Doing Work Based Research
Approaches to Enquiry for Insider-Researchers
- Carol Costley - University of Middlesex
- Geoffrey C Elliott - University of Worcester, UK
- Paul Gibbs - University of Middlesex
With the growth of practitioner research, this book leads the way by addressing key issues faced by 'insider researchers' – those doing research projects in the organizations and communities in which they themselves work, or where they are already familiar with the setting.
The authors explore the implications of these research contexts, and discuss approaches and methodologies that researchers in these contexts might adopt, with a particular focus on ethics - one of the key concerns for students undertaking a research project of this type.
This book is for anyone undertaking a research project based on work practice, including postgraduate, undergraduate and doctoral students. Students on work-based programs or modules including education, healthcare and business courses, whose research projects are often undertaken in workplace settings, will find it particularly useful.
An excellent, easy to read and very practical text for students and health care practitioners who are contemplating undertaking research in their own work place environment.
Considering the effects of being the researcher from the "inside" is well constructed within the text and will enable researchers to be reflexive in facing the many challenges such research can bring."
Exteremely relevant to students undertaking professional doctorate programmes, with a work - based focus to research design.
A helpfull book for our Bachelor students. The chapters with suggestions for discussion are easy to use in a course.
A really good text for part-time MBA students researching within their employing organizations. Covers some key issues in a lively and accessible way without being superficial.
This book cogently sets out the need for work-based research and its importance to our knowledge-based economy and society. The authors of this text are well known in the field of work-based learning and have brought their combined experience and wisdom together in a text that will engage as well as inform the reader. I like how this book covers work-based research from undergraduate to doctoral level and the use of exemplars from the real world of work-based research will be helpful, informative and reassuring to any practitioner contemplating or doing research in their own workplace. This is a ‘must have’ books for any practitioner, academic or researcher who is doing or has an interest in work-based research .
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Dr Ruth Davies, Director of Work Based Doctorate in Professional Practice in Health and Social Care, Swansea University .
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This is a readable and accessable book that provides a thorough resource for those working towards professional masters
The text provides a thorough introduction to issues, methods and processes around work based research. This is a highly relevant area for HE research and addreses particularly well the needs of postgraduates on professional masters and doctoral awards. It is readable and well presented.
An excellent and accessible book, essential reading for all those interested in work based research.
This is an interesting book and essential reading for doctorate students whose main concern is research in practice fields
I am assigning this as required reading BEFORE students start on their programme. It serves as an excellent introduction to concepts and methods that will be used in many of their modules of study.
