What?
The EONS Research Working Group commits to pursuing activities that contribute towards the achievement of the EONS Strategic Goals as outlined in the 2024 to 2028 Strategy.
Objectives
Sustain engagement with contemporary evidence, to ensure its effective use in research, education, and advocacy activities.
Conduct rigorous research to generate and disseminate new evidence to address knowledge gaps, and advance cancer nursing as a specialist area of practice.
Build capacity and provide opportunities for nurses to learn, network and develop research literacy (knowledge, confidence, and awareness), skills and experience.
The Research WG Team
Gulcan Bagcivan, Türkiye
Co-chair
Zeynep Karakus, Türkiye
Member
Lucia Cadorin, Italy
Member
Karin Brochstedt Dieperink, Denmark
Member
Sara Colomer-Lahiguera, Switzerland
Member
Maura Dowling, Ireland
Co-chair
Eva Pape, Belgium
Member
Susana Miguel, Portugal
Member
Cherith Semple, UK
Member
Resources
The following selected links provide useful information for novice and experienced researchers.
Cancer nursing research news
+ https://www.journals.elsevier.com/european-journal-of-oncology-nursing
+ https://journals.lww.com/cancernursingonline/pages/default.aspx
+ https://journals.rcni.com/cancer-nursing-practice
+ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13652354
+ https://www.springer.com/medicine/oncology/journal/520
+ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10991611
+ http://www.canadianoncologynursingjournal.com/index.php/conj
+ https://publications.cancerresearchuk.org/
Why cancer nursing research?
Krishnasamy & Chan (2016)
+ https://journals.lww.com/cancernursingonline/Fulltext/
2016/11000/Translational_Cancer_Nursing_Research___What_Will.1.aspx
Cancer statistics
European Cancer Observatory – cancer statistics for Europe.
World Health Organisation Data and Statistics
+ http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases/cancer/data-and-statistics
Global Cancer Observatory
Literature searches
For literature searches, use PubMed – online search tool for peer-reviewed journal articles.
+ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
NB: also check with your local University/hospital or health service library for access to articles.
Grey Literature
Key stages of literature searching
+ https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-018-0545-3
Literature reviews
Reviewing the literature
+ https://ebn.bmj.com/content/19/1/2
Systematic v. traditional reviews
+ https://libguides.sph.uth.tmc.edu/c.php?g=543382&p=5370369
Rapid reviews
+ https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2046-4053-1-10
Critical appraisal and thinking
Critical appraisal of evidence
+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsD9Lp-q45Y
+ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19858857
+ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20032669
+ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20574204
+ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20736710
+ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20980899
Tips for peer reviewing
Tips for peer-review provided by members of the EONS Research Working Group
https://cancernurse.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/EONS-RWG-Peer-review-tips.pdf
Proposal writing
Information on writing qualitative research proposals.
+ http://www.qualres.org/HomeGuid-3868.html
Information on writing quantitative research proposals.
+ http://www.epiresult.com/methods/format-for-a-quantitative-research-proposal-2/
Bourne PE, Chalupa LM (2006) Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants.
+ http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020012
Research jargon buster
+ https://www.ncor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Jargon_in_research.pdf
Making sense of research methods – Howlett (2013)
+ http://samples.jbpub.com/9781449652777/11637_CH02_031_054.pdf
Monash University
+ https://www.monash.edu/rlo/graduate-research-writing/write-the-thesis/writing-a-research-proposal
On good academic writing
Funding sources
For information about other sources of funding see:
Research and Development Funding – searchable database which includes European funding.
+ https://www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/homex (NB: you have to register)
National Cancer Research Institute Grantsmanship Gateway – A UK site with useful information about how to write a good grant application, with some good links to other sites.
+ http://grantsmanship.ncri.org.uk/
Research Professional – database of funding opportunities that can be personalised to reflect your needs and eligibility.
+ https://www.researchprofessional.com (NB: you have to register)
National Institute of Nursing Research
+ https://www.ninr.nih.gov/researchandfunding
European Commission
+ http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html
National Institutes of Health