Contents

• Unit 1. Setting yourself up for success : 1. The psychology project as a means of acquiring knowledge
• 2. Ethics for research in psychology
• 3. choosing a topic and the research proposal
• 4. A connected and convincing argument
• 5. Self-management
• 6. Maximising supervision
• 7. How to handle the research literature
• 8. How to write a good introduction
• 9. Sampling considerations
• 10. Sourcing materials and measures for psychological research
• Unit 2. Quantitative methods of inquiry : 11. Quantitative methods of inquiry
• 12. Analysing quantitative data
• 13. Designing and conducting an experimental research project
• 14. Writing up your quantitative methodology
• 15. Writing up you qualitative results section
• 16. Writing up your quantitative discussion section
• Unit 3. Qualitative methods of inquiry : 17. Qualitative methods of inquiry
• 18. Qualitative data analysis
• 19. The semi-structured interview as part of grounded theory
• 10. Designing, conducting and analysing a grounded theory project
• 21. Writing up your qualitative methodology
• 22. Writing up your qualitative findings and discussion
• Unit 4. The final touches : 23. Title and abstract
• 24. References - - 25. The final write-up
• App.A. Students’ personal experiences of their psychology project
• App. B. Carrying common statistical analyses using SPSS V14