For the curious. The questioning.
The scholars just getting started.
Conversations with leading researchers on how good studies are designed, and practical resources to help you take the next step in your research journey.
Conversations with researchers on methods, careers and equity, from forming a question to sharing what you found.
Tools that turn each conversation into practice for your own first project.
Ready to use material for bringing episodes into a research methods course.
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Science communicator Krista Lamb shares practical ways to explain research clearly, work with journalists, and lead with the point, closing season two.
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Dr. Navdeep Tangri explains how the Kidney Failure Risk Equation went from a bedside question to a tool used worldwide, and what predictive epidemiology can and cannot tell us.
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Professor Ulf Ekelund explains how pooling device measured data across cohorts showed that small increases in activity and small cuts in sitting could prevent many deaths.
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Dr. Michael Narvey shares how a neonatologist became a trusted voice on social media, and how clinicians and researchers can spot misinformation and communicate evidence well.
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Dr. Tara Horrill explains how critical ethnography revealed the health system barriers that keep structurally marginalized people from cancer care, and what could change.
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Dr. Ashley Stewart-Tufescu makes the case for starting with the question and using whatever methods it needs, drawing on her research with children and youth on adversity and wellbeing.
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Dr. Hertzel Gerstein shares how questions from the bedside grew into global diabetes trials, and what it takes to design, run and learn from large clinical trials.
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Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw explains why good evidence rarely changes practice on its own, and how implementation science uses theory and cluster trials to close the gap.
Listen to the episode →Discussion guides, slide decks and activities built around each episode, ready to drop into a methods course or journal club.
Episode notes, reading lists and reflection prompts to help you apply each design choice to your own project.
The Emerging Scholar sits down with leading researchers to unpack how good studies get designed. Each episode moves across quantitative, qualitative and critical approaches, so trainees can see the choices behind the work and build the judgment to make their own.
Hosted by Dr. Jon McGavock, co-led with Jana Apperley and produced by Jared McKetiak.
Our story and the team →Every episode comes with a short written companion on Substack: the big ideas, the sources, and a question to take into your own research.
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