This course provides an opportunity for students to establish or advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course focuses on translational research and provides the fundamentals towards the design and conduct of “use-inspired” research, by building upon basic scientific research and synthesizing knowledge to develop a new or improved drug, device, diagnostic, or behavioral intervention. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Topics to be covered include: Searching and critically analyzing the latest research, Understanding statistics in quantitative research, Critical appraisal, Writing a research protocol, The setting up of a project, Patient and public involvement in research, Selecting robust outcome measures, Qualitative research methods, Assessing the impact of research, Getting research funding, Disseminating research