One of the most important tasks facing social scientists is
managing a field research project. Yet field research training
focuses almost entirely on theories and formal methods, leaving
researchers with no practical guidance in actual implementation.
The Field Research Survival Guide fills a need for all researchers
in social science, psychology, and related areas, by serving as an
advanced guide for making decisions in the field. This collection
of narratives from leading field researchers acknowledges the
unpredictability of managing a project and candidly illustrates
real-world problems and solutions. The authors openly reveal their
successes, their failures, and what skills are needed for
successful field research management.
Unlike the standard research methods text, each chapter of The
Field Research Survival Guide has practical import for the
researcher, ties together extant literature, and illustrates the
issues with concrete examples from the authors' own experience.
Chapters cover such topics as creating an interdisciplinary
research team, hiring and training research staff and interviewers,
developing the instrument, preparing the data for analysis,
navigating the IRB and ethical dilemmas, maintaining cultural
sensitivity, measuring the impact of the methodology, evaluating
the intervention, transferring the results to practice and policy,
and disseminating results and sharing data and publications. Though
many research texts cover these areas, no other book gives readers
such straightforward advice about balancing the textbook ideal with
the field reality.
Newly minted and experienced researchers alike will learn and
benefit from the shared experiential knowledge ofseasoned, widely
respected field researchers. Doctoral students, junior faculty, and
research assistants will benefit from an insider's guide to
managing the reality of conducting a research project. Designed to
supplement traditional textbooks on research methods, this will be
an ideal addition to doctoral courses in departments of social
work, psychology, psychiatry, and public health, and an
indispensible reference for those conducting field research.
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