Research,
Development & Knowledge Transfer
Useful Links
Ethics
Central Office for Research Ethics Committees
NHS Research and Development Forum - information and discussion boards on all aspects of research in the NHS
Evidence Base
Bandolier - evidence based healthcare information in the UK and worldwide for both healthcare professionals and consumers
Cochrane database of research evidence - reviews etc.
Centre for Research and Dissemination: you can look up reviews of interventions and other useful research-related material. It has a link to the Cochrane library
National Research Register web site with searchable database to identify current ongoing funded research projects, and recently completed projects
National Electronic Library for Health - a digital library for NHS staff, patients and the public
Mental health data - a website bringing together various datasets produced by mental health services through different routes (e.g. policy, public health, statistics). Opportunity to employ secondary analysis on this data
Funding for Research
Online guide to completing research grant applications, including statistical power calculations - from St. George's Hospital Medical School
Latest information on health-related research funding
Methods and Measures
British Psychological Society's Psychological Testing Website
Social Science Information Gateway: Psychometrics, Statistics and Methodology - large collection of resources on research design and data analysis
Web site that enables you to search for psychological measures and tests, and also for reviews of them on the web.
Web site on quantitative analysis of qualitative data: information on what content analysis is, how it is done, with references to books on it and research studies that have used it.
Web site with resources and information on Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Web site with an overview and guide to Single Case research
Trent Regional Access Gateway website - Gateway to many Research-related web sites
RD Direct - contains information relevant to health research, whether you are an experienced researcher or a beginner. Contains useful links to other relevant sites
Research and Practice network - Salomons
Salomons Research And Practice network ( RAPID ) web board - RAPID members only.
Information about Salomons Research and Practice network - RAPID .
Service Users
INVOLVE - promoting public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research
Website of the Service Users Research Enterprise, based at the Institute of Psychiatry
Statistical Tests
Web site for help with choosing a statistical test and on important statistical concepts
Web site with step by step guides to doing all kinds of statistical analyses on SPSS and other statistics software
Web site of David C. Howell, author of ' Statistical Methods for Psychology' and 'Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences'
