Getting a Phd in Health and Social Care

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This text is written specifically for health and social care professionals from practical as well as academic backgrounds! providing academic! professional and practical advice and guidelines for all potential students in health care. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....

Product details

• Authors: HOLLOWAY, Cynthia Holloway, Immy Holloway, Holloway Immy, Walker, Jan Walker
• Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780632050574
• ISBN: 978-0-632-05057-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Test Preparation & Review, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Medical study, exam preparation and revision guides, Medical study & revision guides