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Your Psychology Project Handbook is the complete guide to preparing, carrying out and writing up a psychology research project or dissertation.

Designed to support you through every stage of the project process, this second edition has been updated to include new chapters on doing online research and employability. The text offers you advice and practical guidance on each aspect of the project including ethics, choosing a research question, working with a supervisor and more.

Whether it’s qualitative or quantitative, the handbook provides you with all the support you need to carry out your project with confidence. 

Your Psychology Project Handbook

• Your Psychology Project Handbook


• Brief Contents


• Detailed Contents


• About the Authors


• Publisher?s Acknowledgements


• Guided Tour


• Coming Up with The Idea


• What Makes a Good Project Idea?


• So, Where Do you Begin?


• Doing Projects as a Team


• Projects to Avoid


• A Word on Career Aspirations


• What Next?


• Chapter Summary


• Further Reading


• Managing your Supervisor


• Why ?Manage? The Relationship with your Supervisor?


• What to Expect from your Supervisory Relationship


• Allocations to Supervisors


• First Meeting with your Supervisor


• The Literature Review and Design Phase


• Data Collection Phase


• Data Analysis Phase


• Report Writing Phase


• After you Have Submitted your Report


• Troubleshooting your Supervisory Relationship


• Chapter Summary


• Further Reading


• The Literature Review: Identifying Your Research Question


• Conducting a Literature Search


• The Research Question


• Building a Theoretical Framework


• Chapter Summary


• Further Reading


• Designing your Study


• Initial Decisions About Study Design


• Issues in Experimental Design


• Correlational Design


• Observations


• Designs Based on Interviews, Focus Groups and Other Interactions


• Analysing Archival Data


• Design Decisions Relating to the Analysis of Qualitative Data


• Phenomenological Designs


• Designs Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis


• Designs Using Discourse Analysis


• Narrative Designs


• Designs Using Conversation Analysis


• Designs Using Thematic Analysis