How to Keep Your Research Project on Track

Edited by Keith Townsend and Mark N. Saunders

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Bringing together valuable insights from a range of research experts, PhD supervisors and examiners, this thoroughly revised second edition of How to Keep Your Research Project on Track details how to deal with the unexpected difficulties of research, and what to do when a project deviates from the plan. Keith Townsend and Mark N.K. Saunders give us essential insights for carrying out research, as well as developing resilience in academia.

Keywords: Business and Management; Education; Research Methods; General Academic Interest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 9781035332717
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The more things change, the more things stay as they are! , pp 1-9

Keith Townsend and Mark N.K. Saunders

Ch 2 How to develop research projects , pp 11-19

Carol Atkinson

Ch 3 On the path to enlightenment? Reviewing the literature systematically - or not , pp 20-27

Céline Rojon

Ch 4 The PhD supervisor-candidate relationship , pp 28-35

Jillian Cavanagh, Hannah Meacham and Timothy Bartram

Ch 5 ‘Finders, keepers, losers, weepers!’ A doctoral candidate’s reality of changing thesis advisors , pp 36-42

Polly Black

Ch 6 Benefits, pitfalls, ethics and realities of GenAI in research , pp 43-57

Jerome Kiley

Ch 7 Awful #14: putting on my novice researcher’s shoes and developing my research question , pp 58-61

Deisi Yunga-Godoy

Ch 8 Reply all, tweets and social media: technological friends for developing a professional identity that need to be treated with care , pp 62-63

Hugh T.J. Bainbridge

Ch 9 Epistemological odyssey: a journey of self-discovery , pp 65-70

Neve Abgeller

Ch 10 A tale of two surveys: reaching respondents using Web questionnaires , pp 71-78

Mark N.K. Saunders

Ch 11 Finding the truth amongst conflicting evidence , pp 79-88

Heather Short

Ch 12 Dealing with the practical difficulties of case studies , pp 89-98

Kenneth Cafferkey and Hetal Doshi

Ch 13 Is a pilot necessary? , pp 99-100

Polly Black

Ch 14 Access confirmed? , pp 101-101

Wojciech Marek Kwiatkowski

Ch 15 So, I guess we’re probably finished then , pp 102-102

Keith Townsend

Ch 16 Your incentives are too lucrative: caution in rewarding interview participants , pp 103-104

Catheryn Khoo

Ch 17 Sales skills for researchers , pp 105-107

Colin Hughes

Ch 18 Being flexible in interviews: make sure that you account for power imbalance , pp 108-109

Qian Yi Lee

Ch 19 What precisely do you mean? Interpreting qualitative data , pp 111-118

Rebecca Loudoun and Keith Townsend

Ch 20 Analysing quantitative data , pp 119-125

Sameer Qaiyum and Catherine L. Wang

Ch 21 When the words just wont come , pp 126-134

Dawn C. Duke

Ch 22 Conducting research ‘with’ and not just ‘on’ organisations , pp 135-142

Carol Woodhams

Ch 23 Where, oh where, is my golden thread? , pp 143-151

Vivienne Spooner and Helena Barnard

Ch 24 I’m a paper person or maybe not? , pp 152-153

Ilenia Bregoli

Ch 25 A mug of stress , pp 154-155

Rohit Talwar

Ch 26 Excuse me … should that comma be there? Dealing with awkward questions , pp 156-157

Kenneth Cafferkey

Ch 27 Finding the time to progress your research, and the big lie that you are part of! , pp 158-160

Jennifer Kilroy

Ch 28 Authorship in action , pp 162-169

Kate L. Daunt and Aoife M. McDermott

Ch 29 ‘Will I ever be good enough?’: Using feedback constructively , pp 170-176

Amanda Lee

Ch 30 Grasping roses or nettles? Losing and finding ourselves in research projects , pp 177-185

Kiran Trehan, Alex Kevill and Jane Glover

Ch 31 The problem with peer review … they say as if there’s only one problem … , pp 186-193

Keith Townsend, Adrian Wilkinson, Andrew Timming and Rebecca Loudoun

Ch 32 My research journey in the offline and online world of social media , pp 194-203

Samreen Ashraf

Ch 33 Scribble, leave it, type it, change it , pp 204-206

Mark N.K. Saunders

Ch 34 I’m over it … , pp 207-208

Peter J. Jordan

Ch 35 The skill of bouncing back: a toolkit for developing resilience in academia , pp 209-217

Mollie Bryde-Evens and Rebecca Beech

Ch 36 I have left the country, but the project continues , pp 218-219

Stefan Jooss

Ch 37 To Dean, or not to Dean, that is the question , pp 220-228

Jenna Ward

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