These pages have links to help and guidance to support you, whether you are:
- Studying
- Already involved in research
- Would like to get involved in research
We can help with literature searches, and provide support and training for searching databases and other online information sources.
For more information please see our Searching & Enquiries section on our homepage.
Are you interested in;
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Learning more about the research projects that are happening within the Trust |
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Offering your service users the opportunity to participate in research projects |
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Getting involved in high quality research, either as a participant or a researcher |
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Career development opportunities in research such as training and qualifications |
The research interest group is an informal networking meeting open to all staff with an interest in research. Meetings are held quarterly, and will be virtual for the forseeable future. There is also an e-mail group where information on courses and development opportunities are circulated.
The next meeting will be: TBC
For more information or to be added to the e-mail group, please contact:
The idea of writing for publication may seem daunting at first, but it will be worth the effort and there are different ways to get started.
Writing a book review is one way. You could also write up a literature review without getting the same approvals that you need for other types of research. Service evaluations, although they need to be registered with our Research & Development Department, similarly, do not need further approval for you to be able to publish. What are you waiting for?!
Don’t forget that you do need to ensure that anything that could identify an individual would need appropriate consent and permissions.
General - Resources
Beginers guide to getting published
Authors' How To Guides (Emerald Publishing Group)
Writing for Publication (Wiley guide)
How do I submit a paper to a scientific journal? (Science & Development Network)
European Medical Writers Association
EQUATOR Network - Enhancing the Quality & Transparency of Health Research
Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips (Guardian)
Writing Skills
Instructions for Authors
Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences (University of Toledo)
Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (ICMJE)
Publishers
Links to publishers' websites (MedBioWorld)
Copyright & Intellectual Property
We produce a quarterly update of Trust staff publications - if you have had something published which isn't listed or you know of an article that we've missed, please let us know.
Citing References (University of Reading)
Referencing@Portsmouth: An Interactive Guide to Referencing (University of Portsmouth)
Harvard Referencing (Anglia Ruskin University)
We provide helpful user guides for EndNote reference management software. More information can be found here.
Critical Appraisal - General
Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP UK)
List of Critical Appraisal resources (ScHARR)
Critical Appraisal - Checklists
Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE)
Critical Appraisal (Centre for Evidence Based Medicine)
Critical Appraisal: Notes and Checklists (SIGN)
Critical Appraisal Worksheets (BestBETs)
Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT)
PRISMA - Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Understanding Health Research - A tool for making sense of health studies
The Trust R&D team intranet site is currently under development. If you would like to know more about research at the Trust, please visit their internet pages