Your human geography dissertation: designing, doing and 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.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Your human geography dissertation: An introduction -- Becoming a geographer -- What is a dissertation? -- Why do a human geography dissertation? -- Starting out: Top tips -- How to use this book -- SECTION I DESIGNING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION -- 2.Starting out: Identifying your approach -- The connections between thought and practice -- Finding your approach to geography -- Theoretical approaches for geographers -- The geography in your dissertation -- Philosophical ruminations: Moving forwards -- 3.Getting going: Finding a topic -- Introducing topic selection -- Topical challenges: A personal story -- Beginning: The thoughtful and creative stage -- Moving on: Finding a research problem -- 4.The next step: Developing your research question -- It's question time -- Reviewing literature -- Literature reviews -- Formulating your research question -- 5.Final preparations: Is your project workable? -- Geographical explorations -- Practical considerations -- Assessing health and safety -- Making sure it's legal -- Paying attention to ethics -- SECTION II DOING YOUR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY DISSERTATION -- 6.Doing reflexive research: Situating your diss…