Merryl Harvey – författare

Undertaking a part-time doctorate when you’re working full-time in higher education can be daunting. This guide gives you realistic and reassuring support for the complexities and challenges you might face.Each chapter helps you map the next step in your doctoral journey, from discovering your motivations and making important decisions about where to study, to preparing for thesis submission and your viva  – and how to navigate the ‘after’ when you’ve completed your doctorate. The book:Gives you honest, down-to-earth advice about how to navigate professional and personal challenges, such as continuing professional development and maintaining motivation.Discusses unique tensions additionally faced by academics studying in their own institution, such as managing supervisory relationships.Showcases a diverse range of student experiences, with over 20 case studies of postgraduate researchers.Includes practical activities and reflective questions to help you make the right decisions for you.You can also find templates for helpful techniques, such as doing a SWOT analysis, and a collection of carefully-chosen weblinks to handy resources, such as funding information, on the book's website. This book is a companion for anyone undertaking doctoral research while working in an academic post.

Undertaking a part-time doctorate when you’re working full-time in higher education can be daunting. This guide gives you realistic and reassuring support for the complexities and challenges you might face.Each chapter helps you map the next step in your doctoral journey, from discovering your motivations and making important decisions about where to study, to preparing for thesis submission and your viva  – and how to navigate the ‘after’ when you’ve completed your doctorate. The book:Gives you honest, down-to-earth advice about how to navigate professional and personal challenges, such as continuing professional development and maintaining motivation.Discusses unique tensions additionally faced by academics studying in their own institution, such as managing supervisory relationships.Showcases a diverse range of student experiences, with over 20 case studies of postgraduate researchers.Includes practical activities and reflective questions to help you make the right decisions for you.You can also find templates for helpful techniques, such as doing a SWOT analysis, and a collection of carefully-chosen weblinks to handy resources, such as funding information, on the book's website. This book is a companion for anyone undertaking doctoral research while working in an academic post.

The complete companion to nursing and midwifery research.

For anyone encountering evidence-based practice for the first time or refreshing their knowledge, this book takes readers through each step of the research process at a steady pace. Get confident consuming and conducting research – and see how it challenges and changes clinical practice.

New co-authors Kirsty Barclay and Sara Zarasvand have updated the original text by Merryl Harvey and Lucy Land to:

Continue drawing on examples from midwifery and all four fields of nursing, including mental health nursing and child nursing, to bring research to life.Cover new and updated NMC professional education standards and map all relevant policy and law.Equip readers with the skills to do ethical research and consider issues around equity, diversity and inclusion.

This book is the ideal research methods guidebook for pre- and post-registration nurses and midwives.

The complete companion to nursing and midwifery research.

For anyone encountering evidence-based practice for the first time or refreshing their knowledge, this book takes readers through each step of the research process at a steady pace. Get confident consuming and conducting research – and see how it challenges and changes clinical practice.

New co-authors Kirsty Barclay and Sara Zarasvand have updated the original text by Merryl Harvey and Lucy Land to:

Continue drawing on examples from midwifery and all four fields of nursing, including mental health nursing and child nursing, to bring research to life.Cover new and updated NMC professional education standards and map all relevant policy and law.Equip readers with the skills to do ethical research and consider issues around equity, diversity and inclusion.

This book is the ideal research methods guidebook for pre- and post-registration nurses and midwives.

This book walks you step-by-step through the whole research process so you can get up to speed understanding and doing your own research.

In their friendly, down to earth style, the authors lay the theoretical foundations you need to consume and critique research, before showing how to translate this into action when tackling your own literature review or research project.

This second edition:

Draws on a wealth of examples from midwifery, four fields of nursing including mental health nursing and child nursing, and a range of health care specialities. Covers new and updated NMC professional education standards and maps all relevant policy and law. Supports your learning with reflective exercises, online activities and quizzes that enable you to be confident in your understanding and develop your thinking. 

Whether you’re encountering research and evidence-based practice for the first time or refreshing your methods knowledge, this is the ideal research companion for nurses and midwives pre-registration, post-registration and beyond.

This book walks you step-by-step through the whole research process so you can get up to speed understanding and doing your own research.

In their friendly, down to earth style, the authors lay the theoretical foundations you need to consume and critique research, before showing how to translate this into action when tackling your own literature review or research project.

This second edition:

Draws on a wealth of examples from midwifery, four fields of nursing including mental health nursing and child nursing, and a range of health care specialities. Covers new and updated NMC professional education standards and maps all relevant policy and law. Supports your learning with reflective exercises, online activities and quizzes that enable you to be confident in your understanding and develop your thinking. 

Whether you’re encountering research and evidence-based practice for the first time or refreshing your methods knowledge, this is the ideal research companion for nurses and midwives pre-registration, post-registration and beyond.

Undertaking a part-time doctorate when you’re working full-time in higher education can be daunting. This guide gives you realistic and reassuring support for the complexities and challenges you might face.Each chapter helps you map the next step in your doctoral journey, from discovering your motivations and making important decisions about where to study, to preparing for thesis submission and your viva  – and how to navigate the ‘after’ when you’ve completed your doctorate. The book: Gives you honest, down-to-earth advice about how to navigate professional and personal challenges, such as continuing professional development and maintaining motivation. Discusses unique tensions additionally faced by academics studying in their own institution, such as managing supervisory relationships. Showcases a diverse range of student experiences, with over 20 case studies of postgraduate researchers. Includes practical activities and reflective questions to help you make the right decisions for you.You can also find templates for helpful techniques, such as doing a SWOT analysis, and a collection of carefully-chosen weblinks to handy resources, such as funding information, on the book′s website. This book is a companion for anyone undertaking doctoral research while working in an academic post.