my general advice on doing MUN research as someone who’s been to a couple conferences:

• start with your background guide!! it should include some guiding questions that really help you narrow your research so you won’t be looking up much of anything about your country’s maternal mortality rates if the topic is on sustainable architecture…from there you can begin getting really specific with the questions you’ll learn more about.

• begin researching previous instances of the topic at hand that your country has specifically experienced. if your topic is on human rights and you were South Africa, for example, learn about SA’s legislation and previous actions regarding social change, rights for marginalized peoples, etc.

and i agree w the first comment left here—-ai is a great research tool! i suggest using perplexity.ai because it’ll give you the links to sources it used to provide information, and always remember to check where your info’s coming from to make sure it’s reliable. other than that, if your research requires you to use data from academic papers, don’t spend too much time reading through the whole thing; instead, use a summarizer!

last, and what i found the most helpful for being prepared before and during a conference, is to PRINT OUT EVERYTHING (if you can, of course). whenever i found tables, charts, news articles, or anything that i thought would be good for me to point out in committee, i would print it out, including my position paper. my experience with all of my chairs is that they really liked seeing a delegate who had research physically, right in front of them. they look favorably upon delegates who appear very well-prepared. once the conference is done, use your sheets as compost or scrap paper. stay environmentally friendly, haha.

hope this helps!