Description

By (author) Brookfield, Charlotte; By (author) Lewis Jamie

Short /annotation:
A new research project guide for social science students used to hybrid teaching and research; it comes from two young, energetic methods experts who map the individual’s journey through a contained project.

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Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is a companion guide for anyone completing a research project in the social sciences. It covers the whole research process, from planning, developing, collecting data, analysing data, and writing up. It will help you manage and complete your research project successfully.

It will guide you on:

-Planning your research project
-Developing data collection tools
-Analysing and interpreting data
-Presenting your research in different formats

Featuring chapter objectives, checklists, student exercises, weblinks, and further reading, this comprehensive guide ensures readers navigate the complexities of research within a manageable step-by-step framework.

Table of contents:
IntroductionChapter One:What is Social Science Research and Why is it Important?Chapter Two: Planning a Social Science Research ProjectChapter Three: Reviewing Social Science LiteratureChapter Four: Being an Ethical ResearcherChapter Five: Methods of Social Science Data CollectionChapter Six: Social Science Data AnalysisChapter Seven: Presenting Your Social Science ResearchChapter Eight: Introducing and ConcludingChapter Nine: Submitting Your Social Science Research Project

Review quote:
′Doing a first research project can be intimidating. This offers a practical guide for the puzzled student. Written in an easy to read, conversational style, full of helpful examples, this will become the key book in the field′.

Review quote:
Completing Your Research Project is a comprehensive guide for social science students. It takes the reader through planning, the collection and analysis of data, presenting findings, writing up and submission and what examiners are looking for in their assessments. This is an authoritative book that students will find invaluable.

Biographical note:
Charlotte Brookfield is a Reader at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences. Charlotte is based in the Cardiff Q-Step Centre of Excellence in Quantitative Methods Teaching and Learning. The Centre is one of eighteen across the UK which aim to enhance the quantitative research methods training experience for social science students. The pedagogic activities of the Centre have influenced Charlotte’s research interests and in particular, she is interested in exploring the extent to which British sociology engages with quantitative approaches and the possible factors that may contribute toward sociology students’ resistance to study and use quantitative techniques.Charlotte teaches on a range of research methods and substantive modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Specifically, she convenes the Real World Research Placement module, where students are afforded the opportunity to put into practice the quantitative skills they have acquired in lectures in a local work organisation. Organisations involved in this module include the Welsh Government, the Welsh Blood Service and the Welsh Wheelchair Basketball Association. It was through leading this module that Charlotte came to realise the necessity for social science students and graduates to have a greater familiarity with Microsoft Excel.In her spare time, Charlotte enjoys baking and crafting. Jamie Lewis is a Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences. His research is mainly situated in the Sociology of Science and Technology Studies (STS), but also extends to the public understanding of science (PUS) and medical sociology. He is presently working on a Expert Citizen Science project