How to keep your research project on track insights from when things go wrong

Textbooks and journal articles on research methods are rarely of help regarding what to do when your research project goes off track. This book addresses this important, and usually hidden, aspect of research by providing students and researchers with insider insights, advice and lessons about the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Townsend, Keith (Editor), Saunders, M. N. K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA Edward Elgar Publishing 2018, 2018
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 10. Finding the truth amongst conflicting evidence / Heather Short
  • 11. Rolling with the punches / Sharyn Rundle-Thiele, Julia Carins and Christiane Stock
  • 12. Access, Involvement and Interference: encounters and experiences of case studies / Kenneth Cafferkey
  • 13. Is a pilot necessary? / Polly Black
  • 14. The precarious nature of access / Wojciech Marek Kwiatkowski
  • 15. The diminishing dissertation: seven cases to three+ / Ashlea Kellner
  • 16. So, I guess we're probably finished then / Keith Townsend
  • 17. Your incentives are too lucrative: caution in rewarding interview participants / Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
  • 18. Sales skills for researchers / Colin Hughes
  • 19. Being flexible in interviews: make sure that you account for power imbalance / Qian Yi Lee
  • 20 . " ... just one goat": the importance of interpretation in qualitative data analysis / Keith Townsend and Rebecca Loudoun
  • 21. Analysing quantitative data / Sameer Qaiyum and Catherine L. Wang
  • 22. When the words just won't come / Dawn C Duke
  • 23. I'm a paper person or maybe not? / Ilenia Bregoli
  • 24. A mug of stress / Rohit Talwar
  • 25. Excuse me... should that comma be there?: dealing with awkward questions. / Kenneth Cafferkey
  • 26. Finding the time to progress your research, and the big lie that you are part of! / Jennifer McDermott
  • 27. Authorship in action / Kate L. Daunt and Aoife M. McDermott
  • 28. "They think I'm stupid": dealing with supervisor feedback / Amanda Lee
  • 29. Grasping roses or nettles?: losing and finding ourselves in research projects / Kiran Trehan, Alex Kevill, and Jane Glover
  • 30. Using social media to enhance your research / Angelique Gatsinzi
  • 31. Organisations, clients and feminists: getting in, coming back and having fun / Marian Baird
  • 32. Born to... write, re-write and re-write again / Mark NK Saunders
  • 33. "I'm over it.." / Peter J Jordan
  • Index
  • Contents: 1. Shit happens, but you have a job to do! / Keith Townsend and Mark NK Saunders
  • 2. Developing research ideas / Bill Lee
  • 3. On the path to enlightenment?: reviewing the literature systematically - or not / Céline Rojon
  • 4. The master and apprentice: lessons from two PhD supervisors and a recent PhD graduate / Jillian Cavanagh, Hannah Meacham and Timothy Bartram
  • 5. "Finders, keepers, losers, weepers!": a doctoral candidate's reality of changing thesis advisors / Polly Black
  • 6. Reply all, tweets and social media: technological friends for developing a professional identity that need to be treated with care / Hugh Bainbridge
  • 7. Coming up with a research question: opinions, feedback, and networking / Deisi Yunga,
  • 8. Finding epistemology / Neve Isaeva
  • 9. Bounce back, firewalls and legal threats: reaching respondents using Internet Questionnaires / Mark N.K. Saunders and David E. Gray