Doing a Successful Research Project

Name: Doing a Successful Research Project
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781137306425
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Using Qualitative or Quantitative Methods

By Martin Brett Davies and Nathan Hughes

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Doing a Successful Research Project is a straightforward, student-friendly guide that takes readers through all stages of the research process. It offers practical advice on planning, designing, implementing, analysing, and completing research projects. Suitable for students from various disciplines including social sciences, education, health, and business studies, this second edition includes enhanced coverage of research ethics, literature reviews, online methodologies, and quantitative methods, enriched with up-to-date real-life research examples.
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Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking research projects or dissertations across social sciences and related disciplines. Also valuable for those studying qualitative and quantitative research methods or research design on academic modules.

Doing a Successful Research Project 2e gives students the knowledge, self-discipline and confidence to carry out their first research project. Describing processes, tools and strategies in a simple, succinct way, it guides the reader carefully through the planning and design stages, to implementation, analysis and completion.

Contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. Describes processes, tools and strategies to support the reader through the planning and design stages, to implementation, analysis and completion.

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This straightforward, student-friendly guide contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. The second edition of this no-nonsense textbook supports students in conducting their own research projects, whatever discipline they are from.

Describing processes, tools and strategies in a simple, succinct way, it supports the reader carefully through the planning and design stages, to implementation, analysis and completion.

Doing a Successful Research Project is suitable for an interdisciplinary audience all over the world. It is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking a research project or dissertation across the social sciences, applied social sciences, education, health and business studies. It can also be used as essential or complimentary reading on modules on qualitative and quantitative research and research design.

New to this Edition:

Enhanced coverage of essential topics, including research ethics, the literature review and online methodologies
Increased coverage on quantitative methods
New up-to-date examples of real-life research studies
Broadened scope to encourage appeal to a wide range of academic disciplines

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised for its clarity and practicality, the book receives acclaim from academics worldwide. Ann Taylor highlights its comprehensive advice for designing method projects and gaining transferable skills. Patrick White calls it the best text for undergraduate social science research projects, while Gerardo Marti commends its broad coverage for beginners. Trish Hafford-Letchfield appreciates the authors' straightforward yet sophisticated approach, recommending it highly.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781137306425

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 March 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 359g

Pages: 288

Collections

Education & Reference Martin Brett Davies Nathan Hughes Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Martin Davies is Professor Emeritus at the University of East Anglia, UK. He has extensive social science research experience, having held research posts in the Home Office, the National Health Service and the Universities of Manchester and East Anglia, where he supervised the research dissertations of more than 750 graduate and undergraduate students.

Nathan Hughes is Director of Education and Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work at the Institute of Applied Social Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.