Planning Your Postgraduate Research

Margaret Walshaw is Coordinator of the Professional Doctoral programme and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Mathematics Education at Massey University, New Zealand. She is the author of Getting to Grips with Doctoral Research.

'Planning Your Postgraduate Research provides readers with constructive and helpful guidance on the crucial early stages of undertaking research. Margaret Walshaw's book hits all the right notes in covering how to select a question, conduct a literature review, choose a research methodology, and provides useful guidance on how to manage one's time effectively.' - Kristen Williams, Clark University, USA 'A most welcome book, which explores and explains all of the different elements, theoretical and empirical, academic and personal, that are necessary for the successful completion of postgraduate research.' - Suzanne McDonald-Walker, Northampton University, UK

• AcknowledgmentsPreface1. Introducing Research2. Selecting a Topic, Formulating a Research Question, and Developing a Conceptual Framework3. Gathering and Evaluating Relevant Literature4. Writing the Literature Review5. Defining a Research Methodology6. Creating a Research Proposal7. Looking Ahead to Next StepsReferencesIndex.