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The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project

Third Edition
by Zina O’Leary

Student Resources

  • Videos
    • Research Proposals including Research Plans
    • Coming Up With a Research Question
    • Getting Ethics Approval
    • Struggling with a Literature Review
    • Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed-Methods
    • Data Collection
    • Working with Primary Data
    • Using the Internet for Research
    • Data Management
    • Writing Up Your Research
  • Preparing for the Research Project
    • Checklist for Negotiating Expectations
  • Forming Research Questions
    • Checklist for Question Generation
    • Checklist for ‘Good’ Questions
  • Managing Respondents
    • Checklist for Managing Subjectives
    • Checklist for Integrity
  • Seeking Ethical Approval
    • Checklist for Ethical Treatment
    • Downloadable Templates and Samples
  • Developing Research Proposals
    • Checklist for Elements of a Research Proposal
    • Checklist for Writing a Research Proposal
    • Links to Additional Online Resources
  • Crafting Literature Reviews
    • Checklist for Writing a Literature Review
    • Sample Literature Reviews
    • Links to Additional Online Resources
  • Choosing and Practising Appropriate Methods
    • Checklist for Assessing Practicality
    • Checklist for Fundamental Methods Questions
    • Checklist for Experimental Design
    • Checklist for Achieving Credibility in Qualitative Studies
    • Checklist for Mixed Methods Perspectives
    • Checklist for Methods Appropriate to Evaluate Research
    • Checklist for Managing Action Research
    • Examples of Student Research Projects
    • Links to Additional Online Resources
  • Managing Respondents
    • Checklist for Selecting Respondents
  • Collecting Data
    • Checklist for Surveys
    • Checklist for Interviewing
    • Checklist for Facilitating a Good Interview
    • Checklist for Observation
    • Checklist for Exploring Text
  • Analysing Data
    • Steps in Secondary Data Analysis
    • Steps in Systematic Data Analysis
    • Steps in Meta-analysis
    • Questions for Keeping the Bigger Picture in Focus
    • Quantitative Data Management
    • Steps in Quantitative Analysis
    • Qualitative Data Management
    • Steps in Qualitative Analysis
    • Links to Additional Online Resources
  • Writing and Presenting Research
    • Steps in Constructing your Storyline
    • Checklist for Drafting and Redrafting
    • Checklist for Creating a Powerful Presentation
    • Checklist for Getting Published
  • Further Reading
  • Study skills

Links to Additional Online Resources

Content Analysis

Content-analysis.de is a site dedicated to resources related to content analysis

Student video of a content analysis project exploring Super Bowl advertisements

Student video of a content analysis project exploring women of colour in Cosmopolitan magazine advertisements

Video showing a content analysis project exploring masculinity in Disney Films
 

Thematic Analysis Information and Examples

Short example of thematic coding

Graham Gibbs from the University of Huddersfield – videos on Thematic Analysis, parts 1-5:

  • http://youtu.be/7X7VuQxPfpk
  • http://youtu.be/B_YXR9kp1_o
  • http://youtu.be/3oo8ZcBJIEY
  • http://youtu.be/5xM-9yuBhMc
  • http://youtu.be/DVpkuTdkZvA

Longer research paper using thematic analysis

  • http://www.ucd.ie/geary/static/publications/workingpapers/gearywp201116.pdf
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166520

 

Online resources with student research project examples

University of Wisconsin – Food and nutritional science projects

University of Washington – School of Public Health projects

St Mary’s College – Sociology projects

University of the Sunshine – Arts projects

University of Nottingham – Economics projects

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