Training Resources
In our Training Resources database below, you can browse resources by category or search by keyword. Resources in the following categories have been collated:
• Public Adviser Resources
• Evidence Synthesis Resources
• Literature Searching
• Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Resources for Researchers
• Ethics and Safeguarding
• General Resources
• Health Equity
• Improvement Science
• Grants
• Qualitative Research
• Computer Software
• Career Development
• Evaluation
| Description | Category | Access link |
|---|---|---|
| NHS Research & Development NorthWest for Early Careers Researchers | Career Development | Click here |
| NIHR offer a Variety of support for clinical research nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, social care professionals, doctors, dentists and clinical research practitioners. Find out more on NIHR supported career development here | Career Development | Click here |
| NVivo by QSR International: Mini-lectures on key features of NVivo (qualitative data management software) | Computer Software | Click here |
| SPSS OU: A free online course on getting started with SPSS. (SPSS Statistics is a software package used for interactive, or batched, statistical analysis.) | Computer Software | Click here |
| IEBH Systematic Review Accelerator - a suite of tools to speed up steps in the Systematic Review (SR) process. | Computer Software | Click here |
| Introduction to ethics: a free online course from Future Learn | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| Global Code of Conduct to Counter Ethics Dumping, Learning Materials from UCLan | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| HRA Ethics Approval, Learning Materials by the Health Research Authority | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| Safeguarding adults' - a free online course by Lancashire County Council | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| Delivered by Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare (HEE e-LfH) in partnership with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), the Safeguarding Children and Young People programme aims to meet statutory training requirements so that healthcare providers can ensure their teams are up-to-date with the issues surrounding Child Protection | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| Understanding GDPR, a free online course by Future Learn | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| Data security by e-learning for healthcare, a variety of free online courses | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| Equality, Diversity & Human Rights, free online courses by e-Learning for Healthcare | Ethics and Safeguarding | Click here |
| Midlands DSC Guide to Evaluation Design, Principles and Practice. This guide has been developed by the NHS Midlands Decision Support Centre (DSC), for the NHS Midlands Decision Support Unit (DSU) Network. It is written for people at all levels with an interest in evaluation – whether you are thinking about commissioning an external evaluation or conducting your own evaluation in-house”. Ref: https://www.strategyunitwm.nhs.uk/midlands-decision-support-network | Evaluation | Click here |
| Systematic reviews training by Cochrane | Evidence Synthesis Resources | Click here |
| Evidence essentials by Cochrane, an accessible introduction to health evidence and how to use it to make informed choices | Evidence Synthesis Resources | Click here |
| NIHR evidence summaries - High quality summaries of findings so that health and social care research can be used by all members of society | Evidence Synthesis Resources | Click here |
| Systematic reviews training from the University of Central Lancashire - a 12 week Systematic Review Module (annual programme) | Evidence Synthesis Resources | Enquiries: Colette Miller: CMiller5@uclan.ac.uk |
| Lancaster University LibGuide – Systematic Reviews: Introduction and Pathway for researchers starting a Systematic Review | Evidence Synthesis Resources | Click here |
| Understanding Health Research A tool for making sense of health studies | General Resources | Click hereClick here |
| NIHR courses - a variety of courses from `Accessible Information Standards' to `Working with Families in Transition | General Resources | Click here |
| Future Learn online courses - A variety of online courses relevant to research, created by universities, businesses and specialist organisations: | General Resources | Click here |
| NIHRtv - The official National Institute for Health Research YouTube channel | General Resources | Click here |
| NIHR Research Design Service by NIHR: Providing design and methodological support to health and social care researchers in the North West to develop grant applications to the NIHR and other national peer-reviewed funding programmes | Grants | Click here |
| Support for research innovations in health and social care by the Innovation Agency / Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast | Grants | Click here |
| Grants for community organisations by Councils for Voluntary Services (CVS). CVS have extensive experience in the management of numerous grant programmes to support voluntary sector / community sector organisations. See for example: Liverpool Council for Voluntary Services | Grants | Click here |
| Grants for community organisations from Local authorities: Local authorities provide grant aid advice for community projects and charities. See for example the following links | Grants | Click here |
| Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) Statement from the Equator Network | Health Economics | Click here |
| NHS economic evaluation database handbook | Health Economics | Click here |
| Developing NICE guidelines, Process and methods: Incorporating economic evaluations | Health Economics | Click here |
| Students guide to health economics from Sage Publishing | Health Economics | Click here |
| University of York, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD), Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE) and the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHSEED) | Health Economics | Click here |
| University of York, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) guidance for undertaking reviews in health care: Intro to economic evaluations | Health Economics | Click here |
| Health Impact Assessment Toolkit (HIAT) from ARC NWC and Lancaster University | Health Equity | Click here |
| Health Equity training - e-training courses and case studies on health inequalities from Public Health England | Health Equity | Click here |
| Health Equity Assessment Tool (HEAT) from Public Health England | Health Equity | Click here |
| Resources for reducing health inequalities by Public Health England | Health Equity | Click here |
| Health inequalities resources hub by Public Health England (designed for NHS staff) | Health Equity | Click here |
| Resources for reducing health inequalities (for GPs) from RCGP | Health Equity | Click here |
| Reducing health inequalities through new models of care: Resources for NHS staff from the Institute of Health Equity | Health Equity | Click here |
| Local action on health inequalities: Resources for local government from gov.uk | Health Equity | Click here |
