Research Methods for Postgraduates

Part I: First Steps
1. A View of Research
2. The Research Journey: Four Steps to Success
3. Managing Your Doctorate
4. Documenting Your Work
5. Ethics of Research
6. Plagiarism
7. Critically Reviewing Your Own Research

Part II: Support
8. Research Proposals for Funding
9. Who Can Help?
10. Information and Library Services
11. Research Methods for Advanced Web Searching
12. Searching in Unfamiliar Fields
13. Sources of Population Statistics
14. An Introduction to Bibliometrics
15. Choosing and Using Software for Statistics
16. Computer Support for Data Analysis

Part III: Measurement and Experimentation. Instrumentation in Experimentation
17. Instrumentation and Experimentation
18. Randomized Trials
19. Laboratory and Industrial Experiments
20. Experiments in Biological Sciences
21. Survey Research
22. Theory and Practice of Qualitative Research
23. Kansei Engineering
24. Principles of Sampling
25. Sampling in Human Studies
26. Interviewing
27. Measurement Error

Part IV: Data Analysis. Elementary Statistics
28. Elementary Statistics
29. Further Statistical Methods
30. Spreadsheets: A Few Tips

Part V: Special Tools
31. The Value of Mathematical Model
32. Determine Models
33. Stochastic Models and Simulation
34. Optimisation

Part VI: Presentation
35. Writing the Thesis
36. The Logic of a Research Report
37. Presenting Data
38. Presenting and Sharing Your Research
39. Reporting Research
40. Social Media : How to Make It Work for You as a Post-Graduate

Part VII: Next Steps
41. Protection and Exploitation of Intellectual Property
42. Career Opportunities