Demystifying Postgraduate Research

The first complete introduction to the new model of social science and humanities postgraduate research. Based on the leading current course of postgraduate research training, a programme that will become the norm for postgraduate research over the next two or three years. Designed as a set text for '3 plus 1' and similar programmes.
* The key tools and terminology of research
* What to do before beginning the project
* Funding
* All about the student-supervisor relationship
* The viva examination
* The process of writing a thesis
* Ethics and plagiarism in research, especially the use of the internet
* How to get published

About the author

Jonathan Grix is Reader in Sport Policy and Politics at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Grix, Grix Jonathan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2001
• EAN: 9781902459356
• ISBN: 978-1-902459-35-6
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 245 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Study & learning skills: general, Social research & statistics, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Social research and statistics, STUDY AIDS / Study & Test-Taking Skills, Study and learning skills: general, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher