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 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.
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
