Managing Social Research : : A Practical Guide.

• Superior document: Social Research Today Series
• Author: Tarling, Roger.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2005.; Ã2006.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Social Research Today Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (193 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Aim of the book -- Plan of the book -- Definitions of project, research and management -- Social research in the UK -- Legal and ethical framework -- 2. Stakeholder and risk analysis -- Stakeholder analysis -- Five steps in a stakeholder analysis -- Action plan -- Risk assessment analysis -- Six steps in a risk assessment analysis -- A risk log -- What goes wrong with social research projects? -- Example: Sport and Leisure Activities for Young People -- 3. Commissioning research -- Competition -- Preparing a specification of requirement -- Project budget -- Running a competition -- European Union Procurement Rules -- 4. Applying for research funding -- Modes of research funding -- Funders of social research -- Preparing a proposal -- Costing a project -- Success rates -- 5. Negotiation to contract -- How to negotiate -- Issues that often need to be negotiated and clarified -- The contract -- Further negotiations -- 6. Project planning -- Activities -- Dependencies -- Gantt chart -- Milestones -- Itemising resources and assigning responsibilities -- Microsoft Project 2000 -- 7. Research staff -- Employment law -- Contract research staff -- Safety of researchers -- 8. Implementing the project -- Liaison with the sponsor -- Managing the team -- Monitoring, controlling and directing -- Maintaining quality of fieldwork, data collection and analysis -- 9. Dissemination -- Dissemination strategy -- Report writing -- Oral presentations -- 10. Intellectual property, copyright, confidentiality and data protection -- Copyright -- Confidentiality -- Data Protection Act -- 11. Ethics in social research -- Codes of ethics -- Ethical review and regulation -- 12. Summary -- Twenty questions for the project manager.

Qualities required of a project manager -- Bibliography -- Index.