Doing Development Research

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION/The Raison d'etre of Doing Development Research/PART TWO: STRATEGIC ISSUES IN PLANNING SOUND RESEARCH/Doing Fieldwork in Developing Countries/Planning and Logistics/Ethical Practices in Doing Development Research/Working in Different Cultures/Issues of Race, Ethnicity and Identity/Women, Men and Fieldwork/Gender Relations and Power Structures/Working with Children in Development/Collecting Sensitive and Contentious Information/Dealing with Conflicts and Emergency Situations/Working with Partners/Educational Institutions/Working with Partners/Government Ministries/Working with Partners/NGOs and CBOs/Doing Development Studies 'At Home'/PART THREE: INFORMATION AND DATA COLLECTION METHODS/METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ASSOCIATED FORMS OF ANALYSIS/Quantitative, Qualitative or Participatory/Which Method, for What and When?/Field Surveys and Inventories/Interviewing/Focus Groups/Your Questions Answered: Conducting Questionnnaire Surveys/Lost in Translation? The Use of Interpreters in Fieldwork/Ethnographic and Participant Observation/Participatory Methods and Approaches/Tackling the Two Tyrannies/Diaries and Case Studies/USING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND RECORDS/Literature Reviews and Bibliographic Searches/Using the Indigenous Local Knowledge and Literature/Using Images, Films and Photography/Using Archives/Remote Sensing, GIS and Ground Truthing/The Importance of Census and Other Secondary Data in Development Studies/Using the World Wide Web for Development Research/Data from International Agencies/DISSEMINATING FINDINGS/RESEARCH/Writing an Effective Research Report or Dissertation/How is Research Communicated Professionally?