Methodologies for Practice Research: Approaches for Professional Doctorates

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Sharp and focused, this book provides the need-to-know information on how to design and implement a good, high quality research project.

Oriented around real-world application, it emphasizes the aspects of research most relevant to conducting practice-based research. Assuming no prior knowledge, but appropriate for experienced learners, it builds knowledge at a sustainable pace.  

It offers readers:

- A no frills guide to methodology and the theory of conducting research

- Strategies for communicating complex ideas

- Insight into common impact-driven methods like action research, case study, and mixed methods  

- Ways to develop systematic research projects within the boundaries of everyday working life

- Ample opportunities to test and apply newfound knowledge.

With streamlined advice tailored specifically to support research in professional contexts, this book is the essential toolkit every researcher who is embarking on a practice-led project needs.

Dr. John Fulton is reader in Practice-Based Research within the Faculty of Health Sciences and wellbeing. He has a career of more than 25 years in the education of health professionals. He has an interest in work-based learning and methodological approaches which shape and direct the development of practice. He is co-author of a textbook on the professional doctorate and leads the research methods module of the professional doctorate program. He is also the program leader for the MSc in Public Health and as such is/has been involved in a number of research projects in public health, with particular focus on the wider determinates of health both nationally and globally.