Your Research Project: Designing and Planning Your Work (SAGE Study Skills Series) - Softcover

Walliman, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849204624 ISBN 13: 9781849204620

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

In the third edition of this bestselling book, you′ll find everything you need to embark upon your research project and write your proposal with confidence. Written with the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners in mind, Your Research Project will guide you through the process of formulating a research question, choosing your research methods, planning your research, and writing your proposal.

Fully updated and revised, the new edition features:

o A comprehensive introduction to the purpose and nature of research

o Expanded coverage of writing a research plan or proposal

o An overview of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis, as well as more on mixed methods research designs

o New sections on digital media and online research methods

o Exercises and examples to provide students from across the social sciences with the practical tools needed to succeed in their project.

Nicholas Walliman is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University.

About this title

About the Author

After twenty years in architectural practice in Scotland, England and Switzerland designing a wide range of buildings, industrial, commercial, residential, and renovating and restoring historic buildings, I returned to academic activities when I embarked on a Ph.D. at Oxford Brookes University. 
 

My university teaching and examining experience has been at all levels, with the preponderance at postgraduate level. I have supervised to successful completion twenty Ph.D. students and two MPhils, 1 KTP, and examined 13 Ph.D. candidates. I have published several popular textbooks and guides on construction aspects and on how to do research for students and practitioners and how to write Ph.D. theses, Masters and Undergraduate dissertations. 
 

As Senior Researcher, Oxford Institute of Sustainable Development – Architectural Engineering Group, my research was based mainly on the technology of building construction - innovative, existing and historic, on vernacular architecture, and issues regarding accessibility in buildings and surroundings. My published papers and reports are read internationally and have been presented at international conferences.  

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849204624
• ISBN 13: 9781849204620
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400