How to Be a Researcher

How to be a Researcher sets itself apart from the mass of research methods books on the market by concentrating on the 'strategy' of research. It draws on the authors extensive experience to offer practical advice to novice researchers on all the major aspects of conducting research, from developing initial ideas through to successfully getting published.

Jonathan St B T Evans is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Plymouth University. He has over 40 years' experience of experimental research and has published more than 150 journal articles. He has also authored eight books, and he served as Editor of the journal Thinking & Reasoning for 17 years.

1. Foreword 2. Introduction Part One: Advice 3. Scholarship and the origin of ideas 4. Research and teaching 5. Designing empirical studies 6. Research funding 7. Developing and testing theories 8. Collaboration and supervision 9. Communication of research Part Two: Philosophy and Psychology of Research 10. Hypothesis testing and reasoning 11. Statistical inference 12. Final thoughts