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- School of Healthcare
- Support at your fingertips
- Christine Parker-Jones
- Donna Johnstone and Mike Bellhouse
- Presentation, clinic and workshop
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- How much Information is there in the World?
- The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world
- 128 million items on
approximately 530 miles of bookshelves.
- The collections include
- more than 29 million books and
other printed materials
- 2.7 million recordings 12 million
photographs
- 4.8 million maps, 5 million music
items
- 57 million manuscripts.
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- How much Information is there in the World?
- The world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per
year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on
earth.
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- A Megabyte is one million bytes 1,000,000
- A small novel
- A Gigabyte is a thousand Megabytes 1,000,000,000
- A small van filled with paper
- A Terabyte is a thousand Gigabytes
1,000,000,000,000
- A Petabyte is a thousand Terabytes
1,000,000,000,000,000
- 2 Petabytes: All US academic research libraries
- An Exabyte is a thousand Petabytes 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
- 2 Exabytes: Total volume of information generated worldwide annually.
- 5 Exabytes: All words ever spoken by human beings.
- A Zettabyte is a thousand Exabytes
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
- A Yottabyte is a thousand Zettabytes
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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- RDDirect -> Advice on
Research
- RDFunding -> Information on
Funding
- RDLearning -> Directory of Training
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- Historical perspective
- What we can do for you
- What information we hold
- How to find information within our resources
- How to keep it up to date
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- National Research Register
- NHS Research & Development Forum
- Online calculator
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- National Research Register
- NHS Research & Development Forum
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- Participant involvement
- Survey design
- Sampling
- Statistical Issues
- Quantitative/Qualitative research methods
- Questionnaire design
- Collaboration
- Intellectual property
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- Statistical Issues
- Are you familiar with the statistics you may need to use? If not,
consider enrolling on a suitable course. Probably be an in house course,
but RDLearning does list lots of other ones, including distance learning
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- Statistics Guide for Research Grant Applicants
- Online Statistics Textbook from Statsoft.com
- Statistical Sampling Terms
- Statistics glossary, from The Centre for Applied Statistics, Lancaster
University
- Comprehensive bibliography of medical statistics textbooks from ‘Medical
Statistics at a Glance’ (Blackwell Publishing)
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- General Assistance
- How to get started
- Searches - Criteria and free text
- Newsflash
- Register for updates
- Email support, FAQ, Student
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- Electronic application forms
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- Tips for Success
- If you have an idea, assume someone else has done it already.
Be your own severest critic.
- Accept and take advantage of the opportunities presented by advertised
priority areas for research.
- Be prepared to shift your research interest; do not remain wedded to the
research area of your MSc, MD or PhD thesis.
- Study the guidelines
- Don’t assume the research brief is wrong!
- Proposal must be methodologically sound
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- Tips for Success
- Ensure project is feasible - time
and £
- Focus on problem based research not specialty based research.
- For quality research seek quality funding.
- Do not mistake commercial drug trials for research.
- Multidisciplinary research stands the best chance of receiving support.
- Well written proposal
- Don’t give up!
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- General Assistance
- General support
- Checklists for costing a proposal
- Salary scales for University and NHS staff
- Grant evaluation checklist
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- Other Support :
- Special Editions
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- Support for Groups: Special Editions
- Allied Health Professionals
/ Cancer /
Children
- Community Practitioners and Health Visitors
- Complementary Therapies
/ Coronary Heart
Disease
- Diabetes Award / Fellowships and Studentships
- Mental Health / New Researchers / Nurses and Midwives
- Older People Awards / Open Opportunities
- Primary Care / Professional Bodies
- Travel Awards / Women’s Health
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- Use our website and our support desk
- Tell us what you want
- If you would like to know more:
- Christine Parker-Jones
- Telephone: 0113 2951122 or
- Email: info@rdinfo.org.uk
- www.rdinfo.org.uk
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