Here is a book written by experienced and well-known researchers who would themselves have found it invaluable as they embarked on their careers. Written in an easy-to-read manner, with many case histories and real-life situations, this book deals with some of the issues not talked about or mentioned in published research including::
*finding a voice amongst the multitude of methodologies and methods *working through relationship conflicts *fighting battles with structural constraints *crises of confidence, writing blocks *the difficulties of being a student or a supervisor
Above all, the authors understand that research is more than a systematic, linear process.
1. Knowledge and practice: Researching critical moments; 2. Lost in time and space: The fractured lens: methodology in perspective; Being a methodological space cadet; Charting standpoints in qualitative research; Re-authoring self: knowing as being; 3. The full Monty: Black holes in the writing process: narratives of speech and silence; Fragile relationships; Whose show is it? The contradictions of collaboration; Playing the mud of government; Learning through supervising; Sparks fly: when, life, work and research collide; 4. Glass ceilings and brick walls: double disadvantage; Breaking through with subjugated knowledge: pushing the boundaries; of urban planning; Dangerous knowledge - the politics and ethics of research; Crises of representation; Perspectives and dilemmas in thesis examination
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