Evidence-Based Management:

How to effectively work with scientific articles to access the most reliable knowledge?

As Ph.D. students, you are accustomed to working with scientific methods, but how often are these insights applied outside academia? This webinar will show you how to bridge the gap between science and management practice, using scientific research to make better decisions. You will learn how to formulate research questions, effectively search for relevant studies, and evaluate their quality. Master the skills that will help you transfer your academic knowledge into real-world decision-making, enhancing the value of your expertise in practice.

Course Description

Scientific articles are the most reliable source of information. The scientific method and procedures actively prevent many types of biases and errors that affect other sources. Unfortunately, we don't work with them nearly as much as we could, due to obstacles such as lack of time or skills to utilize them properly. In this seminar, I will show you methods to quickly find relevant research, access it, assess its quality and reliability, extract the information you need, and incorporate the findings into your conclusions and decisions. This will open up one of the most valuable information sources for you, which you can use as a basis for decision-making in both your professional and personal life. You’ll avoid many unnecessary mistakes, and your opinions will be supported by high-quality evidence.

What you will learn in the training

• How the scientific method works and why it is the best tool for understanding how the world operates.

• How to formulate a question to be answered through scientific research.

• Where to find scientific studies, what keywords to use, and how to access full texts.

• How to navigate a research paper—what to focus on and ignore.

• How to evaluate the quality and credibility of a scientific article and determine its weight.

• What a proper scientific experiment looks like and how to conduct your experiments.

Timing

Wednesday, 6th November, 15.00-17.00

Online

We will send the link to the registered people before the course begins.

Lecturer Ing. Lukáš Hána

Lukáš has been teaching people how to think critically for over ten years. He helps them work with information, solve problems, make decisions, plan, innovate, implement changes smoothly, argue convincingly, and avoid pitfalls, cognitive biases, and manipulation. He founded and leads the project Skeptik.cz. At the University of Economics in Prague, he helped create a Critical Thinking course, which he continues to teach. He completed training at the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) in Berkeley. He trains the public, companies, NGOs, universities, and even intelligence agencies, not only in the Czech Republic but also across Europe and the United States.

Participants

Ph.D. candidates

Registration

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