Starting a research project

However large or small, it can be a daunting prospect. New researchers can be confronted with a huge number of options not only of topic, but of conceptual underpinning.

It is quite possible to conduct research into, say, memory, from a number of research traditions. Psychology also has links with several other disciplines, and it is possible to utilise their techniques; the difficulty is quite simply the wide variety of methodological approaches that psychological research embraces.

In this collection, authors have been recruited to explain a wide range of different research strategies and theories with examples from their own work. Their successes as well as the problems they encountered are explained to provide a comprehensive and practical guide for all new researchers.

The collection will be a great help to undergraduates about to start final year projects and should be required reading for all those thinking of graduate level research.