Research process flow chart

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 . Implications of your research for clinical practice and identifying how findings could be put into practice

10. Report on the study and disseminate the findings

•	First stages
•	Discuss your ideas with others
•	Other issues to consider

•	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

•	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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