Faculty Research and Collaborative Workshops Overview

Outline of Sessions

• Power Point Overview of Topic (15 minutes)
• Activities and Discussion (45 minutes)

Sessions

• "I've got a great idea for a study..."
  • Designing methods, developing research questions/hypotheses...
• "I want to ask, but how do I phrase the question?"
  • Qualitative and quantitative interview and survey development, selecting participants...
• "I have all this data...now what?"
  • Selecting software packages, data management, validity & reliability...
    
• "p<.05 is good, right?  Interpreting Output (What they didn't teach you in grad school)"
  • Grad school courses tend to either be math based or research consumer based.  How do we understand our quantitative and qualitative analyses?
• "O.K. Study is done...now to publish it -- why does every journal seem to have different requirements?"
  • Selecting a journal, structuring the manuscript, basics of APA
• "Manuscript Revisions...Ugh!"
  • Dealing with reviews, revisions, and rejections
• Collaborative Research and Grant Writing Discussion Session
  • Discussion and creation of teams or working groups for present and future projects

RTP Toolkit

Calls for Papers/Research Opportunities