Doing your Research Project in Sport

Chris Lynch teaches at Sheffield College, where he is lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science. He has extensive experience of teaching research methods to students on higher education courses and supervising their research projects. Chris is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of BASES. He is also an avid follower of sport and a poor 5-a-side footballer.

Part 1: Getting to the start line Your research project and this book Getting to the start line: the basis of research Identifying problems and developing the research question Searching for and reading research to write a literature review Designing an experiment Non-experimental research Writing the why Part 2: You're off! You're off: making ethics applications Writing the how Data analysis Part 3: Crossing the finish line Writing what you have found Writing the so what Crossing the finish line Appendix: writing-up checklist