| Tools and resources for measuring health inequalities designed to support CCGs (Clinical Commissioning Groups) | Health Equity | Click here |
| Tools and resources (including blogs, reports and audio clips) on health inequalities put together by The Kings Fund | Health Equity | Click here |
| ARC Yorkshire & Humber has produced a series of videos covering behaviour change techniques, realist methods for design and evaluation, and identifying barriers to improving clinical practice | Improvement Science | Click here |
| EUnetHTA methodological guideline - Process of information retrieval for systematic reviews and health technology assessments on clinical effectiveness | Literature Searching | Click here |
| PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews | Literature Searching | Click here |
| PRESS Checklist for critical appraisal of search strategies | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions - 4.S1 Technical Supplement to Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Health Education England – How to Search the Literature Effectively online course (free to access, no need to register) | Literature Searching | Click here |
| University of Lancaster Libguide: Systematic literature searching | Literature Searching | Click here |
| The InterTASC Information Specialists' Sub-Group Search Filter Resource | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Summarized Research in Information Retrieval for HTA (SuRe Info) - a web resource that provides research-based information relating to the information retrieval aspects of producing systematic reviews and health technology assessments. | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Ovid database platform training videos | Literature Searching | Click here |
| EBSCOhost database platform tutorials | Literature Searching | Click here |
| University of Salford Library - Creating a systematic search history in EBSCO: | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Cochrane Library Online Training Hub | Literature Searching | Click here |
| ProQuest database platform LibGuide | Literature Searching | Click here |
| PubMed online training resources | Literature Searching | Click here |
| EndNote Training materials | Literature Searching | Click here |
| London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library and Archives blog: Removing duplicates from an EndNote library | Literature Searching | Click here |
| McGill University – Updating database searches | Literature Searching | Click here |
| RefWorks reference management software training videos | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Mendeley reference management software guide | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Zotero reference management software quick start guide | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Bodleian Libraries – Reference Management software comparison table | Literature Searching | Click here |
| Training for researchers who wish to involve patients / public / communities in research from NIHR | Patient and Public Involvement Resources for Researchers | Click here |
| Resources for co-producing research in health and social care from NIHR | Patient and Public Involvement Resources for Researchers | Click here |
| Making every contact count', Resources for health and social care staff from Health Education England | Patient and Public Involvement Resources for Researchers | Click here |
| Variety of PPI resources for applicants to NIHR programmes from NIHR Involve | Patient and Public Involvement Resources for Researchers | Click here |
| Top ten partnership priorities from the James Lind Alliance | Patient and Public Involvement Resources for Researchers | Click here |
| Free research-related training for public advisers | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| Free training for researchers who wish to involve public / patients | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| A map of resources for co-producing research in health and social care | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| Information for members of public / patients interested in taking part in research studies from NIHR (The National Institute for Health Research) | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| Improving healthcare through clinical research from Future Learn. A Free online course in which students can find out how medical treatments are discovered, tested and evaluated to improve healthcare for all | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| Evidence summaries from NIHR. High quality summaries of findings so that health and social care research can be used by all members of society | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| Understanding health research offer a variety of free online courses | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| Guidance from the NIHR INCLUDE Project that summarises what an under-served group is, provides a roadmap suggesting intervention points to improve inclusion, examples of under-served groups and example barriers to inclusion. It offers a suggested framework of questions to guide the deliberations of funders, researchers and delivery teams as they design and assess clinical research proposals, and ends with examples of good practice and other resources to guide teams seeking to engage with, and improve inclusion of, under-served groups in clinical research | Public Adviser Resources | Click here |
| Qualitative research free online course from Future Learn | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Overview of qualitative research methods, a free YouTube video from Yale University | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Introductory lecture on Thematic Analysis, a free YouTube video from Braun and Clarke | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Fundamentals of qualitative research - data analysis. A free YouTube video from Yale University | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Scientific rigour in qualitative research, a free YouTube video from Yale University | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Mini-lectures on key features of NVivo (qualitative data management software) from NVivo QSR International | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Conducting Interviews, a free YouTube video by Southampton Educational School | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| How to conduct interviews remotely, a free YouTube video from Dipex Charity | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| How to conduct focus groups remotely, a free YouTube video from Dipex Charity | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Qualitative research during a pandemic, a free YouTuve video from Dipex Charity | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Selecting participants, a free YouTube video by Southampton Educational School | Qualitative Research | Click here |
| Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS Checklist) | Health Economics | Click here |
| Descriptive Statistics | Quantitative Research/Medical Statistics | Click here |
| Inferential Statistics | Quantitative Click here Research/Medical Statistics | Click here |
| Systematic reviews and process evaluation recording | Evidence Synthesis Resources | Click here |
