 Welcome back everyone. I'm Professor Joshua James from the Legal Informatics and Forensic Science Institute at Hallam University in South Korea. This course or this video is going to be about an introduction to research and specifically how to get started with your research. So we have a lot more research students coming into our program now and many of them have never even even thought about really starting a real research project before. So this course is really made for them to think about how to get started in your research and what are some ways that can help you whenever you're just starting out doing research projects and papers. And also what is the I guess method that you can use to generate research ideas? How should you be thinking about those research ideas and potentially what tools can you use to help you actually complete your research and hopefully eventually get it published? So this course is is general. I might give some very specific examples sometimes about digital forensics or cyber crime investigation because that's what we do in our lab primarily but really these videos are for anyone who is interested in doing research is interested in starting research or maybe doesn't know where to begin. So I'll be posting these videos also on YouTube feel free to follow follow me on YouTube if you want to see all of these videos but I'm also I'm doing something a little bit different this time since I want to structure this a little bit more like a course I'm also using Google Classroom and you can find the link to Google Classroom and how to join the class below. Basically it's the same videos it's just you'll get a few more resources about what to read and things from Google Classroom and you can use the same account that you would use on Google. So feel free to follow me on Google Classroom feel free to follow me on YouTube if you want to get more updates on this introduction class. Some of the things we'll be talking about is starting out research. What is the goal of doing research? What once you have this goal what tools can you use to get yourself organized get your research organized to get your thinking organized about actually doing the research. What are the different methods that you can use to do research and when do you normally apply them for example we're normally in engineering so engineering computer science so we have a slightly different method for example than you would in biology now scientific method might be the same but the process and the kind of end results might be a little bit different sometimes or the way we show the results could be quite different sometimes and then after that how to organize your research that way you can actually understand your findings and then how to eventually produce results or give those results to the rest of the world usually through publication or maybe social media videos things like that so we'll talk about each of these different steps that a new researcher would normally go through hopefully from from first to last on Google Classroom I'll be posting a lot of links to different articles that are quite quite well written about about the subject and then we'll of course have videos talking about each of the subjects and specifically videos on how to use different research oriented tools we'll be talking a lot about software data management that kind of thing okay so that's the basic idea for this course it's free for everyone feel free to go to Google Classroom and join for my students you have to go to Google Classroom and join so I hope to see you there I hope this is a really good resource for anyone who is just starting a career or starting to think about research or wanting maybe to get a refresher about how the research process goes okay so thank you very much