Stewart, Robert (Professor of psychiatric epidemiology),
How to do research : and how to be a researcher /
Robert Stewart.
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Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Image Credit Lines -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origin Stories -- 3 God or Clockwork?: The Importance of Ignorance -- 4 Careful Observation -- 5 Ideas under Pressure -- 6 Choosing a Solution -- 7 The Ideal and the Reality -- 8 Consensus -- 9 Designing Research: From Description to Theory-Building -- 10 Designing Research: Experiments -- 11 Designing Research: Alternatives to Experiments -- 12 Designing Research: R&D -- 13 Communication 1: Getting Published -- 14 Communication 2: Getting Known -- 15 Money -- 16 Power and Politics -- 17 How to be a Researcher: Some Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book is for anyone embarking on a research project or beginning to think about a career involving research, and for those in need of refocusing on why they started research in the first place.