Department 01
Research methodology and protocol development
Support for the decisions that shape a study before data are collected: the question, the design, the outcomes, and the protocol.
Students preparing proposals, clinicians starting a project, and departments standardising how studies are planned.
What this covers
- Refining research questions and objectives
- Choosing study designs and appropriate outcomes
- Sample-size planning and protocol development
- Developing data collection tools and questionnaires
- Ethics-application support, focused on methods and clarity
Typical deliverables
- Written comments on the question, design, and outcomes
- A protocol outline or a marked revision of your draft
- A practical note on sample-size assumptions
- Questionnaire or case-report structure, when that is in scope
Limits of the work
- You remain the investigator. We do not take authorship by default, and we do not submit ethics applications in your name.
- Sample-size work states its assumptions. It is not a promise that a study will find a difference.