Tracey Wilkie (left) working with research team member, Dr Aria Graham
Tracey Wilkie (Whakatōhea), a PhD student based at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington was, in October 2019, awarded a Whakauae 2019 - 2020 Summer Studentship. She recently successfully completed the studentship which involved upskilling the Whakauae research team in their use of the software reference library, EndNote.
EndNote is a research reference storing programme that allows you to create a customised reference library for use in day to day research work. Through its magic, EndNote provides the ease of inserting references into any manuscript one is writing to reference the literature that you have used to tautoko your own rangahau and/or grant application. This means, gone are the days of manually typing every reference into your manuscript and then creating a manual Reference List at the end of your mahi (whakaute nui for those of you that have and do!). The magic of EndNote is you can have the citation of the reference from your literature library, in your manuscript, with a click of a button.
Research team members had varying degrees of capability and knowledge in relation to EndNote use giving Tracey a wide scope to work within. Her extensive teaching experience proved to be a valuable asset in her studentship mahi. The mahi included Tracey teaching some members of the research team “how to use” basic tools in EndNote to insert references from their current library, into their manuscripts; to import references from online databases, such as journals, webpages, books, reports; and to manually enter reference data into their EndNote library. Other members of the team more familiar with the EndNote software greatly appreciated working alongside Tracey to extend their user competencies. In addition to facilitating small group training sessions and one on one sessions with each researcher, Tracey also developed a practical resource guide to support the team to be self-sufficient EndNote users.
Tracey found that in working with Whakauae, in a studentship capacity, she was able to enhance her own EndNote skillset and learn new skills, to then teach the team, the “how to use” of EndNote with more proficiency and more efficiently as a rangahau tool.
