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 If you’re an early career researcher in nursing or medicine, you’ve already got enough on your plate—balancing clinical work, study, and the steep learning curve of research. That’s exactly why we’ve put together the Health Library’s Researchers’ Toolkit for NHS staff . It’s a one-stop hub designed to make your research journey smoother, faster, and a whole lot less overwhelming. Whether you’re planning your first study, polishing a dissertation, managing an audit, working on a quality improvement project or trying to make sense of the world of publication, the Toolkit is packed with practical, bite-sized guidance to help you get there confidently. You’ll find: Information about the Health Library to help you prepare Help in constructing your research question Step-by-step support for literature searching, critical appraisal, and referencing Links to trusted resources tailored to healthcare research Help with writing and publishing Think of it as your research companion—always acc...

Researchers working with Keele or our NHS organisations can get support from the Health Library. Whether you are completing research, working for a post-graduate qualification or working on a work project, clinical audit, quality improvement or innovation project, we can help.     NHS Researchers can take a look at our Researchers Toolkit . Here you’ll find help and sign-posting on:   Developing your research question   Completing background reading and recent published research   How to refresh your digital skills   Preparing your project   Funding opportunities   Sharing your results   Keele researchers can check our Keele Researchers page for help on:   Finding resources   Training   Sign-posting to Keele researchers’ support services   External websites and support organisations   More Help   Check the training section   on our website for online induction, guides, tutorials, videos and how-to instr...

Do you work for one of our NHS partners: UHNM, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare, Clinical Commissioning Groups or GP practices in Staffordshire? Are you completing a piece of research or working on a specific project? Be it clinical research, audits, quality improvement, innovation projects, new service developments or your personal work. Did you know the library can help? We have resources and expertise that can help you to: Clearly identify your question Complete your background reading Refresh your information and digital skills Identify what has been published recently Prepare your project Think of funding possibilities Run your project Share your results Publish your research No matter how small or large, or how complicated or simple, we will try to help so that you can succeed.  Take a look at our NHS Researchers page for more information and get in touch if you need help.

The Health Library is here to support researchers working for our NHS partners. Research may include many different aspects of healthcare practice - clinical research, clinical audits, quality improvement, innovation, new developments and individual projects. We have many services which can help you to deliver your research project successfully. You can now get a quick overview of all the ways we can help you from our Support for NHS Researchers web page on our website. We include sections on: Being prepared Analysing your question Doing your background reading Refreshing your skills Checking what has already been published Preparing your project Getting funding Running your project Sharing your results Publishing your research So, no matter the size of your project - big or small - we are here to support you.

We collate a list of research published by our local healthcare researchers at Keele University and our NHS partners. Check our staff publications page for information about published papers by authors at Keele and our NHS partners.

If you are a researcher whether at Keele University or within the NHS organisations that we support, then the Health Library is here to help you. You can: Join the library if you work for our NHS organisations Use facilities, services and resources at the Health Library Access online resources, according to your membership type Use our online etutorials to start developing your information skills Book on our training courses for literature search training and support using our main resources Please check out Researchers page for more information.

You can browse a list of published research from our local staff on our Staff Publications web page Here we have gathered together some of the research published over the past year by our partner organisations: Keele University North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust University Hospital of North Staffordshire / University Hospitals of North Midlands Note: that this list is drawn from Pubmed, where the Author/Affiliation field includes our partner organisations.

Are you thinking of publishing your work but aren’t sure how to select a journal to submit to? Well now there is a handy checklist from the Think Check Submit campaign . Keep in touch with the campaign: Sign-up to their mailing list via their website Follow them on Twitter Check out the video below Think. Check. Submit. from Think. Check. Submit. on Vimeo .

Whether you are planning your research project or starting your first dissertation check out our Researchers Online Reference collection . This is a collection of ebooks that can help you to plan and develop your research.

Are you interested in the research that local staff publish? We have gathered together some of the healthcare-based research published by staff at Keele University and our NHS partners.

If you are starting your dissertation or looking to do your first research project. Then take a look at our Researchers Online Reference reading list . Here you’ll find a number of easily accessible ebooks to help you to get started with your project. Getting Started – learn how to plan your project Appraise the Evidence – support for literature searching and critical appraisal Evidence-based Medicine – the background to evidence-based medicine and how to carry it out Using Statistics – support specifically for health-based students Writing Up & Getting Published – help and guidance on writing up your dissertation

We have lots of helpful texts related to research and teaching in medicine. You'll find this guide at R 850 T2 .

We have many books that can help you to develop your research skills. You'll find How to Research by Blaxter et al at shelfmark Q.180.55.M4.B5

You can find Qualitative Data Analysis: a methods source book by Miles et al at shelfmark H 62 M4. Check H 62 for more research support.

You can find a list of published research from our local staff on our Staff Publications web page Here we have gathered together some of the research published over the past year by our partner organisations: Keele University North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust University Hospital of North Staffordshire / University Hospitals of North Midlands Note: that this list is drawn from Pubmed, where the Author/Affiliation field includes our partner organisations.

The British Library is currently running a Twitter based competition for all PhD authors and current doctoral students, inviting them to say why their doctoral research is/was important, using the hashtag #ShareMyThesis. Twitter competition -  https://twitter.com/search?f= realtime&q=%23sharemythesis& src=typd Competition web page -  http://www.bl.uk/share-my- thesis/ Can you summarise how important your research is in 140 characters or less?

You can find the latest list of published research from our local staff on our Staff Publications web page Here we have gathered together some of the research published over the past year by our partner organisations: Keele University North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust University Hospital of North Staffordshire

If you are a researcher either at Keele University or with one of our NHS partners we can support you in a number of ways. We have now added a list of research funding organisations to our researchers page .

If you are interested in the coming technological breakthroughs in healthcare then check out the National Horizon Scanning Centre . You can find reports and articles on the latest developments, including topics such as: pharmaceuticals medical devices and equipment diagnostic tests and procedures therapeutic interventions rehabilitation and therapy public health activities You can search for a topic or view material by specialty or even suggest a topic yourself.

If you are starting your dissertation, thesis or research project you should take a look at our collection of online ebooks that are available to help you. We have gathered together a collection : Get started – planning your project, background to research and methodology Appraise the Evidence – how to read a paper or complete a literature review Evidence-based Medicine – what is it? Using Statistics – need a little help? Try here Writing up and getting published – hints and tips to help you get it right You will need your Keele computer username and password or your NHS Athens login details to read the full-text of ebooks. For more help using ebooks, try our etutorial or watch the short video below.