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8 produkter
2 058 kr
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Managing Your Research Project is a practical and accessible guide that will help researchers navigate the complexities of project management. This user-friendly resource offers valuable insights and tools for funded, commissioned, unfunded, and student research in academic settings.Instead of advocating for a single project management approach, the book provides a variety of options, empowering readers to develop a style that works best for them. Each chapter is packed with practical tools and examples, offering easy-to-follow guidance on how to keep a project moving forward. Key topics include selecting the right project management approach, utilising effective tools, addressing ethical considerations, and managing critical aspects such as time, relationships, finances, bureaucracy, visibility, and quality assurance. While project management can be demanding, this book shows readers how to approach it so that it can be a satisfying, collaborative, rewarding experience. Along the way, the authors address the potential challenges and pitfalls of managing research projects and offer strategies to overcome them.This essential guide equips researchers with the knowledge and strategies they need to manage their projects efficiently and effectively.‘Insider Guides to Success in Academia’ offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia.These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often-implicit rules of the game – the things you need to know but usually aren’t told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors – and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.
274 kr
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Managing Your Research Project is a practical and accessible guide that will help researchers navigate the complexities of project management. This user-friendly resource offers valuable insights and tools for funded, commissioned, unfunded, and student research in academic settings.Instead of advocating for a single project management approach, the book provides a variety of options, empowering readers to develop a style that works best for them. Each chapter is packed with practical tools and examples, offering easy-to-follow guidance on how to keep a project moving forward. Key topics include selecting the right project management approach, utilising effective tools, addressing ethical considerations, and managing critical aspects such as time, relationships, finances, bureaucracy, visibility, and quality assurance. While project management can be demanding, this book shows readers how to approach it so that it can be a satisfying, collaborative, rewarding experience. Along the way, the authors address the potential challenges and pitfalls of managing research projects and offer strategies to overcome them.This essential guide equips researchers with the knowledge and strategies they need to manage their projects efficiently and effectively.‘Insider Guides to Success in Academia’ offers support and practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers. Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of trying to operate, and remain, in academia.These neat pocket guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature. Each book offers insider perspectives on the often-implicit rules of the game – the things you need to know but usually aren’t told by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development units, or supervisors – and will address a practical topic that is key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone looking to launch or maintain their career in academia.
Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents
Practical Examples and Guidance for Qualitative Researchers
Inbunden, Engelska, 2018
2 088 kr
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In today’s society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news articles, blogs, shopping lists and official government documents. Critically reading these ‘documents’ can help us to understand a huge amount about society. Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents includes guidance on how to ‘read between the lines’, and provides an overview of six research projects which use documents as data.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents
Practical Examples and Guidance for Qualitative Researchers
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
576 kr
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In today’s society we increasingly create and consume written content and images. This includes a range of sources, from social media posts to records held within organisations, and everything in between, including news articles, blogs, shopping lists and official government documents. Critically reading these ‘documents’ can help us to understand a huge amount about society. Doing Excellent Social Research with Documents includes guidance on how to ‘read between the lines’, and provides an overview of six research projects which use documents as data.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Doing Your Research Project with Documents
A Step-By-Step Guide to Take You from Start to Finish
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
322 kr
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Students and researchers have an abundance of materials and sources available to them via the internet for use in their projects. However, there is little practical guidance available on the fundamentals of performing qualitative research with documents. This valuable book enables readers to undertake high-quality, robust research using documents as data. Encouraging critical consideration of research design, the book guides readers step-by-step through the process of planning and undertaking a research project based on documentary analysis. It covers selecting a research topic and sample through to analysing and writing up the data. The book includes: • a wealth of case studies demonstrating how lessons can be applied in practice; • summary boxes and suggestions for further reading in each chapter to guide learning; • helpful online resources to facilitate designing your own research. Accessible and comprehensive, this book will be invaluable for both students and researchers alike who are new to documentary analysis. All the resources included in this book are available to download on the book’s webpage at https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/doing-your-research-project-with-documents/online-resources. Look for the Online Resources logo throughout the book.
1 158 kr
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Documents are a rich yet often overlooked source of research data, offering unique insights across disciplines. This book provides a clear and practical guide to working with a wide variety of documents — including historical and contemporary, hard copy and digital – alone and in teams. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, it unpacks the decisions researchers make when finding, selecting and analysing documents.Organised into four sections, the book examines how researchers engage with seemingly mundane materials, explore documents in popular culture, apply multi-modal research techniques, and develop innovative approaches to dissemination. Each chapter offers real-world case studies, illustrating diverse research questions, theoretical perspectives and analytical methods.Key features include:-Step-by-step guidance on applying document analysis methods in research;-Diverse case studies showcasing practical applications across fields;-Engaging and accessible explanations that clarify complex approaches.Filling a crucial gap in the methods literature, this essential text equips students and researchers with the tools to harness the full potential of documents in research.
383 kr
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Documents are a rich yet often overlooked source of research data, offering unique insights across disciplines. This book provides a clear and practical guide to working with a wide variety of documents — including historical and contemporary, hard copy and digital – alone and in teams. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, it unpacks the decisions researchers make when finding, selecting and analysing documents.Organised into four sections, the book examines how researchers engage with seemingly mundane materials, explore documents in popular culture, apply multi-modal research techniques, and develop innovative approaches to dissemination. Each chapter offers real-world case studies, illustrating diverse research questions, theoretical perspectives and analytical methods.Key features include:-Step-by-step guidance on applying document analysis methods in research;-Diverse case studies showcasing practical applications across fields;-Engaging and accessible explanations that clarify complex approaches.Filling a crucial gap in the methods literature, this essential text equips students and researchers with the tools to harness the full potential of documents in research.
301 kr
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The ultimate, accessible guide to navigating every step of pregnancy, birth and the fourth trimester for Autistic people. Exploring the reality of pregnancy and acknowledging it's challenges, autistic researcher Dr Aimee Grant interweaves advice from autistic pregnant people and registered midwives to answer any questions you may have on being an autistic pregnant person. The dip-in-dip-out format provides you with an easy-to-navigate exploration into sensory overwhelm, managing demanding medical appointments, navigating being a new parent and everything in between. There are also QR codes to informative YouTube videos throughout and downloadable materials, including birth plans, to help support you in navigating your journey. Whether you're autistic yourself or looking to support your autistic partner, family member, this book is here to support you, your family and your baby every step of the way. It also holds invaluable insights for those providing care for an autistic pregnant person.