The postgraduate research handbook : succeed with your MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD / Gina Wisker

Contents

Pt.1. Starting research
Starting your postgraduate research
Choosing the right research degree
Choosing your supervisor(s)
Research questions and hypotheses
Research methodologies
Conceptual frameworks
Ethics and confidentially
Writing a research proposal
Pt.2. Getting going - supervisors, time and community
Managing your supervisor (s)
Managing the balancing act
Managing your time and tasks
Learning as a research student - learning approaches, styles and pitfalls
Developing a supportive research culture locally and at a distance
Pt.3. Carrying out the research and starting to write
Carrying out a literature review - developing the theoretical perspectives chapter
Methods in brief
Using grounded theory, case studies, journals and synectics
Action research and practitioner-based research
Problem solving or enquiry-based research and problems solving
Research methods for the arts and humanities
Pt.4. Support, progress, analysis, writing up, the viva, presentations and afterwards
Being organised, keeping records, writing up, stage-by-stage
Writing the thesis or dissertation
Overcoming writing blocks and learning from feedback
Analysing data and thinking about findings
Learning from feedback
Writing transfer documents and progress reports for MPhil, EdD and PhD thesis
Writing up: definitions and qualities of a good MA, MPhil, EdD and PhD thesis
Preparing your thesis and dissertation - coherence, conclusions and conceptual level work
Preparing for and undertaking your Viva
Dealing with corrections - Life after Viva ..
Presentations, conferences and publishing.
Life after research

Includes bibliographical references and index.