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Top tips: actually starting your research

Watch this video montage of university researchers giving top tips on what to think about to actually get started on your research & what tools to use

Our university researchers give their top tips of things to think about to actually get you started. They also talk about their favourite research tool.

What are your thoughts after watching the video? Do you find anything surprising about the way in which each researcher describes their favourite research tool?
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