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Immy Holloway - Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care - 9780632050574 - V9780632050574
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Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care

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Description for Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care Paperback. This text is written specifically for health and social care professionals from practical as well as academic backgrounds, providing academic, professional and practical advice and guidelines for all potential students in health care. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: JKS; MBP; MRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care enables 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 faced by postgraduate researchers in health care and social care in their quest for completion of an MPhil or PhD.

Part One is designed to assist potential students in negotiating their way through the minefield of decisions and bureaucratic processes involved in enrollment and registration. Attention to detail at this stage of the process will help resolve most of the common problems likely to be ... Read more

Part Two is concerned with the processes involved in achieving a successful MPhil or PhD following registration. Chapters on writing up, examination procedures, and advice on how to prepare for and cope with the viva are included.

Key features:

* Authoritative and comprehensive guide

* Considers the challenges of research in applied settings

* Practical, sound advice throughout

Real life examples

"I recommend this book warmly as a reliable guide to all aspects of research for higher degrees, more especially, as a handbook for the practical problems faced in the course of undertaking any type of research. In short, this book is an indispensable aid for researchers and those undertaking health and social care research courses." From the Foreword by Professor J. Akinsanya.

Dr Immy Holloway is Reader in the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University. Dr Jan Walker is Principal Lecturer in Multiprofessional Health Care at the University of Plymouth.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780632050574
SKU
V9780632050574
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Immy Holloway
Immy Holloway is a professor and co-director of the Centre for Qualitative Research in the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University. Though retired from full-time work, she still takes an active role in research and PhD student supervision. As a medical sociologist she has taught health and social care professionals for over thirty years. As well as ... Read more

Reviews for Getting a PhD in Health and Social Care
"...health and social care departmentrs will recommend this book to their postgraduate research students because it will be an invaluable companion during the course of their research, from conception to completion. Journal of Advanced Nursing "I have already asked the university library to obtain this book and I shall recommend it to all of ... Read more

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