Embarking on your own psychology research? This book equips you with the skills you need to complete a qualitative project confidently.
The book takes you through the process of doing your project, showing how to plan and execute each stage. It helps you make good decisions about key steps such as choosing a research topic, designing your project, doing ethical research and writing up.
This second edition:
- Offers a host of learning features including ‘in a nutshell’ summaries, further reading, activities and top tips to help you develop your understanding and skills.
- Devotes more space to the important topics of project planning and doing ethical research with a new chapter on each.
- Enables you to critically evaluate your work, helping you conduct high-quality research.
- Discusses student success stories and cautionary tales illustrating, from start to finish, how qualitative projects are done in the real world.
This is the perfect guide for undergraduates doing a final project or dissertation, and postgraduates who are relatively new to qualitative research.
Tabella dei contenuti
Chapter 1: Getting started – Cath Sullivan, Stephen Gibson and Sarah Riley
Chapter 2: Coming up with a research question – Sarah Riley and Kathy Kinmond
Chapter 3: Planning your project – Cath Sullivan and Sarah Riley
Chapter 4: Doing ethical research – Cath Sullivan and Sarah Riley
Chapter 5: Managing your project – Sarah Riley and Nigel King
Chapter 6: Doing a literature review – Jo Bryce and Michael Forrester
Chapter 7: Collecting your data – Stephen Gibson and Siobhan Hugh-Jones
Chapter 8: Analysing your data – Stephen Gibson and Siobhan Hugh-Jones
Chapter 9: Achieving quality in your project – Cath Sullivan, Nollaig Frost and Kathryn Kinmond
Chapter 10: Writing up a qualitative project – Sarah Riley
Chapter 11: Conclusion – Cath Sullivan, Stephen Gibson and Sarah Riley
Circa l’autore
Sarah Riley is a Professor in Critical Health Psychology at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her award-winning, interdisciplinary research focuses on relationships between discourse, affect, technology, and materiality. Recent co-authored books include Technologies of Sexiness (OUP USA, 2014), Postfeminism and Health (Routledge, 2019), Postfeminism and Body Image (Routledge, 2022); and Digital Feeling (Palgrave, 2023); she chaired the British Psychology Society’s Qualitative Methods in Psychology section (2017-19), and teaches qualitative research methods.
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