How to be a GREAT Peer Reviewer
Dementia Researcher
09/26/22
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In this podcast we share top tips on how to avoid being Reviewer #2. Our guests talk through the importance (and flaws) of the peer review process, how they approach it, how you can write papers to help avoid a bad review, and the benefits of getting involved. Adam Smith, Dementia Researcher Programme Director talks with Dr Yvonne Couch, ARUK Research Fellow and Associate Professor at University of Oxford, Dr Isabel Castanho, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Dr Martina Bocchetta, Senior Research Fellow at University College London. -- Peer review is essential in assisting editors in selecting high quality, novel research papers, and to ensure errors are corrected. Though the peer review process still has some flaws, a more suitable screening method for scientific papers has not yet been developed (UK Research & Innovation has announced a review of the peer review system). So... for now we’re stuck with it (although our recent survey has identified some ways that the process could be improved e.g. blinding, compensating reviewers etc.). -- Peer review training courses: Nature Masterclass: https://bit.ly/3C3tDd7 Wiley Training: https://bit.ly/3r6FYGU Elsevier Academy: https://bit.ly/3BEFf4X RC Psych Training: https://bit.ly/3LCqfZO Fundamentals of peer review: https://bit.ly/3g4WPaT -- You can find out more about our panellists, and their work on our website. There you will also find a full transcript: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk Perfect to watch rather than listen? A video version of this podcast is available on our YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/qSvndN_nO5k -- Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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Methods Matter - Surveys & Questionnaires
September 12, 2022
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The Methods Matter Podcast - from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don't know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research. In this second series Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Donncha Mullin from The University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions! Episode Four – Surveys and Questionnaires In expert corner - Dr Petra Boynton. Petra is a Social Psychologist, specialising in International Health Research from a critical perspective. Over the past 20 years she has taught, supervised, and undertaken research across the social and health sciences and development within university and community settings as well as writing extensively Academic life, including publishing a book called ‘Being Well in Academia’, and being an Agony Aunt. In researcher ranch – Dr Larissa Bartlett, who is an ISLAND Research Fellow at the Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre at the University of Tasmania. Larissa’s PhD focussed on the promises and challenges of workplace-delivered mindfulness interventions for employee health and performance. Now Larissa leads the ISLAND Study, a large, 10-year prospective public health cohort study with nested interventions targeting modifiable dementia risk factors at population-level in adults aged 50+. Further reading referenced in the show: Sage Video Tutorials - https://methods.sagepub.com/Search/Results Scribbr Guide - https://www.scribbr.co.uk/research-methods/surveys/ NCRM Survey Guidance - https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/search/?q=surveys Julie Ponto, Understanding and Evaluating Survey Research - https://bit.ly/3RHZRzp BMJ Hands On Guide to Questionnaires - https://www.bmj.com/content/328/7452/1372 Write a Questionnaire, a Little Quick Fix - https://bit.ly/3cSBroj -- Read more about our guests and listen to more great podcasts at: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community - methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitative, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods. https://www.ncrm.ac.uk -- This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.
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Why, how and what it's like to work in hospital research
October 3, 2022
•58m
Recorded LIVE on Twitter Spaces on Wednesday 28th September 2022. Primarily aimed at Clinicians and Healthcare Professionals, through this discussion we hope to share some insights as to the different ways to become involved in clinical research, why you might want to do that, and what that might look like. Adam Smith, Dementia Researcher Programme Director hosts this informal discussion with five people working within the NHS and in research to share their experience. Guests are Dr Ross Paterson and Dr Alex Tsui all from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Brady McFarlane from Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Antoinette O’Connor from Tallaght University Hospital, Ireland, and Dr Emma Broome from Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre. -- Below are links to some of the resources mentioned during the chat: Careers Webinar - https://bit.ly/3CsOCq4 Trials information - https://bit.ly/3UNIbVs Dr Anna Volkmer Blogs - https://bit.ly/3Eb80ZU NIHR Clinical Careers Funding - https://bit.ly/3y8hpxr Alz Forum Grants - https://bit.ly/3RuQBy7 Dementia Research Careers Festival – https://bit.ly/3LWDIMl Dementia Researcher Meet the Researchers - https://bit.ly/3LWDIMl Association of British Neurologists - https://www.theabn.org/# Royal College of Nursing Research Careers - https://bit.ly/3E6KvRC -- Guest mini bios Dr Emma Broom Bio - https://bit.ly/3SREL2q Dr Alex Tsui Bio - https://bit.ly/3CsTpYx Dr Brady McFarlane Bio - https://bit.ly/3CaOhbe Dr Ross Patterson Bio - https://bit.ly/3CaOhbe Dr Antoinette O’Connor Bio - https://bit.ly/3LYxjQx -- Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode. This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support. -- A full transcript of the podcast can be found on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/podcast or find a video version on our YouTube Channel with closed captions at https://www.youtube.com/dementiaresearcher
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