Gear Up for Research has been held for a number of years on the Dartmouth College campus and was first held at DHMC in October 2014, bringing together people across the Dartmouth community who support all disciplines of research through services, tools, and consultation.
Previous Gear Up events were held on the Dartmouth campus in January 2015 (and in previous years), for faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other researchers in the life sciences, physical sciences, and humanities.
Previous table topics have included but not been limited to:
- Identification of funding sources (Center for Nursing Excellence, Nursing Research and Evidenced-Based Practice)
- Guidance on ethical issues and human subjects research as related to nursing (Center for Nursing Excellence, Nursing Research and Evidenced-Based Practice)
- Publication and presentation (Center for Nursing Excellence, Nursing Research and Evidenced-Based Practice)
- Instrument design and data collection (Center for Program Design and Evaluation)
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis (Center for Program Design and Evaluation)
- Fiscal and regulatory compliance in clinical trials (Clinical Trials Office)
- Human Subjects Research (The Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects)
- Data Analytics (The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice)
- Laboratory Safety (Environmental Health and Safety)
- Technical assistance on grant submission related to obesity, tobacco use prevention, and other public health research (Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth)
- Information about obesity and tobacco research think tanks (Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth)
- Support for fostering community-clinical linkages for public health research (Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth)
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center (Life Sciences Shared Resources)
- Copyright/ Creative commons and usage (Dartmouth Libraries)
- Open Access Publishing (Dartmouth Libraries)
- Measuring Research Impact (Dartmouth Libraries)
- Managing References (Dartmouth Libraries)
- Keeping Current in Medicine and Biology (Dartmouth Libraries)
- Data Management Planning- DMPTool, Open Data (Dartmouth Libraries)
- Finding Private Funding (Office of Development and Alumni Relations)
- Research Conflict of Interest (Office of Sponsored Projects)
- Grant Support (Office of Sponsored Projects)
- Computational resources (Research Computing)
- Support for statistical and math packages (Research Computing)
- Code development, optimizing, and debugging services (Research Computing)
- Research Consultation Cores; Clinical Research Cores (Dartmouth SYNERGY)
- Education, Mentoring and Career Development (Dartmouth SYNERGY)
- Material Transfer Agreements, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Invention Disclosures (Technology Transfer Office)