How to Do Research and How to Be a Researcher

Robert Stewart, Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics, King's College, London

Rob Stewart is Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Clinical Informatics and leads Clinical and Population Informatics in the Maudsley NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.

1. Introduction
2. Origin stories
3. God or clockwork? The importance of ignorance
4. Careful observation
5. Ideas under pressure
6. Choosing a solution
7. The ideal and the reality
8. Consensus
9. Designing research - from description to theory-building
10. Designing research - experiments
11. Designing research - alternatives to experiments
12. Designing research - R&D
13. Communication 1 - getting published
14. Communication 2 - getting known
15. Money
16. Power and politics
17. How to be a researcher - some conclusions