Pre-Congress Workshop

EADPH Pre-Conference Workshop on Research Methodology

To be held at the Faculty of Dental Medicine, Ovidius University, Constanta on Tuesday, 7 and Wednesday, 8 September 2010

This workshop aims to help colleagues to improve their study design prior to embarking on research projects. Six leading European researchers will give a series of short presentations and will facilitate working groups. There are places for up to 24 participants. The workshop has been generously sponsored by GABA international.
There is no registration fee and hotel accommodation, for the nights of Monday, 6 and Tuesday 7 September and meals will be provided at no cost to the participants. In addition 5 travel awards sponsorshiped by GABA are available to pay the travel and any visa costs of participants, within Europe other than from Western Europe, and Romania.

Participants are invited to bring any study designs that they have been developing or scientific papers that they have written but not submitted for publication with them. The teachers will be happy to offer advice as long as they have been pre-warned and been sent the relevant documents by 20 August 2010.

For further details and/or to make an application for a place at the workshop please e-mail Professors Corneliu Amariei (amariei@oralhealth.ro) and Kenneth Eaton (kenneth.a.eaton@btinternet.com) before 1 July 2010.

Those who wish to become a member of EADPH from small and middle-income countries may require payment of membership fee by Borrow Foundation for a period of 5 years. To achieve this we invite you to send your membership registration form to membership officer Marc van Steenkiste your registration form which can be found on EADPH website.

Workshop registration form can be downloaded from here (Word Document) and will be sent to: amariei@oralhealth.ro

Please note - All participants will be required to attend all sessions

The programme for the workshop is as follows:

Monday, 6 September

Get together dinner for lecturers and participants at Hotel Malibu

Tuesday, 7 September

09.00 Introduction to and aims of the workshop - Ken Eaton

09.30 How to access literature - Part 1 Theory - Ken Eaton

10.15 How to access literature - Part 2 Practice - Roos Leroy

11.00 Coffee break

11.20 Research questions and appropriate study designs - Dominique Declerck

12.30 Participants analyse past research questions and designs - In three groups*

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Plenary – groups report back - Robert Eichler

15.00 Ethics and Consent - Zdenek Broukal

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Groups develop study set-up for proposed research questions - In three groups

Dinner

Wednesday, 8 September

09.00 Protocols and how to write them - Ken Eaton

Groups write protocols for their research questions - In three groups
* Group 1 – Epidemiology, leaders Zdenek Broukal and Dominique Declerck
* Group 2 - Qualitative research, leaders Rebecca Harris and Roos Leroy
* Group 3 – Quantitative research, leaders Robert Eichler and Ken Eaton

10.00 Groups write protocols - In three groups

11.15 Coffee break

11.30 Plenary – groups report back - Rebecca Harris

13.00 Lunch

14.30 One to one meetings between teachers and participants to discuss their individual research plans and /or papers that they have written and wish to submit for publication.

16.00 Feedback and questions all participants and teachers

Dinner