Research Resources
Like teaching, doing research has its own challenges and rewards. Here are a few resources (in no particular order) to help you function as an academic researcher.
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MRU's ORSCE Table of Typical Tri-Agency Deadlines (featuring internal and external deadlines)
University Affairs: What to do when you feel ‘just done’ by Alexander Clark and Bailey Sousa (March 2022)
Being Lazy and Slowing Down along with their article: “Being lazy and slowing down: Toward decolonizing time, our body, and pedagogy” (by Riyad Shahjahan 2014)
How to be a Happy Academic (Amazon.ca link) by Alexander Clark and Bailey Sousa
On-demand Online Resources:
- Behind the Curtain with Federal Grants Adjudication Committees: NSERC Panel 2022 with Trevor Day (MRU) and Gregory Moorhead (UCalgary) - recording
- Behind the Curtain with Federal Grants Adjudication Committees: SSHRC Panel 2022 with Margot Hulbert (URegina), Lisa Hughes (UCalgary), Susanna Barnes (USask) - recording
- Elements of Success: Writing Across Funding Agencies 2022 with Jeella Acedo, Aliyah Dosani, Rachael Pettigrew, Paul Varella Connors - recording
- Planning your Scholarship Program Workshop - recording & workbook
- Overview of the Funding Landscape - recording
- Overview of the SSHRC Funding Landscape - recording
Research Security
- CSIS: Research Security Protecting Canadian Science & Technology
- Public Safety Canada: Research Security Information Update (2021)
- CSIS: Safeguarding your Research Data Checklist
- SSHRC news page: Canada’s research funding agencies launch research data management policy
- Ensure your survey tool is secure and compliant: Is Your Survey Tool Compliant with Data Privacy/Storage (Sovereignty) Laws?
ROMEO
ROMEO is an effective one-stop-shop for researchers, signing authorities and reviewers, designed to streamline submission through approval processes. Users can log in to check the status of an ethics application, or start a new grant application, or complete a few review assignments.
The ROMEO User guide provides insight on how to use the platform starting from its home page navigation to learning how to submit application and event forms.
About Romeo
General information about the ROMEO Research Portal including important dates about workshops and other updates, and important how-to's.
ROMEO User Guide
More information about the Research Portal detailing parts and techniques on how to use the platform.
ROMEO Research Portal
Login to the ROMEO Research Portal to access applications, events, and other research related materials.
If you have any questions or require more information about ROMEO, please contact us.
Software and By-Appointment Training Sessions
For more information or to obtain a license, contact the ITS License Manager at licensemanager@mtroyal.ca.
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software package used for statistical analysis, data management and documentation.
It offers the following features:
- Descriptive statistics: Cross tabulation, Frequencies, Descriptives, Explore, Descriptive Ratio Statistics
- Bivariate statistics: Means, t-test, ANOVA, Correlation (bivariate, partial, distances), Nonparametric tests
- Prediction for numerical outcomes: Linear regression
- Prediction for identifying groups: Factor analysis, cluster analysis (two-step, K-means, hierarchical), Discriminant
For more information or to obtain a license, contact the ITS License Manager at licensemanager@mtroyal.ca.
NVivo is the #1 software package for qualitative data analysis. It was designed for qualitative researchers working with rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data were required.
NVivo accommodates a wide range of research methods, including:
- network and organizational analysis
- action or evidence-based research
- discourse analysis
- grounded theory
- conversation analysis
- ethnography
- literature reviews
- phenomenology
- mixed methods research
- the Framework methodology.
NVivo supports data formats such as audio files, videos, digital photos, Word, PDF, spreadsheets, rich text, plain text and web and social media data. Users can interchange data with applications like Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, IBM SPSS Statistics, EndNote, Microsoft OneNote, SurveyMonkey and Evernote; and order transcripts from within NVivo projects, using TranscribeMe (© Wikipedia).
QSR provides free access to several NVivo training courses and webinars.
For more information or to obtain a license, visit the MRU Qualtrics page or contact the ITS License Manager at licensemanager@mtroyal.ca.
Qualtrics is a user-friendly online survey platform used to create and distribute surveys. Qualtrics supports various data collection approaches, from simple questionnaires to sophisticated social science research designs.
The Office of Institutional Research and Planning can support the development and administration of surveys at MRU. Please contact mrusurvey@mtroyal.ca if you would like to discuss an upcoming survey project.