Advanced Research Training
Build Capacity. Produce Impact.
ARPS Institute's research training programs are designed to equip scholars, practitioners, and institutional teams with the analytical skills, methodological rigour, and scholarly communication tools needed to produce credible, high-impact research.
How We Teach
The Research Training Cycle
Our programmes follow a structured five-phase learning cycle, taking participants from foundational concepts through to published outputs and real-world application.
Areas of Focus
Disciplines We Cover
ARPS Institute focuses on professional, research, and leadership development fields — providing accessible and high-quality training across key disciplines worldwide. We do not provide clinical or medical training.
In-depth training on interviews, focus groups, ethnography, case studies, and thematic analysis. Learn to design, conduct, and report rigorous qualitative inquiry.
Statistical foundations, survey design, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and interpretation of numerical data for evidence-based reporting.
Integration of qualitative and quantitative approaches for comprehensive research design. Covers convergent, explanatory, and exploratory mixed methods frameworks.
From structuring arguments and writing literature reviews to manuscript preparation, journal submission, and navigating peer review processes.
Practical introduction to R for researchers — data wrangling, visualisation, statistical modelling, and reproducible research workflows using RMarkdown.
Creating interactive dashboards and data stories from research datasets. Covers data modelling, DAX fundamentals, and publishing reports for institutional use.
Step-by-step guidance on conducting rigorous systematic reviews — protocol development, database searching, PRISMA reporting, and evidence synthesis.
Statistical techniques for combining results across studies, calculating effect sizes, assessing heterogeneity, and interpreting pooled evidence for policy and practice.
Navigating ethical approval processes, informed consent, data protection, research integrity, and responsible conduct of research across disciplines.
Practical use of AI tools — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Elicit, Semantic Scholar — for literature discovery, writing assistance, data analysis, and research productivity.
Crafting compelling grant proposals, identifying funding opportunities, understanding donor requirements, and developing competitive research budgets and narratives.
Structured guidance for developing research proposals, dissertations, and theses — from formulating research questions to defending findings before academic committees.
Hands-on training in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis using NVivo and Atlas.ti — coding, querying, and visualising qualitative datasets for publication.
Hands-on training in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis using NVivo and Atlas.ti — coding, querying, and visualising qualitative datasets for publication.
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