Where: B112
Time:  1.00 to 3.00pm
Presenter:  Dr Rob Heard

Limited to 19 Places

SPSS is one of the large statistics programs licensed for Faculty computers.  The first workshop is about how to set up SPSS data sheets.  It will cover data layout in SPSS; types of variables, variable settings, naming and labelling variables, when and how to add value labels to variables, creating new variables from existing ones using COMPUTE and RECODE, saving data sets, and importing and exporting data from Excel.
The second workshop will cover basic SPSS analysis operations; SPSS Output and Syntax windows, descriptive statistics, cross tabulation tables, and selecting particular cases using SELECT CASES and IF commands

Where:  B030
Time:  2.00 to 3pm
Presenter:  Prof Richard Madden

Open to all RHD students and academic staff across the Faculty

Richard Madden chairs the (joint) NSW Cancer Institute and NSW Population and Health Services Research Ethics Committee.  The Committee focuses on submissions that deal with patient information, not clinical trials.  The Committee is a lead Ethics Committee for NSW Health, and can approve multi-site studies within the NSW public health system.  The Committee deals with all research proposals to the Centre for Health Record Data Linkage (CHeReL).
Richard will discuss the framework for Ethics Committees and their structure.  He will then describe some key aspects of research proposals that the Committee pays attention to, and the common pitfalls.

Where:  F126
Time:  1.00 to 3.00pm
Presenters:  Rosalie Thomson and Marie McInnes

Limited to 20 Places

This workshop will aim to examine the purpose of a literature review, as well as its structuring, synthesising and evaluating the literature.
Workshop participants should bring along 4 to 5 research articles and a literature review from their own field of study.

Where: B112
Time:  1.00 to 3.00pm
Presenter:  Dr Mary Lam

Limited to 19 Places

This workshop will cover a introduction to MS Access, including a basic overview on how to design a database and table.  The second workshop will cover table and form construction, queries and running reports.

Where:  B030
Time:  2.00 to 3.00pm
Presenter:  Prof Mark Onslow

Open to all RHD students and academic staff across the Faculty

Obtaining substantive external research funding has all sorts of direct and indirect benefits to a university career.  In principle, it is a quite straightforward process.  You write a short document asking for a pot of money, send it off, and that’s about it.
Last year, for example, 683 research teams did that and were awarded a total of $383,447,872 in NHMRC Project Grant funding.  No problem!  Not for them anyway.  Only a problem for the 2,984 teams who did that and got nothing.  So, what did they do wrong?
Except for the usual tail-enders, nothing much really.  It is what the 683 successful teams did right that we need to focus on.  And that is what we will cover during this seminar.

Where:  F126
Time:  1.00 to 3.00pm
Presenters:  Rosalie Thomson and Marie McInnes

Limited to 20 Places

This work covers overall organisation of your thesis and general issues of reader / writer communication.

Workshop participants should bring along a draft of any part of your thesis, as well as your contents page / thesis outline.

Where: B112
Time:  1.00 to 3.00pm
Presenter:  Prof Deborah Black

Limited to 19 Places

Will answer the following questions:

• Why do you need statistics in your thesis?
• How do you quantify and measure variables to answer your research question?
• What sort of variables will you need and how will you collect them?

Where:  B030
Time:  2.00 to 3.00pm
Presenter:  Prof Glen Davis
Open to all RHD students and academic staff across the Faculty

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Where:  F126
Time:  1.00 to 3.00pm
Presenters:  Rosalie Thomson and Marie McInnes

Limited to 20 Places

This workshop will cover an introduction to the structure and language of scientific journal articles, as well as cover issues to do with getting published, such as choosing the journal, authorship, and reviewers feedback.

Workshop participants should bring along a draft of an article you’re working on and style guides of relevant journals.

Where: F126
Time:  1.00 to 3.00pm
Presenter:  Prof Glennys Howarth

Limited to 19 Places

Are you drowning in wonderfully rich qualitative data and have no idea what to do next?  If so, this workshop is for you.  It will provide guidance on how to analyse qualitative data, how to code and interpret your data, how to prioritise and select themes, and, ultimately, how to develop theory.
The workshop will begin with a talk on the nature of qualitative data analysis and will give you some ‘hands-on’ experience of coding and interpretation.