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Research training beyond introductory study: evidence synthesis, causal design, modelling, qualitative analysis and reproducible experiments.

Start with your research question, choose a method, study original materials and produce work others can examine. Sources are mainly in English, with bilingual reading tasks.

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Eight units with methods, worked examples and free primary sources. Practise here or offline, take work to your AI, then import feedback and revise.

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The workbooks and review criteria are platform-designed exercises for projects or group discussion, not assignments set by the source authors.

Questions and contributions: distinguish competing explanations

Compare candidate questions, map claims to evidence and draft a proposal that can be challenged.

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Evidence synthesis: protocols, bias and disagreement

Move from rerunnable searches to synthesis; separate reporting, study quality and comparability.

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Causal design: estimands, DAGs and sample justification

Define the target trial and identification assumptions before estimation, then simulate where the design fails.

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Bayesian workflow: generative models, diagnostics and revision

Connect priors, sampling diagnostics, predictive checks and sensitivity analysis in an auditable workflow.

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Reflexive thematic analysis: from extracts to interpretation

State epistemology and positionality, trace codes into themes and revise interpretations using counterexamples.

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Reproducible experiments: baselines, fair comparisons and failure audits

Fix splits, comparison budgets and sources of variability so another researcher can rebuild the main result.

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Scholar examples and professional resources

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Evidence synthesis · Handbook and guideline · Graduate · methods prerequisites

Cochrane Handbook · Review scope & RoB 2

Cochrane methods authors · 6.5 · 2024

Reading target
Evaluate bias domains for a specific randomized-trial result and document the reasons.
Prerequisites
Study designs, effect measures and systematic review concepts.
Platform-designed exercise
Assess one outcome from one randomized trial, recording source locations and reasons for every judgement.
Method boundary
RoB 2 assesses randomized-trial results; do not use it as a generic score for interviews or observational studies.
Access
Free online chapters: chapter 2 covers scope; chapter 8 covers randomized-trial bias.

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Source checked 2026-10-25

Evidence synthesis · Handbook and guideline · Advanced · subject foundations

PRISMA 2020

PRISMA statement group · 2020

Reading target
Transparent reporting of search, selection and synthesis in systematic reviews.
Prerequisites
Distinguish narrative reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Platform-designed exercise
Populate a flow diagram from your screening log and reconcile deduplication, exclusions and inclusions.
Method boundary
A reporting guideline; checklist completion does not establish quality or replace risk-of-bias assessment.
Access
Public checklist, explanation and flow-diagram templates.

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Source checked 2026-10-25