Research Supervisors for Supervisors and their Students

Research degrees remain a challenge for both supervisors and the researchers whom they are trying to help. It is more challenging than ever to find a good doctorial programme and it is difficult to manage all the different facets of a research degree that have to be attended to. Not everyone who thinks it is a good idea to undertake a research degree will be successful and this book indicates the characteristics which are required to produce high quality academic research. The book explores a number of important issues including the nature of theory development in academic research and how positivist and interpretivist research functions.

The book discusses in detail how masters and doctorial degrees are evaluated and gives tips on how to be sure that the examiners will be satisfied with both the dissertation and during the viva. This book offers sound advice to both supervisors and their students, as to how to navigate their way through all the issues they have to face.

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Dr Dan Remenyi is an external member of Faculty at Henley Business School, University of Reading and an Honorary Professor at the University of Winchester and the University of the Witwatersrand. He was for more than a decade a Visiting Professor in Information Systems Management at the School of Systems and Data Studies at Trinity College, University of Dublin. He teaches Research Methodology and Sociology of Research as well as supervising academic researchers. He has an interest in research methodology and the sociology of research. He now works extensively with research candidates and their supervisors at both doctoral and masters level. He conducts a number of seminars to topics related to improving effective academic research and obtaining better results. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and some 50 academically refereed papers. He is published in all 4 of the 'A' rated Journals in the United Kingdom in Information Systems Management. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of a number of Journals in the IS field of study. He holds a B Soc Sc, an MBA and a PhD.