Dissertation Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences focuses specifically on methodology when planning, writing and submitting your dissertation thesis. Written by two methodology experts in the social sciences, the book provides a step-by-step guide through each stage of the dissertation process.
It covers all aspects of the methodological considerations needed, from choosing a topic or research question, literature review, identifying research gaps, accessing potential study participants, utilizing the right sampling strategies, ways to analyze data, and writing up findings. Readers are introduced to the main research methods normally used in dissertations, and their characteristics, and are guided to choose an appropriate research method for their study, provide substantial description of the selected method, and articulate strong arguments supporting the method. The book is filled with templates, exemplars, and tools to help students to write about methodology in their thesis, and to equip readers to successfully trouble shoot methodology challenges they may face.
This compact book will be of use to all graduate students and their supervisors in the Social Sciences, Education and Behavioural Sciences, looking for a guide for working with robust and defensible methodological principles in their dissertation research and theses.
About the Author: Philip Adu is the founder and methodology expert at the Center for Research Methods Consulting. He has provided research methodology services to clients for over 10 years. He is also a contributing faculty at Walden University. Dr. Adu is the author of A Step-by-Step Guide to Qualitative Data Coding (2019). He is also a co-author of The Theoretical Framework in Phenomenological Research (2022).
D. Anthony Miles is CEO and founder, of Miles Development Industries Corporation(R), a consulting practice and venture capital acquisition firm. He also has extensive experience with dissertations and assisting doctoral students. Dr. Miles has served as a dissertation chair, methodologist, and statistician. He has over 10 years' experience with dissertations and has worked with over 100 doctoral students. Won the 2009 USASBE Doctoral Consortium fellowship for his doctoral research.
