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Completing Your Research Project
A Guide for the Social Sciences

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January 2025 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is a companion guide for anyone completing a research project in the social sciences. It covers the whole research process, from planning, developing, collecting data, analysing data, and writing up. It will help you manage and complete your research project successfully.

It will guide you on:

-Planning your research project
-Developing data collection tools
-Analysing and interpreting data
-Presenting your research in different formats

Featuring chapter objectives, checklists, student exercises, weblinks, and further reading, this comprehensive guide ensures readers navigate the complexities of research within a manageable step-by-step framework.

 
Introduction
 
Chapter One: What is Social Science Research and Why is it Important?
 
Chapter Two: Planning a Social Science Research Project
 
Chapter Three: Reviewing Social Science Literature
 
Chapter Four: Being an Ethical Researcher
 
Chapter Five: Methods of Social Science Data Collection
 
Chapter Six: Social Science Data Analysis
 
Chapter Seven: Presenting Your Social Science Research
 
Chapter Eight: Introducing and Concluding
 
Chapter Nine: Submitting Your Social Science Research Project

'Doing a first research project can be intimidating. This offers a practical guide for the puzzled student. Written in an easy to read, conversational style, full of helpful examples, this will become the key book in the field'.

David Silverman
Visiting Professor at the Business Schools University of Technology, Sydney; King’s College, London; and Leeds University.

Completing Your Research Project is a comprehensive guide for social science students. It takes the reader through planning, the collection and analysis of data, presenting findings, writing up and submission and what examiners are looking for in their assessments. This is an authoritative book that students will find invaluable.

Tim May
Honorary Distinguished Professor, University of Cardiff.

This is a really useful clearly written textbook which will provide guidance to my Level 7 students (MBA and Senior Leader Apprentices), many of whom have limited prior experience of undertaking research projects.

Professor Steve Johnson
Dept of Business, Management & Market, Leeds Trinity University
March 4, 2025

A good insight into social science research tools and project management. This book is competing in an area where a number of ket texts already exsist

Dr Martin Bouette
School of Art Design & Media, Brighton University
April 8, 2025

I really appreceated this book because it presents the research process in a clear, well-structured and accessible way - ideal for students at the beginning of their academic journey. The practical reflection questions are especially useful in helping students start developing their own research ideas. It's a good addition to the reading list, though not essential, as my first-semester students are German-speaking and have some specific needs.

Dr Oliver Schwarz
Department of Sociology, University Duisburg-Essen
March 24, 2025

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Charlotte Brookfield

Charlotte Brookfield is a Reader at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences. Charlotte is based in the Cardiff Q-Step Centre of Excellence in Quantitative Methods Teaching and Learning. The Centre is one of eighteen across the UK which aim to enhance the quantitative research methods training experience for social science students. The pedagogic activities of the Centre have influenced Charlotte’s research interests and in particular, she is interested in exploring the extent to which British sociology engages with quantitative approaches and the possible factors that may contribute toward sociology students’ resistance to study and... More About Author

Jamie Lewis

Jamie Lewis is a Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University’s School of Social Sciences. His research is mainly situated in the Sociology of Science and Technology Studies (STS), but also extends to the public understanding of science (PUS) and medical sociology. He is presently working on a Expert Citizen Science project on air pollution. He is one of the authors of Psychiatric Genetics: from hereditary madness to big biology and is writing a book examining the development and stabilisation of Bigfootology. His area of research interests include:·         developments in... More About Author

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