The Research Student’s Guide to Success (2nd ed.)

The second edition of this Open University set book is, like the first edition, for postgraduate research students wherever the language of instruction is English. Irrespective of their field of study, it will make their research programmes and day-to-day lives more productive and enjoyable. The book is easy to dip into and is in conversational style. Interest and realism are added through anecdotes, extracts from the literature and pithy quotations. The second edition is a complete revision of the original. 

New emphases include: 

• the needs of the growing number of part time postgraduates; 
• a wider understanding of the term ​‘research student’ to embrace all postgraduate students undertaking research, whether for traditional PhDs and MPhils or within programmes such as professional doctorates, 
• ‘taught’ masters degrees, diplomas and certificates; 
• information technology as a day-to-day tool. 

There are also two new chapters: one on options for postgraduate study and research and the other on skills development and employment issues. There is a foreword by Professor Sir Martin Harris, Chair of the National UK Review of Postgraduate Education.

Cryer, P. (2006)
The Research Student’s Guide to Success. 2nd ed.
Buckingham: Open University Press.