Doing Development Research

1 The raison d'etre of doing development research 2 Doing fieldwork in developing countries: planning and logistics / Tony Binns 3 Ethical practices in doing development research / Lynne Brydon 4 Working in different cultures: issues of race, ethnicity and identity / Caesar R. A. Apentiik and Jane L. Parpart 5 Women, men and fieldwork: gender relations and power structures / Janet Henshall Momsen 6 Working with children in development / Lorraine van Blerk 7 Collecting sensitive and contentious information / Margaret E. Harrison 8 Dealing with conflicts and emergency situations / Morten Boas, Kathleen M. Jennings and Timothy M. Shaw 9 Working with partners: educational institutions / Bill Gould 10 Working with partners: government ministries / Mansoor Ali and Andrew Cotton 11 Working with partners: NGOs and CBOs / Claire Mercer 12 Doing development research 'at home' / Tim Unwin 13 Quantitative, qualitative or participatory?: which method, for what and when? / Linda Mayoux 14 Field surveys and inventories / David Barker 15 Interviewing / Katie Willis 16 Focus groups / Sally Lloyd-Evans 17 Your questions answered? : conducting questionnaire surveys / David Simon 18 Lost in translation? : the use of interpreters in fieldwork / Janet Bujra 19 Ethnography and participant observation / Jan Kees van Donge 20 Participatory methods and approaches: tackling the two tyrannies / Harriot Beazley and Judith Ennew 21 Diaries and case studies / JoAnn McGregor 22 Literature reviews and bibliographic searches / Paula Meth and Glyn Williams 23 Using indigenous local knowledge and literature / Cathy McIlwaine 24 Using images, films and photography / Cheryl McEwan 25 Using archives / Michael Jennings 26 Remote sensing, GIS and ground truthing / Dennis Conway and Shanon Donnelly 27 The importance of census and other secondary data in development studies / Allan M. Findlay 28 Using the World Wide Web for development research / Emma Mawdsley 29 Data from international agencies / Jonathan Rigg 30 Writing an effective research report or dissertation / Stephen Morse 31 How is research communicated professionally? / Sally Gainsbury and Cheryl Brown