Resource Library - Peoples-Praxis

Study Materials

Resources that are available as Open access

These have been chosen to reflect the list of topics identified in our survey of Public Health graduates when we were setting up Peoples-Praxis. This list is designed to grow and we welcome any suggestions for resources or content areas for us to add. Please contact us with your ideas.

◘ R Programming 101. Greg Martin. Series of YouTube presentations — https://www.youtube.com/c/rprogramming101
◘ The R Project for Statistical Computing. Can download and install the software from this site — https://www.r-project.org/
◘ The book (free access) offers an introduction to statistical data analysis applying the free statistical software R, probably the most powerful statistical software today. The analyses are performed and discussed using real data — https://bookboon.com/en/introduction-to-statistical-data-analysis-with-r-ebook
◘ Statistical Reasoning — Open & Free. Introductory-level course teaches students the basic concepts of statistics and the logic of statistical reasoning. Designed for students with no prior knowledge in statistics, its only prerequisite is basic algebra. From the Open Learning Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University. — https://oli.cmu.edu/courses/statistical-reasoning-copy/
◘ Free statistical calculators — https://www.medcalc.org/calc/index.php
◘ See more at— https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=statistical+software&sort.property=relevance

◘ Evaluating the implementation of a policy or intervention. From the University of Melbourne. Developed for evaluating Non-Communicable Disease interventions, is applicable to various interventions. — https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/centres-institutes/nossal-institute-for-global-health/implementation-science/how/step-3-evaluating
◘ Evaluation of health promotion, public health or public policy interventions. By Health Knowledge, hosted by UK Faculty of Public Health. Comprehensive and well referenced.
— https://www.healthknowledge.org.uk/public-health-textbook/disease-causation-diagnostic/2h-principles-health-promotion/health-promotion-evaluation
◘ WHO Evaluation Practice Handbook- https://www.peoples-praxis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/who-evaluation-practice-handbook-2013.pdf

◘ Research Methods knowledge base. The Research Methods Knowledge Base is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses all of the topics in a typical introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. It covers the entire research process including: formulating research questions; sampling (probability and nonprobability); measurement (surveys, scaling, qualitative, unobtrusive); research design (experimental and quasi-experimental); data analysis; and, writing the research paper. It also addresses the major theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of research including: the idea of validity in research; reliability of measures; and ethics — https://conjointly.com/kb/
◘ eLearning Courses from the Global Health Training Centre. ‘Our eLearning courses are designed to cover every step, process, and issue that needs to be understood in order to conduct high-quality research. Every course is written to be globally applicable, for all diseases and all regions. Each course is carefully researched to provide high-quality material that is peer reviewed and regularly updated. A certificate is issued once a minimum of 80% is achieved in the course quizzes.’ — https://globalhealthtrainingcentre.tghn.org/elearning/
- ▸ An example: https://globalhealthtrainingcentre.tghn.org/study-protocol/ The Study Protocol. From the Global Health Training Centre.

◘ Qualitative Research: Definition, Types, Methods and Examples (quite simplistic, but clear definitions) — https://www.questionpro.com/blog/qualitative-research-methods/
◘ How to use and assess qualitative research methods. Excellent and clear — https://neurolrespract.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42466-020-00059-z
◘ Qualitative research methods: when to use them and how to judge them. Good idea of how to assess results of qualitative research. — https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/31/3/498/2384737
◘ Qualitative research methods. Greg Martin. 14 minute YouTube presentation. Very good and clear. This video provides an introduction to qualitative research methods. It includes teaching on ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory and case studies. It also goes into data collection including interviews, focus groups, observational studies and content analysis. And the video teaches data analysis including thematic analysis. Lastly, the video talks about how to write up and publish a paper during your results. — https://youtu.be/_uapR0qiN6s

◘ Introduction to implementation science. Implementation science has been defined as “the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice, and hence, to improve the quality and effectiveness of health services”. — https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/social-science-for-tackling-antimicrobial-resistance/0/steps/66212
◘ The Science of Global Health Implementation. Enrol for free — https://iversity.org/en/courses/the-science-of-global-health-implementation

◘ Rapid Academic Writing by Royce Kimmons & Richard E. West. Very basic, designed for US college. Some useful tips — https://edtechbooks.org/rapidwriting?redirected=true
◘ Lecture notes on preparing proposals and manuscripts. Part of a free online book for health science, Survival Skills for Researchers. Written in 2003, the literature searching techniques have evolved since, but a nice review of writing a paper and a study proposal — https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/hst-502-survival-skills-for-researchers-the-responsible-conduct-of-research-spring-2003/resources/6roposalsmanus/
◘ AuthorAid is a global network of researchers offering courses and resources on various aspects of research writing. Wonderful set of resources, you can search and filter — https://www.authoraid.info/en/resources/
Here is are two excellent resources:
- - ▸ Writing the Empirical Journal Article” By Barbara Gastel | Aug. 31, 2012 — https://www.authoraid.info/en/resources/details/785/
  - ▸ Grant Proposals (or Give me the money!). From UNC, Chapel Hill, USA — https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/grant-proposals-or-give-me-the-money/
◘ You can search for others at https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=academic+writing+skills&sort.property=relevance

◘ https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/ The Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM) has multiple resources, available at https://www.cebm.ox.ac.uk/resources/resource

◘ Peoples-praxis Online Courses
◘ Treasure, A. M. et al. (2022) ‘Ten simple rules for establishing a mentorship programme’, 18(5), pp. e1010015
◘ Clutterbuck, D. A. et al. (2017) The SAGE handbook of mentoring. Sage.
Chapter 12 Design of effective mentoring programmes by Lis Merrick (pages 185 and 196 attached)
Chapter 16 The role of the mentoring programme co-ordinator by Terezia Koczka
◘ Meyer, H. (2023) ‘What is Best Practice in Online Coaching?’, International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring(S17), pp. 77-90.