Research Methods for Health Librarians 1: Survey Research (🎦 now available)
This free session is organised and developed in collaboration with the HLI and ALIA Research Advisory Committee
🎦 To view the video, visit the HLA Videos page
👉 Session Details
Survey Research is a popular methodology to collect information from a sample of individuals, but perhaps what is less known is that there are multiple ways (methods) that you can collect this information. In this session, you will learn about different Survey Research methods, with a focus on good questionnaire design. You will learn:
- the importance of well-structured data collection instruments
- consequences of bad design
- examples of how to ask questions to avoid bias, loaded and leading questions
✅ ALIA Competencies
C2: Reference and Research Services
C7: Health Research
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👱♀️ Presenter Bio
Dr Katherine Howard is Intersect Australia’s Digital Research Analyst for UniSA. She supports UniSA researchers by providing expertise in various digital tools and technologies, facilitating access to NCI’s HPC (Gadi), and coordinating Intersect’s training program for UniSA staff and students. Katherine’s background is in Information Science and she has extensive national and international experience as a researcher and academic. Katherine was most recently a Research Fellow with the ARC-funded ‘Library and Information Science Research in Australia’ (LISRA) project, aimed at enabling and encouraging research in Australia’s library and information profession. Prior to this, she was an Early Career Development Fellow at RMIT; has held academic positions at QUT and UniSA; and undertaken sessional work with Curtin University and Charles Sturt University. Dr Howard has received many scholarships and research awards. She was awarded a two-year scholarship to undertake the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Digital Library Learning, studying with world-renowned Information Science scholars in Norway, Estonia and Italy. Katherine was the first person outside of North America to win a Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, and her PhD, completed at QUT, was nominated for an Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. Katherine’s research focuses on new and emerging roles for information professionals, particularly around data science, research data management, and in the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector. She also has a keen interest in the Digital Humanities.
🌎 Zoom Room
https://alia-org-au.zoom.us/j/83084755873?pwd=OtgDbbc2aXkckdtT6OHpRv6V9E3nFR.1
ID: 830 8475 5873 / Passcode: 794846
💰 Free
📅 March 05, 2025 12:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
