Research Studio
Interactive demonstration · fictional study information · session only
What are the six Research Studio workspaces? — Help & guidance
My Research: Find your studies, resume drafts, review their status, and create new studies.
Study Builder: Develop your research question, classifications, methods, study procedures, and safeguards.
Participants: Plan recruitment, eligibility, participant information, and informed consent.
Analytics: Examine authorized study data and document analyses, comparisons, and interpretations.
Publications: Prepare reports, review findings, and manage publication and translation workflows.
Architecture: Explore the proposed data structure and relationships that support Research Studio.
These workspaces are navigation areas. Research Studio remains a demonstration, not a live research system.
What do the 12 Research Studio sections do? — Section guide
01 Dashboard: See your studies, drafts, and work needing attention.
02 Create Study: Describe a new research question and its basic settings.
03 Classification: Select disciplines, research topics, and methods.
04 Procedure Builder: Arrange the activities and stages of the participant journey.
05 Ethics & Team: Plan ethics review, safeguards, and collaborator roles.
06 Recruit & Consent: Define recruitment, eligibility, and informed-consent arrangements.
07 Data Capture: Describe how study information would be collected and recorded.
08 Analysis: Plan analysis and interpretation of permitted evidence.
09 Publication Studio: Prepare research outputs and publication workflows.
10 Administration: Review administrative settings and controls.
11 Database ERD: Examine the proposed database entities and relationships.
12 Design Status: See what the prototype demonstrates and what remains unimplemented.
You can move between sections using the existing navigation buttons. These descriptions are guidance, not additional features.
My Research
Welcome to your research workspace. Continue a draft, start a study, or review work awaiting your attention.
3 Drafts
Work in progress, safely retained.
1 In review
Protocol and publication approvals.
2 Active
Recruitment or data collection underway.
| Study | Stage | Updated | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meditation and reported awareness | Draft | Example | |
| End-of-life experiences: qualitative interviews | Protocol review | Example |
Create a research study
Describe your inquiry in your own words. You can change the suggested classifications before saving.
Guided research education
What is a research discipline? A field of inquiry, such as neuroscience, psychology, or philosophy of mind.
What is a research topic? The subject being studied, such as meditation or non-dual awareness.
What is a method? A way to collect or interpret evidence, such as interviews, EEG, or thematic analysis.
What is a study design? The overall structure, such as longitudinal, cross-sectional, or experimental.
Suggested classifications — review before applying
Discipline: Contemplative science
Topic: Meditation
Method: First-person interviews
Design: Longitudinal
AI suggestions are not verified study facts.
Study classification & methodology
Select multiple disciplines, topics, and methods. The categories are separate and extensible.
Classification entries are populated for demonstration. The precise approved 19-topic and 25-method labels still require reconciliation against the original decision record.
Research disciplines
What does this mean?
Disciplines are fields of inquiry, such as neuroscience or philosophy of mind. A study may combine several.
Research topics
What does this mean?
Topics describe what is being studied. Select every relevant topic; a study may cross several areas.
Research methods
What does this mean?
Methods describe how evidence is collected or analyzed, not the field or subject of the research.
Procedure Builder
Build the complete participant journey. Preview the flow from the beginning, even while unfinished.
Procedure sections
Where am I?
Jump to any section without losing your work.
Participant flow preview
Protocol, governance & collaboration
Control what may change, who may review it, and when a new approved version is required.
Protocol
Study: None selected
Who reviews ethics applications and what do the approval stages mean?
The primary investigator and research team prepare the protocol, risks, safeguards and supporting documents. An authorized Research Ethics Board (REB), Institutional Review Board (IRB), or other competent ethics authority reviews studies where required; the Research Studio does not grant ethics approval.
Draft — not submitted: the team is preparing documents. Submitted for review: an application has been sent to the responsible review body. Approved: the responsible body has issued a decision for a defined protocol and period; researchers must record and verify the decision. Not applicable: a documented determination or justification is needed, according to applicable rules. Some studies may also require revisions, conditional approval, suspension, expiry, or renewal.
What belongs in study risks and safeguards?
Describe foreseeable physical, psychological, emotional, privacy, cultural, and other risks. Explain eligibility screening, distress response, escalation or referral procedures, confidentiality, data security, and how risks will be monitored. The level of detail should match the study and its jurisdiction.
What is a withdrawal and retention plan?
Explain how participants can withdraw, whom they contact, what happens to information already collected, and any limitations once data have been anonymized or published. State where records are stored, who may access them, how long they are kept, and how they are securely disposed of, consistent with applicable requirements and consent.
What is an approved protocol version, and what does Draft 03 mean?
A protocol is the documented plan for the study. Draft 03 means the third working draft; it is not necessarily approved. Editable means the research team may still revise the draft, subject to their permissions. An approved version is a specific version formally authorized by the appropriate reviewing body, where approval is required.
Possible labels include Draft 01, Draft 02, Submitted v1.0, Approved v1.0, Amendment 1 pending, Approved v1.1, Superseded, and Archived. Changing an approved protocol may require an amendment and sometimes renewed consent. This prototype records a label only; it does not validate or confer approval.
Collaborators and permissions
Study: None selected
What are collaborator roles and permissions?
