Grant Doing Your Research Project with Documents

A Step-By-Step Guide to Take You from Start to Finish
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4404-9
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 240 mm

Students and researchers have an abundance of materials and sources available to them via the internet for use in their projects. However, there is little practical guidance available on the fundamentals of performing qualitative research with documents.

This valuable book enables readers to undertake high-quality, robust research using documents as data. Encouraging critical consideration of research design, the book guides readers step-by-step through the process of planning and undertaking a research project based on documentary analysis. It covers selecting a research topic and sample through to analysing and writing up the data.

The book includes:

• a wealth of case studies demonstrating how lessons can be applied in practice;

• summary boxes and suggestions for further reading in each chapter to guide learning;

• helpful online resources to facilitate designing your own research.

Accessible and comprehensive, this book will be invaluable for both students and researchers alike who are new to documentary analysis.

All the resources included in this book are available to download on the book’s webpage at https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/doing-your-research-project-with-documents/online-resources. Look for the Online Resources logo throughout the book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grant, Aimee

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I: GETTING GOING

Working productively

Working with your supervisor

Working ethically

Working reflexively and safely

PART II: MAKING DECISIONS

Reviewing literature and writing your literature review

Finding sources

Choosing an analysis approach

Writing research questions and your methods chapter

PART III: GETTING IT DONE!

Collecting and analysing data and writing your results chapter

Assessing data quality and writing your discussion chapter

Creating the final dissertation

Concluding remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Grant, Aimee
Aimee Grant is Senior Lecturer in Public Health and a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow, researching gender, disability and health, at Swansea University.

Aimee Grant is a qualitative researcher with a long-standing interest in documentary analysis. She is based at Swansea University’s Centre for Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translational Research.