Immy Holloway, Jan Walker

Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

his text acts as a survival guide handbook for Masters and Doctorate level study and also for the research methods course of undergraduate programmes. It is written specifically for health and social care professionals from academic as well as practice backgrounds and fills a niche in the market - there is no other text like it in this field. Providing academic, professional and practical advice and guidelines for all potential students in health care, medicine and all allied professions, it is relevant to part time as well as full time study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9780632050574
• ISBN-10: 0632050578
• Artikelnr.: 22046255

Autorenporträt

Immy Holloway is a professor and co-director of the Centre for Qualitative Research in the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University. Though retired from full-time work, she still takes an active role in research and PhD student supervision. As a medical sociologist she has taught health and social care professionals for over thirty years. As well as publishing a large number of articles in peer reviewed journals, she has also written, edited and co-written several books in the field of research, some of which have been translated to foreign languages.

Inhaltsangabe

Starting out: Introduction;
Influences on approaches to research;
Decisions about the research;
Choice of degree;
Starting the process;
Research supervision;
Going through the process: Writing a proposal;
Access and ethics issues;
The choice of methodology and research methods;
Major issues: From MPhil to PhD;
The monitoring process;
Writing the dissertation or thesis: The introduction;
Review of relevant literature;
The methods section;
The main body of the research;
The examination;
Problems;
Dissemination of the research.

Rezensionen

"...health and social care departmentrs will recommend this bookto their postgraduate research students because it will be aninvaluable companion during the course of their research, fromconception to completion. Journal of AdvancedNursing

"I have already asked the university library to obtain thisbook and I shall recommend it to all of my PhD students, currentand prospective. What more can I say? It is everything the blurbclaims it is. End of review!" Physiotherapy