* How can I get my students to produce good PhD theses on time? * My last student failed: what could I have done to prevent it? * I am supposed to train the new supervisors in my faculty: where can I turn for help? Supervising the PhD: A Guide to Success provides 'everything you ever wanted to know about PhD supervision but were afraid to ask'! It is a practical, no-nonsense handbook for both the novice and the experienced higher degree supervisor. The novice will find a developmental sequence of advice, guiding them through all the stages of supervision from the first meeting to the viva and beyond. The experienced supervisor will find fresh ideas to improve practice and solve problems. Based both upon research amongst laboratory scientists and social scientists and on many years of experience, the book also draws upon humanities examples and so is invaluable to academics in all disciplines. At a time when there is increasing pressure to ensure 'quality' provision, to improve the PhD completion rate, and to turn out employable graduates, the need for this practical guide is obvious. Supervising the PhD is an essential item for the academic's bookshelves.

Supervising The PhD

Atkinson, Paul

Delamont, Sara

Parry, Odette

Reference

Open University Press

Book by Delamont, Sara, Atkinson, Paul, Parry, Odette

Supervising the Phd: A Guide to Success

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Open Univ Pr

Ethnographic Explorations

Whitaker, Emilie Morwenna

Routledge

In Ethnographic Explorations: Surrender and Resistance, Whitaker and Atkinson, two experienced ethnographers, explore the complexities of fieldwork, analysis and writing from new perspectives. It takes the opportunity to reflect on Ethnography not just as a methodological perspective, but at a fundamental level. In general terms, Ethnography is seen not just in terms of a set of data-collection methods, but as a more profoundly transformational perspective. The book explores a series of tensions and differences in the conceptualisation and conduct of ethnography, among them: Surrender and Catch; Strangeness and Familiarity; Intimacy and Distance; Romanticism and Modernism. It emphasises disruptions and interruptions rather than an idealised model of smoothly untroubled research. The book covers a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, illustrated with research in many social settings settings. The book is intended for researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels and at experienced researchers who want to read a different, sometimes challenging, take on ethnographic research and its outcomes.

"In Ethnographic Engagements: Encounters with the Familiar and the Strange Delamont and Atkinson, each with over forty years of experience as ethnographers, present strategies for designing, conducting and publishing research that contributes original insights. This book is aimed at researchers at postgraduate level and beyond, their supervisors and principal investigators, and at experienced investigators who want to improve their thinking. Any ethnographer will find ideas and proposals to help them reflect self-critically and creatively about their research practice"--

Ethnographic Engagements

Scholars in the social sciences are realizing more and more the extent to which the work of "scientists" in all disciplines is rhetorical, involving the persuasion of colleagues and students and depending upon textual conventions. Sociological texts themselves are part of a set of traditions and conventions that are in turn part of our academic culture. "The Ethnographic Imagination" explains how one sociological tradition - the ethnographic - has been reflected and represented in its texts. Paul Atkinson looks at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory and analyzes how their arguments are constructed and illustrated. His discussion ranges widely, from classic ethnographies of the Chicago School up to contemporary monographs. Using a wealth of illustrations, he explores how ethnographic texts persuade their readers of the authenticity of their accounts; how they portray social actors as "characters" and "types"; and how they use narrative to convey social action, and to transmit implicit sociological theory.

The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ethnography: Principles in practice

A 2nd revised edition of an introduction to the methods of ethnographic fieldwork. Features include the selection and sampling of cases, the problems of access, observation and interviewing, recording and filing data, and the process of data analysis. First published in 1990.

Ethnography: Principles in Practice

Hammersley, Martyn

Scholars in the social sciences are realizing more and more the extent to which the work of "scientists" in all disciplines is rhetorical, involving the persuasion of colleagues and students and depending upon textual conventions. Sociological texts themselves are part of a set of traditions and conventions that are in turn part of our academic culture. "The Ethnographic Imagination" explains how one sociological tradition - the ethnographic - has been reflected and represented in its texts. Paul Atkinson looks at selected sociological texts in the light of contemporary social theory and analyzes how their arguments are constructed and illustrated. His discussion ranges widely, from classic ethnographies of the Chicago School up to contemporary monographs. Using a wealth of illustrations, he explores how ethnographic texts persuade their readers of the authenticity of their accounts; how they portray social actors as "characters" and "types"; and how they use narrative to convey social action, and to transmit implicit sociological theory.

The ethnographic imagination: Textual constructions of reality

Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software and the issue of ethical regulation. There is also a new prologue and epilogue. The authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. What this means is that we must recognize that social research is part of the world that it studies. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity the authors go on to discuss and exemplify main features of ethnographic work, including: <ul>
<li>the selection and sampling of cases </li> <li>the problems of access </li> <li>observation and interviewing </li> <li>recording and filing data </li> <li>the process of data analysis and writing research reports.</li>
</ul> Throughout, the discussion draws on a wide range of illustrative material from classic and more recent studies within a global context. The new edition of this popular textbook will be an indispensable resource for students and researchers utilizing social research methods in the social sciences and cultural studies.

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Supervising The PhD

Supervising the Phd: A Guide to Success

Ethnographic Explorations

Ethnographic Explorations

Ethnographic Engagements

Ethnographic Engagements

The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Constructions of Reality

Ethnography: Principles in Practice

The ethnographic imagination: Textual constructions of reality

Ethnography: Principles in Practice