This highly accessible book guides students through the production of either a traditional or a systematic literature review, clearly explaining the difference between the two types of review, the advantages and disadvantages of both, and the skills needed. It gives practical advice on reading and organizing relevant literature and critically assessing the reviewed field. Contents include using libraries and the internet, note making, presentation, critical analysis, and referencing, plagiarism, and copyright.
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Jill Jesson entered higher education as a mature student. She
won a First Class Honours BSc in Behavioural Science, and in 1988 was awarded
her PhD for a pioneering doctoral thesis on black businesses, both from Aston University.
Since then she has worked with multi-disciplinary research teams within the
Aston School of Pharmacy, Aston
Business School
and with M-E-L Research, an independent public services research consultancy.
Her publications cover community pharmacy practice, public health and social
care. Her special interest in literature review and the idea for this book
developed as a result of teaching applied research to pharmacy undergraduates
and Business School Masters students.
Lydia
Matheson is an Information Specialist working for Library & Information
Services at Aston
University. She
undertook her BA Honours in English at York
University and her PG Diploma in
Librarianship at the University
of Central England.
Her current role includes supporting business school students and developing
the library’s online learning module for staff and students. She is
currently Secretary of the Business Librarians Association and a member of
CILIP. Before 2002, she worked on Stories from the Web for
Birmingham Libraries and the SENCO Electronic Communications Project for the
National Council for Educational Technology.
Fiona M. Lacey is a Glasgow
native and graduate in Pharmacy, from Strathclyde University.
She has been a registered pharmacist since 1982, practicing mainly in community
pharmacy. Following a PhD in pharmacology, she gained post doctoral experience
of R&D as a laboratory scientist in a UK-based multinational pharmaceutical
company. She has been at Aston
University since 1997,
where she has taught various scientific and professional aspects of Pharmacy to
undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her interest in literature review and
the systematic review came through years of supervising student research
projects. She is currently Associate Dean in the School of Life and Health
Sciences at Aston University.
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