PSY3PRP Tutorials 4 & 5

Identifying and Collating Data

Research Report Assignment

- LTU Dept. Psychology, Counselling & Therapy Website
- Scopus & Clarivate Databases
- REsearch Data Capture (REDCap) platform
Weeks 4 & 5
Outline of tutorial

• Staff contact details

• Online Quizzes (see LMS)

• Assignment 2: Group Pitch

• Assignment 3: Research Report

Assignment 3

Research Report
50%; due Wednesday 1st November, 11:59pm (via TurnItIn)
Introducing Assignment 3

Individually-written research report – professional/contract report-type; with:

• Executive Summary, Background, Approach, Findings, Interpretation sections
(similar to Lab Report Abstract, Intro, Method, Results, Discussion;
but presented as a ‘glossy’ professional document, not APA-style manuscript)

• Work together during Weeks 4 - 5, and Weeks 7+ Tutorials to:

• Identify and collate data
• Explore the topic, identify the question/s, and plan the analytic approach
• Access the data, undertake analysis, interpret findings, and write up

Topic → Research performance of Dept Psychology, Counselling & Therapy

in 2021 and 2022
 Pitch Topics = Current
Research & New Ideas
of selected staff in LTU’s Department
of Psychology, Counselling & Therapy

✓ Autistic Family Wellbeing

✓ Chronic Pain and Cognition
✓ Experience of Itch in Autism
✓ Fear and Social Buffering
✓ Loneliness and Addiction
✓ Natural Environments and
Developmental Coordination
Disorder (DCD)

Report Topic = Scale and Scope of

Research Work Completed & Published
Recently, by DPCT as a Whole
LTU’s Department of Psychology, Counselling & Therapy (DPCT)

Explore DPCT Website:

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/department-of-
psychology-counselling-and-therapy

➢ Research …
➢ List of Current Staff …
➢ Links to staff Research Profiles…

Output types: scientific paper, book/chapter,

conf. proceeding, contract research report

Scientific papers: Article vs. Journal title

Scopus → Accessed via LTU Library website & your login

Access & orient to Scopus (via LTU

Library):
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/library

➢ Online database of scientific

publications & key metrics
➢ Search functions (e.g., by Author)

➢ Focus on DPCT Staff in your sub-list

(other groups will work on others)
Clarivate Journal Citation Reports

Access & orient to Clarivate (no login):

https://jcr.clarivate.com/jcr/home

Journal (Source) Title ➢ Online database of scientific journals

& their key metrics
➢ Search function; by journal title

➢ To identify journal-specific metric for

papers published by DPCT Staff in
your sub-list
REsearch Data Capture (REDcap)

https://redcap.latrobe.edu.au/redcap/index.php
For info…
REDCap facilitated data capture/collation:
▪ “Project” (for Subject Coordinator only)
▪ Tracking “survey” for tutors (DPCT staff)
➢ Main “survey” for PSY3PRP students to
enter publication-level data:
https://redcap.link/psy3prp.2023.projectrecords

Common data entry point

For centralised database aggregation
To be checked and shared back
Identify and Collate Data

Following guide, together work through:

❑ Your class DPCT Staff List (from website; specific
sub-list held by Tutor)
❑ Search individual staff names in Scopus
❑ Identify publications from 2021
❑ For each paper, identify & enter information into
REDCap Survey
https://redcap.link/psy3prp.2023.projectrecords
❑ Include journal information from Clarivate
❑ Repeat for publications from 2022
❑ Repeat for other staff members

Doubling up (aka ‘double data-entry’) is good!