Practical tools for doing the research
Use calculators, builders, templates and checklists to move your research forward.
Browse by Research Journey
The same five stages you already use across Methods Bench.
Plan & Design
Tools and templates for research questions, design, sampling and proposals.
View resourcesReview Evidence
Organise what the literature shows and where your study fits.
View resourcesPrepare & Collect
Ethics submissions, fieldwork planning, instruments and data quality.
View resourcesAnalyse & Interpret
Choose an analytical approach and pre-specify your analysis.
View resourcesWrite & Publish
Structure, check and submit manuscripts and other outputs.
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Sample Size Calculator
Size surveys, two-group comparisons and qualitative saturation with every step shown.
Research Alignment Checker
Check that your question, objectives, design, population, measurement and analysis point at one study.
Conceptual Framework Builder
Build a framework of explained relationships, run structure checks and export a clean figure.
Literature Synthesis Matrix
Organise the papers you have read by contribution and theme, then export synthesis notes.
Concept Note Template
A structured worksheet for shaping an early research idea into a concept note that survives first review.
Ethics Submission Checklist
A REC/IRB readiness checklist covering consent, translation, data protection, permissions, and submission pack.
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Fieldwork Budget Estimator
Create a structured fieldwork budget, apply contingency and export it.
Ethics Submission Checklist
A REC/IRB readiness checklist covering consent, translation, data protection, permissions, and submission pack.
Consent Form Writing Guide
A guided worksheet for writing participant consent forms, with section-by-section prompts, example language, and the eight mistakes that cause REC revision requests.
Assent Form Template
An age-appropriate assent form template for involving minors in research, with plain-language prompts and a guardian co-signature block.
UNCST & REC Submission Checklist
A Uganda-specific checklist covering UNCST registration, local REC requirements, and the full document pack needed before submission.
RA Supervision Checklist
A workbook for field coordinators covering daily start, during, and end-of-day checks plus a weekly team performance review.
Data Quality Check Template
A weekly data quality workbook with formula-driven summary, RA performance tracker, issue log, and corrections audit trail.
Kobo/ODK Pre-Deployment Checklist
A pre-deployment workbook for digital data collection tools, covering form logic, skip patterns, validation, pilot testing, and device readiness.
Focus Group Discussion Guide Template
A structured FGD guide with opening, warm-up, core questions, probes, and closing, plus facilitator and note-taker prompts.
In-Depth Interview Guide Template
A semi-structured interview guide with topic blocks, probes, and reflexivity notes.
Ethics Submission Checklist
What REC and IRB committees actually look for before they approve a protocol.
Proposal Builder Kit
Annotated proposal guidance, concept note support, framework tools and a sample-size cheat sheet.
UGX 25,000 / US$7
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