Agriculture & Food Science: Starting a Research Project

Designing Qualitative Research by Uwe Flick Providing a comprehensive guide to devising an effective research design, Uwe Flick discusses each stage of the process of designing qualitative research in detail, including formulating a research design, selecting an appropriate strategy, conceptual framework and data source, and collecting and analyzing data.

Doing Interviews by Steinar Kvale Interviewing is an invaluable tool for the qualitative researcher. Steinar Kvale provides coverage of both the theoretical background and the practical aspects of the interview process, incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview based research and the different approaches to reading the data. Consideration is also given to the crucial issue of how to ensure scientific rigour.

Managing Quality in Qualitative Research by Uwe Flick 'Flick's argumentation in this book is convincing. It provides a good overview of the problems of quality assessment in qualitative research and makes constructive suggestions about how to deal with them' - Thomas S. Eberle, University of St Gallen, Switzerland. The issue of quality in qualitative research is one that is often neglected. In Managing Quality in Qualitative Research attention is given to the fundamental question of how to define and assess the quality of research. Uwe Flick examines how to distinguish good research from bad research when it comes to teaching, planning, evaluating and publishing qualitative research.

Analysing Qualitative Data by Graham R. Gibbs Outlining how to select the most appropriate tool for analyzing data, Analysing Qualitative Data also provides the reader with an awareness of the various challenges that are unique to interpreting the conceptual and subjective data generated in qualitative research.

eBook: How to read a paper [electronic resource} : the basics of evidence-based medicine by Greenhalgh, Trisha.

How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh

Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care by Helen Aveyard

Communication Skills for Biosciences by Maureen Dawson; Brian Dawson; Joyce Overfield

Study and Communication Skills for the Biosciences by Stuart Johnson; Jon Scott

Writing Papers in the Biological Sciences by Victoria E. McMillan

Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words by David Lindsay