Links

Websites

• Queen's University Belfast, School of Pharmacy
  The hosts of the 2003 conference
• Department of Health; Research and Development
  Details: R&D Programmes, How Priorities are set for DH Research, Working with other Funders
• The College of Pharmacy Practice
  Joint hosts of the 2005 conference
• University of Reading, School of Pharmacy
  Joint hosts of the 2005 conference
• The National Research Register (NRR)
  A register of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service.
• RDInfo
  Information on health related funding and training opportunities
• Medical Research Council
  Details of research training and career development schemes
• Consumers in NHS Research
  Group set up to advise the Central Research & Development Committee (which advises the Director of R&D) on how best to involve consumers in the R&D process.
• Health Technology Assessment
  The HTA programme is a national programme of research established and funded by the Department of Health's Research and development programme.
• Concordance
  Aims to stimulate further research and debate about concordance and to provide a source of authoritative and up to date information relevant to concordance for academics, healthcare professionals, patients and the general public.
• Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy
  Fellowships to give mid-career professionals from Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom an opportunity to conduct a research project in the United States.
• Pharmacy Law and Ethics One Day Conference
  A one-day conference for researchers in healthcare law, healthcare ethics and pharmacy practice.

Discussion Forum and Mailing Lists

• NETLIST
  The electronic discussion list for the UK Federation of Primary Care Research Networks.

Publications

• The public's use of community pharmacies as a primary health care resource
  Executive summary for the Community Pharmacy Research Consortium
• SAGE publications
  A wide range of research related publications and software
• Social Research Online
  An online research journal
• The Scanner
  The Scanner reviews research into pharmacy practice and areas of relevance to pharmacy practice.

Software

• SPSS
  Statistical package for social sciences
• NUD*IST
  Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and Theory-building QSR Ltd. Also QSR NVivo, BEST, Decision Explorer, Ethnograph.

Online tutorials

• Tutorial workbooks, University of Leeds
  Notes on Excel, SPSS, Minitab and other software