:00	Arrival and Coffee
10:00-10:30	Criteria for success activity
10:30-11:00	Research Planning: Stories from the field – Janice Caine
11:00-11:30	Designing a research question
11:30-11:45	Coffee break
11:45-12:15	Aims and objectives in research
12:15-13:00	Methods for generating evidence – Sarah Keyes (Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
13:00-13:15	Meet the Mentors
13:15-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:00	Practice – Database searching and literature reviews – Marshall Dozier (Academic Liaison Librarian, University of Edinburgh)
15:00-16:00	An overview of research ethics – Stacey Bushfield (Lecturer, Management School, University of Dundee)
16:00-16:30	Summary and Close