The Career Professional’s Guide to Research
eBook - ePub

The Career Professional’s Guide to Research

How to Plan and Deliver Excellence in Research

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eBook - ePub

The Career Professional’s Guide to Research

How to Plan and Deliver Excellence in Research

About this book

"This book fills a vital gap, offering not only a truly accessible and comprehensive manual for beginning researchers, but also a very helpful resource for experienced researchers. A foundational work in its topic, it should be essential reading for careers professionals working in every part of our sector." Oliver Jenkin, Career Development Professional and Editor of the CDI's magazine, Career Matters

  • Is there a specific client group whose needs you'd like to understand better?
  • Do you have a project to evaluate or are you attempting to unpick some fundamentals of practice?
  • Are you proposing a new way of working, but you simply don't know where to begin? 

If these are questions you've found yourself asking, then you're not alone. Many career practitioners would like to use their workplace as the basis for research in the career development sector, but are either lacking in confidence or unsure of where to start. 

Expert careers researcher, Emma Bolger, provides answers to these questions and many more. She explains why it matters that you conduct research, then expertly guides you through the whole process, from planning through to delivery, to ensure your research is robust and ethically sound.

This definitive guide offers: 

Real-world case studies: to demonstrate real-life strategies employed by fellow practitioners and stakeholders when conducting their research.

User-friendly content: written in a clear, accessible format to support every practitioner at whatever stage they are on in their career research journey.

Actionable insights: with tools, techniques and strategies to help practitioners overcome specific challenges in the research process.

This accessible and practical handbook provides you with everything you need to succeed on your career practitioner-researcher journey.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. About the author
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Chapter 1 The importance of career practitioner-led research
  9. Chapter 2 What makes a good researcher?
  10. Chapter 3 What makes a good research topic?
  11. Chapter 4 Ethics
  12. Chapter 5 Obtaining information and using valid data
  13. Chapter 6 Research methods: Quantitative and qualitative data collection tools
  14. Chapter 7 Writing a research proposal/plan
  15. Chapter 8 Conducting and troubleshooting your project
  16. Chapter 9 Bringing it together: Findings and data analysis
  17. Chapter 10 Dissemination (sharing and promoting your research)
  18. Chapter 11 Where next? Developing your role as a researcher
  19. General resources
  20. Project templates