This module was originally written by Professor Jenny Firth-Cousins and revised and updated by Judy McKimm, Visiting Professor of Healthcare Education and Leadership, Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School.  The module relates to area 7 of the Professional Development Framework for Supervisors in the London Deanery.

Teachers’ toolkit

Criteria for good practice in research supervision

A framework for writing up your research

References

Bordage G and Dawson B (2003) Experimental study design and grant writing in eight steps and 28 questions. Medical Education. 37: 376–85.

Brew A and Peseta T (2004) Changing postgraduate supervision practice: a programme to encourage learning through reflection and feedback. Innovations in Education and Teaching International. 41: 5–22.    

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Further reading and resources

Atkinson P and Pugsley L (2005) Making sense of ethnography and medical education. Medical Education. 39: 228–35.

Barbour R (2005) Making sense of focus groups. Medical Education. 39: 742–51.

Bleakley A (2005) Stories as data, data as stories: making sense of narrative enquiry in clinical education. Medical Education. 39: 534–40.

Brown A and Dowling P (1998) Doing Research/Reading Research. A model of interrogation for education. Falmer Press, London.

Chen F, Burstin H and Huntington J (2005) Commentaries – the importance of clinical outcomes in medical education research. Medical Education. 39: 350–1.

Cohen L and Mannion L (2000) Research Methods in Education (5e). Routledge, London.

Cote L and Turgeon J (2005) Appraising qualitative research articles in medicine and medical education. Medical Teacher. 27: 71–5.

Crotty M (1998) The Foundations of Social Research. Meaning and perspective in the research process. Sage, London.

Illing J (2007) Thinking About Research: frameworks, ethics and scholarship. Association for the Study of Medical Education, Edinburgh.

Land R (2004) Educational Development: Discourse, Identity and Practice. Open University Press/SRHE, Maidenhead.

Maynard D and Heritage J (2005) Conversation analysis, doctor-patient interaction and medical communication. Medical Education. 39: 428–36.

Potter J and Hepburn A (2005) Discursive psychology as a qualitative approach for analysing interaction in medical settings. Medical Education. 39: 338–45.

Silverman D (2001) Interpreting Qualitative Data: methods for analysing talk, text and interaction (2e). Sage, London.

Strauss A and Corbin J (1990) Basics of Qualitative Research: grounded theory procedures and techniques. Sage, London.

Wolcott H (2001) Writing Up Qualitative Research (2e). Sage, London.

Useful websites

• Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
• NHS National Patient Safety Agency and National Research Ethics Service 
• This is the Department of Health’s website with its latest calls for research funding, tenders and other funding opportunities
• This is the Department of Health’s Service Delivery and Evaluation (SDO) website funding large projects in and around service delivery
• Bupa Foundation  – This organisation funds health care research in set areas and provides annual awards for research and other service-related projects
• The Wellcome Trust website provides information about funding opportunities, research studentships and capital grants
• The Health Foundation funds research in a number of defined area which are reviewed periodically, funds academic appointments and also research fellowships

Other charities also have large funding streams for specific clinically based projects.