Author: Sam Parsons (Sam Parsons)

Ask the Experts Roundtable

Ask the Experts Roundtable

Rounding off our ECR Series with a bang – with our Ask the Experts Roundtable. For the roundtable discussion, we were joined by senior researcher representatives from each of the Mental Health Networks. ECRs joined salon-style sessions with two of these impressive researchers where they could ask their burning questions about all things research, academia,...

Open Science: Funding partnerships for registered reports

Open Science: Funding partnerships for registered reports

Wrapping up our Open Science presentations was Katie Drax. Katie rounded off our talks with a summary of her qualitative research into funding partnerships for registered reports. Her talk was a powerful example of how transferable “open science” practices can be to qualitative research – this would be particularly relevant to the plus-fund projects. Katie...

Open Science: Qualitative research and preregistrations

Open Science: Qualitative research and preregistrations

Our second talk on the Open Science theme was by Dr Tamarinde Haven. Tamarinde continued our series of talks introducing preregistrations for qualitative research. It was fascinating to hear how an approach developed for and typically limited to quantitative research could be applied to qualitative studies. Her talk last December was especially timely, as her...

Open Science: Reducing Research Waste

Open Science: Reducing Research Waste

The first of our speakers was Professor Ioana Cristea Ioana kicked off our three talks by discussing research waste, particularly in clinical and mental health sciences. A key take-home message was that poor reporting of research has big knock-on effects on future research, including how biased our meta-analyses of intervention effects can be if we...

Funding advice and tips for early career researchers

Funding advice and tips for early career researchers

We hosted a fantastic online event aimed at ECRs in collaboration with the eight networks, in December 2020. There were two things ECRs wanted from a cross-network event: information on funding and networking. We packed the first event with presentations from four mental health research network representatives and eight MH network plus-fund recipients. The network...

How do I get funding for my research?: 5 questions to get you started

How do I get funding for my research?: 5 questions to get you started

After the first cross-network event on securing funding as an ECR in mental health Sam Parsons takes you through an exercise of 5 questions designed to get you thinking about approaching funding applications as an ECR, and importantly working out what you still need to know ahead of the second event in the series on networking.