Description

Embarking on your own psychology research? This book equips you with the skills you need to complete a qualitative project confidently.

The book takes you through the process of doing your project, showing how to plan and execute each stage. It helps you make good decisions about key steps such as choosing a research topic, designing your project, doing ethical research and writing up.

This second edition:

• Offers a host of learning features including 'in a nutshell' summaries, further reading, activities and top tips to help you develop your understanding and skills.
• Devotes more space to the important topics of project planning and doing ethical research with a new chapter on each.
• Enables you to critically evaluate your work, helping you conduct high-quality research.
• Discusses student success stories and cautionary tales illustrating, from start to finish, how qualitative projects are done in the real world.

This is the perfect guide for undergraduates doing a final project or dissertation, and postgraduates who are relatively new to qualitative research.