Researching

Essential knowledge for achieving research best practice

Program Courses Online Duration Offline Duration Released Status
Research Integrity

Sorting right from wrong in today's increasingly complex global research world is not a simple task. This internationally developed program is designed to provide researchers with a better understanding of their obligations and responsibilities, along with practical advice on how to deal with the challenging situations in which they may find themselves.

Research Integrity is supported by a Supplement giving full details on how it can be used by institutions to form a blended program that responds to NIH and NSF funding requirements.

Each course comprises 4-5 hours of online content plus an additional 25-32 hours of associated activities.

 5 22.5 hours 25-32 hrs/course Jul 2012 Published
Statistical Methods for Research

Statistical Methods for Research is designed to provide graduate students with a strong foundation in statistics, covering key areas such as confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and statistical modeling.

The program provides the vast majority of Master's level students with the statistics they will need to complete their research reports, and provides doctoral students with the statistics they need to understand and evaluate the statistical test models they will use in their research.

Taking a cross-disciplinary approach and compatible with all major statistics packages, this program will be rich with scenarios, practical applications and interactive statistical models and will be supported by optional peer-to-peer online forums and interaction.

The course is based on the design of a highly successful course from the University of Reading, UK, that has recorded an average improvement of 122% in students' performances.

 5 12.5 hours TBC Jul 2014 Collaborate
Professional Skills for Research Leaders

Professional Skills for Research Leaders is designed to help independent researchers enhance their leadership, management and engagement strategies to increase their competitiveness and effectiveness.

Completing the program will help faculty and established researchers to improve their grant writing skills, increase their research impact, ensure robust collaborations, lead productive research teams and projects, communicate across a range of media and extend their reach and influence.  

It encourages the development of transferable skills and can assist universities in meeting funder compliance requirements. The program may also support high-talent doctoral candidates nearing completion of their candidature and post doctorates.

 6 7.5 hours TBC (minimum 20 hours) Jan 2014 Collaborate