Your Human Geography Dissertation: Designing, Doing, Delivering

An undergraduate dissertation is your opportunity to engage with geographical research, first-hand. But completing a student project can be a stressful and complex process.  Your Human Geography Dissertation breaks the task down into three helpful stages:

• Designing: Deciding on your approach, your topic and your research question, and ensuring your project is feasible
• Doing: Situating your research and selecting the best methods for your dissertation project
• Delivering: Dealing with data and writing up your findings

With information and task boxes, soundbites offering student insight and guidance, and links to online materials, this book offers a complete and accessible overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful human geography dissertation.

Kim is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. She has previously held lecturing posts at Aberystwyth University and the University of Sheffield, following the completion of a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2012. Before becoming an academic Kim worked as a transport planner, civil servant and as a sales advisor in a London bike store. In her spare time she enjoys road cycling and visiting the coast. Kim′s research focuses on the social, cultural and political organisation and use of maritime space. She has published widely in this area, including the co-edited books, Waterworlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean (Ashgate, 2014) and The Mobilities of Ships (Routledge, 2015). She teaches in this area as well as more broadly on research methods and dissertation training. This is Kim′s first textbook.