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How to Do Your Research Project: A Guide for Students

Third Edition
by Gary Thomas

Student Resources

  • Base Camp 1: Introduction
    • Activity 1: Topics You Enjoy
    • Activity 2: Brainstorm Topics
    • Activity 3: Key Issues when Choosing a Question
  • Base Camp 2: How are You going to Manage the Project
    • Activity: Create a Broad Plan
  • Base Camp 3: Think about Your Research Question
    • Activity 1: Getting a Feel for the Literature
    • Activity 2: Create a Gantt Chart
  • Base Camp 4: Ask an Even Better Question
    • Activity 1: Evaluate Your Sources of Information
    • Activity 2: Record Everything that You Read
    • Activity 3: Draw a Storyboard
  • Base Camp 5: Think about how to Answer the Question
    • Activity 1: Compose Your Question
    • Activity 2: Test Your Question
    • Activity 3: Unpack Your Question
  • Base Camp 6: How will Your Research be Designed and Framed?
    • Activity 1: Choose Your Methodology
    • Activity 2: Choose Your Approach
    • Activity 3: Match the Theorist to the Theory
    • Activity 4: Structure Your Project
    • Activity 5: Outline Your Method
    • Activity 6: Outline Your Sample
  • Base Camp 7: Doing the Research
    • Activity: Decide Your Data Collection Method
  • Base Camp 8: Analysing Your Findings
    • Activity: Analyse and Discuss Your Data
  • Base Camp 9: Drawing Your Conclusion
    • Activity: Conclusion, Structure and References
  • Worksheets
  • Journal Articles
  • Case Studies
  • Videos
    • Your New Supervisor: Gary Thomas
    • The Roadmap: How it can Help You do Your Research Project
    • The Toughest Stage of the Research Project, and how the Book can Help
    • The Five Most Important Aspects Someone Who is New to Research needs to Consider
    • What to do when You have a Problem
    • How to use the Resources on this Website to Support Your Project
    • Gary Thomas' Favourite Thing about the New Edition
    • Why the Notes Column is Useful
    • The Nine Steps for doing Your Research Project
  • Flashcards

Case Studies

Challenges of Undertaking an Action Research Project and Lessons Learnt from a Supervised Novice Researcher's Perspectives

Ethnographic Fieldwork: Conducting Close-Proximity Research on Mexican Organized Crime

Gatekeepers: People Who Can (and Do) Stop Your Research in Its Tracks

In-Depth Participant Interviews: Studying Social Support Among Obese and Overweight Young Adults Attempting to Lose Weight

Photovoice: Doing Assessed Research as an Undergraduate from a Critical Standpoint

A Small Qualitative Peer Research Project Exploring the Return-to-Work Experiences of Young Stroke Survivors

Recruiting and Engaging With Study Participants: Practical Advice and Guidance Applicable to Health Care Research for Early Career Researchers

Speech and Language Development in a Forest School Environment: An Action Research Project

The Evaluation of the ‘Teens and Toddlers’ Youth Programme: A Randomised Controlled Trial

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