Doing your Research Project in Sport

Chris Lynch teaches at Sheffield College, where he is lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science. He has extensive experience of teaching research methods to students on higher education courses and supervising their research projects. Chris is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of BASES. He is also an avid follower of sport and a poor 5-a-side footballer.

The practical applied nature of the book makes if useful for the sports coaches, but it is too ′sport′ specific to make it applicable to the Physical Education students, whose research follows a slightly different pathway.

• Part 1: Getting to the start lineYour research project and this bookGetting to the start line: the basis of researchIdentifying problems and developing the research questionSearching for and reading research to write a literature reviewDesigning an experimentNon-experimental researchWriting the whyPart 2: You′re off!You′re off: making ethics applicationsWriting the howData analysisPart 3: Crossing the finish lineWriting what you have foundWriting the so whatCrossing the finish lineAppendix: writing-up checklist