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Education and Training
The TRESA unit delivers a range of education sessions designed to enhance workforce knowledge and understanding of research, including:
- What is the difference between audit / service evaluation and research
- Developing a research question and designing a research study
- Writing a research protocol
- Research and consent
- Writing Participant Information Sheets
- Qualitative research methodology
- Access to data for research: What data can a HHS provide; how to access THHS data; general data custodian requirements
- Statistics for research
- Why is ethics important? History of research and ethics.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples – considerations when conducting research
- Information technology considerations in research
- THHS HREC application & submission process
- THHS RG application & submission process, including legislative framework around conducting research in Australia
Two-day researcher skills course
Want to know more about research? Legislative framework around conducting research in Australia; Design and development of a research study; Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and Queensland Health Research Governance (RG) application processes? Consider attending the THHS two-day researcher course held at the Townsville University Hospital. The event is free and open to all researchers and those interested in research. Dates for this event to follow.
Twelve-week researcher skills course
The 12-week researcher skills course replicates the two-day researcher skills course but is held over a 12-week period, for 1 hour/week.
Cost: Free and open to all researchers and those interested in research
The next 12 week course is expected to commence March 2020.
Register your interest to attend an education session by emailing {"ct":"hKXHtAYrIT6xSk0wtROsKSygXP6gbdL9PJabXzscMtI9ASvfYQLPau9FolmvaPaz","iv":"847b34e51907fa7a0c2c4e58338dee18","s":"22f3fd0be30ed35f"}
The other option is:
- Delivery of intensive, speciality/field specific targeted education sessions to individual Townsville HHS departments
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