Organizing and Managing Your Research: A Practical Guide for Postgraduates

by Renata Phelps, Kath Fisher, Allan H Ellis

Organizing and Managing Your A Practical Guide for Postgraduates deals with the practical, day-to-day aspects of managing and organizing research. It focuses on strategies, skills, and systems that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of research practice across all research disciplines. Written in an accessible, non-technical style that speaks directly to the reader in a personal and collegial voice, this text gives practical advice and offers many tips and strategies gleaned from experienced researchers. The written text is accompanied by a website that provides downloadable templates and live links to appropriate sites.

Genres: Research

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Graham · Rating 2 out of 5]

Essentially a research guide for a variety of postgraduates working in a range of disciplines, ORGANISING AND MANAGING YOUR RESEARCH would have made a useful and practical guide on its release some twenty years ago. Sadly, when read today, the material featured herein is so out of date as to render this completely useless to the modern reader. The authors take a broad, simple, nuts-and-bolts approach to the topic, so instead of theory you get chapters discussing the types of computer equipment and software you can usefully use in your studies. One of the most telling examples of this book's age is when it recommends Windows 2000 and XP as 'modern' operating systems. In the end, it's just one of many similar guides designed to introduce analogue students to the digital age; society has moved on considerably since then, so you can safely skip reading this one.

[Alisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately it didn't add much to what I already knew about managing projects. A few tips here and there. It had uses but I was looking for more depth. I'll give it points for being practical.

[Silvan Pretl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good general overview for complete novices, logically structured, but a lot of recommendations outdated now.

[Sabrina · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is very outdated and simplistic. There were some good tips. It was a good book to reinforce what I am already doing/have learnt as PhD student.