Research Guides: Advance Your Research: Advance Your Research

What is Advance Your Research?

Advance Your Research (AYR) is a series of webinars and workshops geared towards graduate students and other advanced researchers that are designed to help make the research process better, faster and smarter.

You can also browse previous webinar recordings and workshop materials by exploring the grey tabs to the left based on type of information you're needing.

Please provide feedback on this guide at any point by emailing Kelsey Cheshire, kcheshire@vcu.edu.

Featured recordings to advance your research

Videos from the Advance Your Research workshop series can be viewed anytime from YouTube. They cover key issues for graduate students including literature reviews, research sources and strategies, data management and publishing.

Amplify Marginalized Voices and Counter Structural Bias
Learn how to develop conscientious practices that can amplify marginalized voices in scholarship and counter structural bias in the research process, from searching for and citing diverse scholarship to designing inclusive research questions and methods.
Data Searching for Secondary Data Analysis
It can be surprisingly hard to find data for a specific research question. This session will introduce tools and concepts for more effective data searching, for students who are new to secondary analysis.
Incorporating Feminist Practice into Your Research
Have you considered how to assimilate your personal beliefs as a feminist into your scholarly pursuits? This webinar will present theoretical approaches to incorporate feminist practice in your research.
Nearly Painless Literature Reviews
Conducting a literature review is a multi-faceted task, requiring you to learn a variety of new skills quickly, process large amounts of information, and present existing scholarship succinctly. Librarians will offer strategies and tools to make wrangling this complexity (nearly) painless.
Preparing a Literature Review in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Conducting a literature review can feel like a daunting task. Overcome your anxiety before your next research project by learning helpful tips and tricks for conducting literature reviews in the behavioral and social sciences.
Publishing a Journal Article: A Getting Started Guide
You’ve done the research. Now it’s time to share the results by writing an article for publication. Join this interactive webinar to get started with journal authoring and publishing.
Researching Globally: Search Strategy and Tips
Have you considered how much research is being produced outside of the United States? This webinar is intended to expose students to information resources and databases that contain international research.
Sage Research Methods
Do you ever find yourself stuck at some part of the research process? Are you in a class that requires you to do a research project and you don’t know where to start? SAGE Research Methods can help you move forward.
Secondary Data Search And Retrieval: Sources, Exports and Imports
This session will address secondary analysis steps between operationalizing the constructs and running the analysis. We will discuss extracting a dataset, finding the data and codebook in the data package, and uploading to App2Go.
Tale of Two Posters
Help your audiences better understand your research! Learn tips for designing engaging conference posters, and configuring your content for both print and digital formats.

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