Week 2 - Waste Research

What is waste and why do we care about it? We discuss the solid waste service change in both majority countries and in Switzerland and compare the challenges. We discuss how to properly formulate a research question which will then form the basis of the group project.

Figure 1: Photo by Barn Images

Learning Objectives

This lecture consists of two parts, each of which have specific learning objectives.

Part 1

1. Learners are able to change a non-FINER/PICOT research question into one
2. Learners are able to create a FINER/PICOT research question
3. Learners can compare the solid waste management challenges between the minority and majority world
4. Learners are able to define Main and Sub-research questions

Part 2

These learning objectives are related to the assignment for this week.

1. Learners can clone a repository from GitHub into the RStudio Cloud
2. Learners can render an R Markdown file using the RStudio IDE
3. Learners can commit changes to files in a git repository using the RStudio IDE
4. Learners can push changes to a files tracked in a git repository to GitHub

Slides

title	lecturer	part	slides
Waste Research	E. Tilley	Part 1	Access slides on Moodle
Version control and more tools	L. Schöbitz	Part 2	Access slides in browser
Version control and more tools	L. Schöbitz	Part 2	Access slides as PDF

Group work

• Groups will decide on a main research question and up to 3 (MAX) sub-questions. The group will present their work in the following class verbally without any required submission.

Papers

• Fandino, W. (2019). Formulating a good research question: Pearls and pitfalls. Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 63(8), 611..

Homework

id	title_link	type	category	effort_estimate_min	submission_format	due_date
1	Week 2 - Meet RStudio	assignment	required	45	GitHub	2022-03-15
2	Collaboration with version control (Chapters 12.1 to 12.5)	reading	required	30	no submission