How to be a GREAT Peer Reviewer
Dementia Researcher Vodcast
09/25/22
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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
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We gratefully acknowledge the support of our funders: Alzheimer’s Association, Race Against Dementia, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
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Methods Matter - Oral Histories & Story Telling
September 15, 2022
•52m
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 One – Oral Histories & Story Telling
In expert corner – Dr Kahryn Hughes, from University of Leeds. Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor in Chief of Sociological Research Online, Convenor of the MA Qualitative Research Methods and a Senior Fellow for the NCRM.
In researcher ranch – Dr Katya Sion, Postdoctoral Researcher in Living-Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care at Maastricht University. Katya’s research is focused on quality of residential elderly care from the resident’s perspective and how to assess this. Her current postdoc position is aimed at the national valorisation of the narrative method ‘Connecting Conversations’, which was developed during her PhD.
Further reading referenced in the show:
- The Oral History Society – https://www.ohs.org.uk
- Books by Joanna Bornat – https://bit.ly/3RIJ9Qx
- Rachel Thompson Website – https://rachelintheoc.com
- Ken Plummer Documents of Life – https://kenplummer.com
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.
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The views and opinions expressed by guests in this podcast are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the producers, fu...
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Why, how and what it's like to work in hospital research
October 2, 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 four 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
- NIHR Your Path Into Research – https://bit.ly/3C4aBBV
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A transcript of this show, links and show notes and profile on all our guests are available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk.
If you prefer to watch rather than listen, you will find a video version of this podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website.
Leave us a tip:
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