PISO and CIMO frameworks

Have you heard of PISO and CIMO before? Well, if not, they stand for population, intervention, study design, outcome; and context, intervent...

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Writing the methods chapter

Continuing our series on the write up of research, this time we turn our attention to methodology and method. In the methods chapter, we nee...

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What data goes in which chapters

I seem to be starting a series, exploring what goes where in the research write up, which we will continue by briefly summarising the data s...

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Research report chapters

I have been considering starting a series of help posts on the research write-up, exploring what goes where in the document. We will begin b...

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The general, the specific, and the outcome

As I tend to often use teaching cases, I explain to students how general evidence connects to case specifics, which then leads to a logical ...

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Research proposal alignment

One thing that I find many research students struggle to get their heads around is that all the elements of the research proposal for their ...

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Giving our power away

One regular piece of feedback I find I give my students is about giving their power away. This is, of course, based on the feedback I had fr...

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Keyword Search

I mentioned in the last post about search operators ( here ), which I picked up from an Academy of Management virtual conference session, in...

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Database search operators

It is so good to get a refresher on basic knowledge, isn't it?! I attended the Academy of Management virtual conference in 2020, and stu...

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Types of literature review

A colleague of mine was answering a conference RFP recently for a review paper presentation, and suddenly went blank on how to write up meth...

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Literature review resources

Over time, I have put together a list of resources for my supervisory students, to help them with researching, constructing and writing lite...

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