A role describes the person’s responsibilities; a permission controls what they may access or change. For example, a nurse might be allowed to enter only authorized clinical observations, while a co-investigator may propose protocol changes. Participants normally access their own consent and permitted activities, not the research team’s workspace.
Permissions should follow least-privilege access, study approval, and applicable privacy rules. An invitation is not equivalent to verified identity, institutional authorization, or ethics approval.
| Role | Proposed access |
|---|---|
| Primary researcher | Study oversight, subject to approvals |
| Co-investigator | Explicitly delegated editing/review |
| Nurse / clinician | Only approved clinical data |
| Research assistant | Assigned research tasks only |
| Support staff | Assigned operational data only |
| Statistician / analyst | Authorized analysis datasets |
| Ethics reviewer | Read/review protocol material, where authorized |
| Participant | Own consent and authorized materials |
Use Invite collaborator to record a person’s name, affiliation, country, role and proposed permission. This prototype stores a draft invitation in your current browser session; it does not send an email.
No draft collaborator invitations for this study.
Recruitment & informed consent
Configure where a study may recruit, which participant languages it supports, and what people need to know before deciding whether to participate.
Recruitment geography
What do the three recruitment scopes mean?
Single country: Recruitment is planned in one country or territory. Selected countries: Recruitment is planned only in the places explicitly selected below. Global — subject to eligibility: Recruitment may be considered internationally, but only where eligibility criteria, ethics permissions, consent requirements, local laws, and practical arrangements permit. Selecting Global does not itself authorize recruitment anywhere.
Recruitment geography is different from the countries in which collaborators or their institutions are based. Regional eligibility, including locations such as Tibet within China, can be documented separately.
Participation languages
What do primary and additional study languages mean?
The primary language is the main language used for the study’s participant materials. Additional languages are those the team intends to support. A selected language does not mean translated or ethics-approved materials already exist. Each applicable participant document and consent process must be accurately translated and reviewed before use.
Primary language: Not selected
Additional supported languages
Informed consent
What is informed consent, and who prepares it?
Informed consent is an ongoing, voluntary process, not simply a checked box. The research team prepares understandable information describing the study, its activities, time commitments, foreseeable risks, possible benefits, privacy and data use, withdrawal arrangements, and contacts. The responsible ethics authority reviews the process and materials where required.
Consent must be appropriate to the participant’s language, circumstances, and capacity. Special populations and jurisdictions may require additional safeguards.
What will I be asked to do?
Select a study to see an illustrative explanation of its activities.
Participation & research data
Support digital, paper, and hybrid methods without treating imported material as automatically verified.
Data collection setup
Participant view: Reflection
Describe what you noticed during the session. There are no expected answers.
Analysis workspace
Preserve original data, compare interpretations, and trace findings back to permitted evidence.
Study analytics — fictional demonstration
Completion by study group
Participant status
70% completed · 20% in progress · 10% withdrawn
Charts are illustrative only. They do not represent actual findings.
Analysis plan
Evidence trail
| Finding | Evidence | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Example theme A | De-identified interview excerpts | Thematic coding |
| Example theme B | Session reflections | Longitudinal comparison |
Publication & public understanding
Prepare different authorized versions of the same findings for different readers and languages.
Build a report
AI assistance is optional; every generated explanation and translation requires qualified researcher review before release.
Report preview
Example: What did this study investigate?
Researchers asked people to describe their experience during meditation. The researchers compared the descriptions to look for patterns. This is a sample explanation, not actual findings.
Figure 1 · Demonstration completion outcomes
Illustrative data; not a scientific result.
Review, corrections & fairness
Time-bound review, written objections, recorded delays, conflict-of-interest safeguards, and impartial appeal pathways are required. Valid null, negative, and inconclusive results are welcome. Public questions may be moderated and researcher responses remain optional.
Security, operations & portability
The same study records and permissions must remain usable when the presentation host changes from WordPress to ASP.NET/.NET.
Role / data-class policy
| Data class | Rule |
|---|---|
| Identity & contact | Need-to-know; separate from analysis identifiers |
| Consent records | Versioned and access-controlled |
| Clinical / sensitive | Approved staff only |
| Analysis datasets | Minimum necessary and de-identified where appropriate |
| Public reports | Approved release versions only |
Hosting parity checklist
Proposed relational architecture
Logical entity-relationship blueprint, not the previously approved full ERD or executable SQL. PK = primary key; FK = foreign key.
Relationship paths
Important boundaries: My Journey tables are outside this research schema. A future consent-based transfer is a separate controlled integration, never an implicit join. Production needs tenant isolation, data classification, retention policies, audit events, and jurisdictional review.
What this prototype demonstrates
A working-through-the-screens design demonstration, not a live research system.
Source and approval status
Confirmed from the available conversation: ten modules, requirements-level approval of guided screens 001–010, researcher-controlled AI, education, study import and duplication, non-linear procedure preview, collaborator protections, hybrid collection, strict research/My Journey separation, multilingual accessible publication, publication fairness and transparent corrections.
Proposed here for review: precise screen layout, example labels, role matrix entries, example data fields, and logical table names.
Not implemented: authentication, persistence, real AI, document ingestion, real participant records, consent enforcement, publication, printing a validated report, and production database.
Source limitation: the full verbatim transcript of all 001–010 discussions and the original complete approved ERD were not available in the retrieved project materials. Therefore this file must not be presented as a word-by-word reconstruction or a final schema.