User:Kellie Toohey/Learning Outcomes/7. Develop a strategy to successfully acquire the research generic skills

Strengths


 * Communication skills.
 * Availability and willingness of supervisors to assist.
 * Working with a health provider (The Canberra Hospital) who will refer clients.
 * Understanding of exercise physiology mechanisms.
 * Background in exercise prescription.
 * Identification of gaps in the literature
 * Highly skilled in time management and planning skills.
 * The ability to work full time on the PhD project.
 * Presentation skills.

Personal Weaknesses


 * Limited writing skills requiring development
 * Knowledge of basic statistic needs to be developed further.
 * Moderate experience in testing protocols – further development Sphygmocor.

Addressing weaknesses

A pilot project will be carried out by the end of 2013 as part of this process which will help build the skills required to carry out a large study, this project will also assist in ironing out any issues that may occur as part of the project.

The portfolio will include a literature review article and presentation, an ethics approval document a research proposal document, these will be written with the support of my supervisors.

Also as a part of the skills portfolio, I will be attending the workshops presented by the research area in the coming months to grow my skills in writing and interpretation of research data. Attendance to workshops held for HDR students this semester; workshop timetable.

I will be attending statistic courses run by ACSPRI; these courses add the additional knowledge required to increase skills for research understanding, analysis and representation.

Course outlines can be found at http://www.acspri.org.au/courses.


 * Introduction to Qualitative Research Techniques – February 2014
 * Fundamentals of SPSS – July 2014
 * Qualitative Research: Design, Analysis and Representation – September 2014