| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Planning your research | p. 1 |
| Key terms in research | |
| Planning your research | |
| The six stages of research | |
| Choosing your research topic and formulating your research design | |
| Why formulate an overall research question? | |
| Choosing your research approach and design - quantitative and qualitative research | |
| Quantitative research | |
| Some examples of student projects using a quantitative approach | |
| Qualitative research | |
| Some examples of student projects using a qualitative approach | |
| Do I really have to discuss epistemology? | |
| Research designs from particular traditions | |
| Clinical data mining (CDM) | |
| Ethnography | |
| Practice-near research | |
| Addressing ethical issues and research governance | |
| A research attitude | |
| Undertaking a literature review | p. 23 |
| What is a literature review? | |
| Moving from a research topic to a specific research question | |
| Conducting your literature search | |
| How do I start my literature search? | |
| Effective reading and note taking | |
| What if I find too much or too little material? | |
| Critically analysing the literature | |
| Writing up your literature review | |
| Some common challenges when writing a literature review | |
| Interviews | p. 36 |
| When should interviews be used? | |
| Types of interview | |
| Recruiting and selecting participants | |
| Ensuring that your data can be analysed | |
| Developing an interview schedule | |
| Types of interview question | |
| Using vignette questions | |
| What questions should I avoid? | |
| Advantages and disadvantages of interviews | |
| Conducting the interview | |
| Recording the interview | |
| Transcribing audio recording of interviews | |
| Ethical data management | |
| Focus groups | p. 50 |
| Defining focus groups | |
| Combining focus groups with other research methods | |
| Advantages of focus groups | |
| Disadvantages of focus groups | |
| When not to use focus groups | |
| Selecting and recruiting participants | |
| 'Naturally occurringÆ and 'strangerÆ groups | |
| Recruiting and selecting participants | |
| Homogeneous or heterogeneous group? | |
| Planning your focus group | |
| Developing a discussion guide | |
| Role of the group moderator | |
| Managing the group | |
| Recording and transcribing | |
| Data analysis issues | |
| Questionnaires | p. 65 |
| When is it appropriate to use questionnaires? | |
| The five stages of completing a questionnaire study | |
| Stage 1 Deciding your research question and design | |
| Stage 2 Developing your questionnaire | |
| Stage 3 Sampling | |
| Stage 4 Data collection | |
| Stage 5 Analysing your data and presenting your findings | |
| Strengths and limitations of questionnaires | |
| Documentary analysis | p. 79 |
| Common pitfalls | |
| Stage 1 Deciding your research question and designing your research | |
| Stage 2 Deciding which documents to analyse and what to include in your sample | |
| Stage 3 Collecting and analysing your data | |
| Analysing your data | p. 92 |
| Analysing qualitative data | |
| Analysing quantitative data | |
| Avoiding common mistakes in data analysis | |
| Writing up your dissertation | p. 109 |
| The process of writing | |
| Structuring your dissertation | |
| Writing your abstract | |
| Writing your introduction | |
| Writing your literature review | |
| Writing your methodology section | |
| Presenting and discussing your qualitative data | |
| Presenting and discussing your quantitative data | |
| Writing your conclusion | |
| Some general points | |
| Referencing and proofreading your work | |
| Disseminating and publishing your work | |
| Conclusion | p. 122 |
| Professional Capabilities Framework | p. 124 |
| Subject Benchmark for Social Work | p. 125 |
| Glossary | p. 128 |
| References | p. 132 |
| Index | p. 139 |
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