Demystifying Postgraduate Research

The first complete introduction to the new model of social science and humanities postgraduate research. Based on the leading current course of postgraduate research training, a programme that will become the norm for postgraduate research over the next two or three years. Designed as a set text for '3 plus 1' and similar programmes * The key tools and terminology of research * What to do before beginning the project * Funding * All about the student-supervisor relationship * The viva examination * The process of writing a thesis * Ethics and plagiarism in research, especially the use of the internet * How to get published

Jonathan Grix has worked as an apprentice butcher and bricklayer, truck driver, tree surgeon, French polisher, lead factory worker, builder and full-time middle-distance athlete. A late starter, he completed his own doctorate in two years. He is now Assistant Director of the Institute for German Studies at the University of Birmingham, successfully supervising many postgraduate research students and directing the university's MA in Social Research