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How to do research : and how to be a researcher / Robert Stewart.

Stewart, Robert (Professor of psychiatric epidemiology), (author.).

Summary:

"There are many textbooks on research methods, but these tend to be targeted at particular disciplines. Equally, there are plenty of books on popular science and other academic fields, but few that provide an overview of career opportunities or a framework for getting started. The principles underlying humanity's past and continuing acquisition of knowledge are straightforward and are illustrated here across academic fields, from history to quantum physics - stories of clever and inventive people with good ideas, but also of personalities, politics, and power. This book draws together these strands to provide an informal and concise account of knowledge acquisition in all its guises"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780192868657
ISBN: 0192868659
Physical Description: xi, 258 pages : illustrartions ; 24 cm
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2022
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.