For instructors

Teach with The Emerging Scholar

We are building a tool that turns the podcast into ready to use teaching materials for health research methods courses. Pick a topic, tell us about your class, and it drafts slides, activities and assessments grounded in the conversations on the show.

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How the teaching tool will work

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Choose a topic

Start from any of the topics below. The tool opens with that topic already selected.

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Tell us about your class

Answer a few questions: how many classes, how long each one runs, how you split the time, and how many slides you want. You can add your own slides and figures too.

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Review and download

Get draft slides, activities and assessment ideas, including a data analysis exercise with synthetic data. Everything you make stays private in your own library, sorted by topic.

Topics

Every topic page already has the episodes, key learnings and resources you can use in class today. Teaching materials for each topic will be built from these.

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Paradigms and ways of knowing

How different research traditions understand knowledge, and why it shapes every study.

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Developing a research question

Turning curiosity and clinical observations into focused, answerable questions.

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Finding and appraising the literature

Searching efficiently and judging which studies deserve your trust.

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Evidence synthesis

Systematic reviews, meta analysis and rating the certainty of evidence.

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Bias, confounding and analysis planning

Mapping your assumptions and planning an analysis you can trust.

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Descriptive epidemiology

Describing who is affected, where and when, so resources reach those in need.

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Observational designs and data sources

Cohorts, case control studies and the power of routinely collected data.

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Randomized controlled trials

Designing trials that answer the right question for the right people.

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Causal inference and quasi experimental designs

Getting closer to cause when a randomized trial is not possible.

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Statistical analyses and comparing groups

How to compare two groups with numbers, and how to tell whether a test or prediction works.

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Prediction models

Building and validating models that predict who is at risk.

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Qualitative inquiry

Understanding experience, meaning and context through qualitative methods.

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Ethics, equity and Indigenous health research

Doing research that is ethical, inclusive and accountable to communities.

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Knowledge translation, implementation and communication

Moving evidence into practice and sharing science with the public.

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Research careers and mentorship

Finding mentors, building networks and shaping a research career.

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The adjacent possible

Ideas from outside health research, or from very different paradigms, that open new directions for your work.

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