This session encourages researchers to get to know each other and for them to become familiar with the NxtGen space. It also ensure logistical elements are complete, such as:

• configuring online workspaces (e.g., TEAMs)
• collecting consent forms
• completing an evaluation

This session looks at how we envisage our futures, what do they look like to us, what are the opportunities and challenges facing us.

We then look at how to develop effective research questions that are meaningful to us.

This session gives an insight into the importance of reflecting on your research, how to build this into your practice.

It then moves on to consider how you as a person can influence your own research and how being aware of this can result in more rigorous research.

This session looks at how researchers use secondary data to inform their research or directly to answer their research questions.

It also looks at what ‘representation’ in research means for their research.

This session aims to give researchers the opportunity to test and practice using six different types of research methods.

They can begin thinking about which research method(s) they might like to use for their research.

This session introduces the importance of research ethics.

Researchers look at case studies to consider ethical principles and then learn about the eight ethics principles.

Researchers prepare an ethics application for their own research.