Managing Social Research : A Practical Guide.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Social Research Today Series
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Aim of the book
- Plan of the book
- Definitions of project, research and management
- Social research in the UK
- Legal and ethical framework
- 2. Stakeholder and risk analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
- Five steps in a stakeholder analysis
- Action plan
- Risk assessment analysis
- Six steps in a risk assessment analysis
- A risk log
- What goes wrong with social research projects?
- Example: Sport and Leisure Activities for Young People
- 3. Commissioning research
- Competition
- Preparing a specification of requirement
- Project budget
- Running a competition
- European Union Procurement Rules
- 4. Applying for research funding
- Modes of research funding
- Funders of social research
- Preparing a proposal
- Costing a project
- Success rates
- 5. Negotiation to contract
- How to negotiate
- Issues that often need to be negotiated and clarified
- The contract
- Further negotiations
- 6. Project planning
- Activities
- Dependencies
- Gantt chart
- Milestones
- Itemising resources and assigning responsibilities
- Microsoft Project 2000
- 7. Research staff
- Employment law
- Contract research staff
- Safety of researchers
- 8. Implementing the project
- Liaison with the sponsor
- Managing the team
- Monitoring, controlling and directing
- Maintaining quality of fieldwork, data collection and analysis
- 9. Dissemination
- Dissemination strategy
- Report writing
- Oral presentations
- 10. Intellectual property, copyright, confidentiality and data protection
- Copyright
- Confidentiality
- Data Protection Act
- 11. Ethics in social research
- Codes of ethics
- Ethical review and regulation
- 12. Summary
- Twenty questions for the project manager.
- Qualities required of a project manager
- Bibliography
- Index.