Managing Applied Social Research: Tools, Strategies, and Insights (Paperback)

List of Tables and Figures

About the Authors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: Overview

Chapter 1: Why Manage Applied Social Research Studies?

Chapter 2: A Bird’s-Eye View of Project Management

Section II: Planning the Study: “Deciding How to Conduct the Research Study”

Chapter 3: Plan the Scope of the Research Study

Chapter 4: Plan the Data Collection and the Data Analysis

Chapter 5: Plan the Study’s Work and the Research Schedule

Chapter 6: Plan the People

Chapter 7: Plan the Budget

Chapter 8: Plan How to Deal With the Risks

Section III: Executing the Study: “Delivering the Goods”

Chapter 9: Manage and Direct the Work

Chapter 10: Sustain the Team

Chapter 11: Consider the Worldviews

Chapter 12: Draft the Final Report

Section IV: Closing Out the Study: “Bringing It Home”

Chapter 13: Complete the Activities That End the Study

Chapter 14: Close Out the Study

Postscript: Renewing the Case for Research Management

Book References and Resources

Appendix A: List of Research Design and Management Tasks

Appendix B: Data-Sharing Agreement Example

Index