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Author Holloway, Immy.

Title Getting a PhD in health and social care / Immy Holloway, Jan Walker
Published Oxford ; Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Science, 2000

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Description xiii, 186 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword / Justus Akinsanya -- Pt. 1. Preparation -- 1. The Nature of the Research Degree -- 2. Preparing for Enrolment -- 3. Research Supervision -- 4. Selecting a Research Topic and Methodology -- 5. The Importance of Ethical Issues -- 6. Reviewing the Literature -- 7. Writing the Proposal -- Pt. 2. Progress and Procedures -- 8. Progress, Transfer and Monitoring Processes -- 9. Avoiding Problems -- 10. Writing Up -- 11. The Examination -- 12. Disseminating the Research -- Epilogue: Student and Supervisor Experiences
Summary "Getting a Ph.D. in Health and Social Care will enable research students to take control of the various processes involved in postgraduate research study." "It is an authoritative account of the key issues and challenges which postgraduate researchers in health or social care face in the quest for completion of an M.Phil. or Ph.D."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Medical care -- Research -- Methodology.
Public welfare -- Research -- Methodology.
Human services -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
Social service -- Research -- Methodology.
Social work education -- Great Britain.
Community health services -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- Great Britain.
Human services -- Research.
Dissertations, Academic.
Author Walker, Jan, 1946-
LC no. 99035390
ISBN 0632050578 paperback