flow charts can be detailed, but the point is to make it so that it is easy for someone else to read.

1. Turn your idea into a research question

2. Review the literature

3. Design the study and develop your method(s)

4. Writing your research proposal

5. Issues about funding

6. Obtain ethical and Trust approval

7. Collect and collate the data

8. Analyse the data and interpret findings

9. Impact of your research on clinical practice

10. Reporting and dissemination

• First stages

• Discuss your ideas with others

• Other issues to consider

• Where do I start?

• Libraries: contacts

• Links to useful websites

• Systematic Reviews

• Participant Involvement

• Survey Design

• Sampling

• Statistical issues

• Qualitative and Quantitative Research

• Questionnaire Design

• Collaboration

• Intellectual property

• Starting your research proposal

• Peer Review

• Sponsor Issues

• Further help

• Advice about funding

• Project planning

• NHS costs and costings checklist

• Salaries

• Paying consumers involved in research

• Why Ethics are so Important?

• Contact your Trust R&D Office/RDSU

• Know your Ethics Committee

• Prepare your information sheets and consent forms

• Research Governance

• Issues to consider

• Conduct Issues

• Data Protection and Confidentiality

• Suggested reading

• Data analysis

• Interpreting Data

• Suggested reading

• Evidence-Based Practice

• Research evidence

• Commercial Aspects/By-products of Research

• Writing up Research

• Disseminating Research

• Presenting for Conferences or Seminars

• Your Duty to Inform

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