Research support toolkit (RSTK): Overview

Guide index

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1: Getting started

• I'm a new researcher
  • Training pre-requisites
  • Scholar role training
  • New researcher support
    • ANZCA support to emerging researchers
    • ANZCA mentoring scheme
    • Getting started in research workshops
  • Clinical research
  • Research engagement toolkit
  • Encouraging women in research
  • Encouraging indigenous medical researchers
  • What are the barriers to getting involved?
• Research & grant proposals
  • Choosing a research topic
  • Developing your research idea
  • What research is already happening
  • Creating a research proposal
  • Pilot and feasibility studies
  • Protocol templates
  • Creating a grant proposal
  • ANZCA Research Grants policy
  • CTN endorsement
• Budgeting & funding
  • Creating a research budget
  • ANZCA Research Grants
  • Other Australian funding
  • Other New Zealand funding
• Overseas funding
  • Hospitals
  • Mendeley funding
  • Other funding

2: Setting up

• Operational management
  • How research co-ordinators can help
  • Advice on developing a business case
  • Legal requirements
  • Trial registrations
• Setting up a clinical trial
  • CTN call for sites
  • Assessing site feasibility
• Additional resources
  • Australian Clinical Trials
  • Australian Clinical Trials Alliance
  • Books, journals & articles
  • Other useful tools
  • NIHR route-map
  • Research workflows/timeline

3: Conducting your research

• Existing literature & evidence
  • EBM Levels of evidence
  • Literature search
  • Systematic reviews/The Cochrane Library
  • Systematic Review Accelerator (CREBP)
  • Systematic Review Accelerator (SR-Accelerator)
  • Systematic review reporting
  • Covidence
  • OAIster
  • Co-Cites
  • Grey literature
  • Critical appraisal
• Gathering evidence
  • Clinical trials
    • Pre-requisites
    • Resources to support the undertaking of clinical trials
    • Toolkit for Investigator-initiated clinical trials
    • Good clinical research practice
  • Conducting survey research
  • Thematic analysis (qualitative method)
  • ANZCA survey research
  • Research collaboration
• ​Research data management
  • Data standards/FAIR data
  • Research data rights
  • Data management tools
  • Data transparency
• Collating the evidence
  • Data types and descriptive statistics
  • Confidence intervals
• Reporting the evidence
  • Research assessment
  • Recommendations for reporting
• Ethics & governance
  • Ethics approval
  • National Mutual Acceptance (NMA)
  • NSW & ACT
  • QLD, VIC & Mater Hospitals
  • SA Health
  • WA Health
  • NZ
  • Indigenous guidelines
  • Gender equity reporting
• Risk Management
  • Guidelines
• Compliance & regulations
  • Research integrity
  • Conflict of interest

4: Publishing & impact

• Writing a paper for publication
  • Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals
  • Ten simple rules for structuring papers
  • Author & reviewer tutorials
  • Referencing
  • Ethics for authors
  • Story, Not Study: 30 Brief lessons to Inspire Health Researchers as Writers
• Where to publish
  • Find the right journal your for your research
  • Author information (by publisher)
  • Open access (Australia)
  • Open access (Overseas - Plan S/UKRI)
  • Open research (by publisher)
  • Publication costs
• Conference presentations
  • Abstract writing
  • Abstract writing top tips webinar
  • Writing & presenting papers
• Legal deposit
  • National Library of Australia
  • States & Territories
• Institutional repositories
  • ANZCA Institutional Research Repository (AIRR)
  • Other research repositories
  • Research data repositories
• Promoting my research
  • ANZCA promotional tools
  • Other promotional tools
• Metrics & impact
  • General
  • Journal-level
  • Article-level
  • Author-level
  • Measuring research quality & impact

5: Research support

• New/emerging investigators
  • Support to emerging researchers
  • Getting started in research workshops
  • Research collaboration
  • Clinical practice training
  • Novice investigator grants
  • Study design
• Research/audit projects involving collaboration amongst trainees and trainee networks
  • ANZCA Scholar Role Subcommittee Statement
• Established researchers
  • How can I help?
  • Pilot Grants
• Research coordinators
  • Anaesthesia Research Co-Ordinators Network (ACRN)
  • Getting others involved
  • Annual Strategic Research Workshop (CTN)
    • ARCN workshop at CTN workshop
    • Annual networking event
  • Mailing list and newsletters
• New coordinators
  • Research coordinator mentoring scheme