The Research Student's Guide to Success

3. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-335-22963-5
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

A must read for all research students!

“The core material in Professor Cryer’s previous editions is classic. I welcome this new edition setting it into current contexts.” – PhD supervisor

“When I was doing my own PhD, Pat Cryer’s book was my constant reference companion. Now I am recommending her latest edition to my own students.” – PhD supervisor

Insightful, wide-ranging and accessible, this is an invaluable tool for postgraduate research students and for students at all levels working on research projects, irrespective of their field of study.

This edition has been thoroughly revised to accommodate the changes in postgraduate education over recent years. Additional material and new emphases take into account:

- the QAA Code of Practice for Postgraduate Research Programmes

- recommendations of the Roberts Review

- the needs of the growing number of ‘overseas’ research students

- employment issues (including undergraduate teaching)

- the Internet as a resource for research.

There are new chapters on:

- developing the research proposal

- succeeding as an ‘overseas’ research student

- ethics in research

- personal development planning (PDP)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cryer, Pat

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Preface to the third edition

Why and how to use this book

Exploring routes, opportunities and funding

Making an application

Producing the research proposal

Settling in and taking stock

Interacting with supervisors

Reading round the subject: working procedures

Reading round the subject: evaluating quality

Handling ethical issues

Managing influences of personal circumstances

Succeeding as an 'overseas' research student

Managing your skills development

Planning out the work

Getting into a productive routine

Co-operating with others for mutual support

Producing progress reports

Giving presentations on your work

Transferring registration from MPhil to PhD

Coming to terms with originality in research

Developing ideas through creative thinking

Keeping going when you feel like giving up

Job seeking

Producing the thesis

Handling the oral/viva/thesis defence

Afterwards!

Appendix - Skills training requirements for research students: Joint Statement by the UK Research Councils

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pat Cryer is Visiting Professor for the Development of Graduate Education at the University of Manchester. She has headed various studies on the needs of postgraduate research students and their supervisors, which she converted into practical support by setting up a national network for academics on postgraduate issues and a series of guides on postgraduate issues for academics, published jointly by the Society for Research into Higher Education and the Times Higher Education Supplement.