Your Human Geography Dissertation by Kimberley Peters

Your Human Geography Dissertation by Kimberley Peters

A concise, flexible and wonderfully written textbook which supports undergraduate geography students throughout the stressful dissertation process. Divided into three sections - Designing, Doing and Delivering it is a complete overview of the key skills needed to prepare, research, and write a successful dissertation.

This excellent new text guides students carefully, intelligently and sympathetically through the process of doing a human geography dissertationIt offers grounded advice - from the question of what a dissertation is, to the mechanics of data analysis - which will be indispensable for students researching the full diversity of topics covered by contemporary human geography. The insights, advice and reflections from both previous students and academic staff who currently teach human geography add valuable insights that will both reassure students and help them avoid making common mistakes.
-- Peter Kraftl

This book will be an invaluable read for all Human Geography dissertation students. It conveys the excitement and possibilities of Human Geography research, whilst also alerting the reader to its challenges and pitfalls. This is certainly not a generic ‘how to do your dissertation’ textbook; instead it engages with Human Geography as a discipline and the role of the dissertation student as a producer of geographic knowledge. The book’s clear sections on designing, doing and delivering your dissertation, have useful examples, include input from the author’s students themselves, making this an accessible and comprehensive text. 

-- Katie Willis

Kim Peters has written a much needed book that will be of great value to Geography students undertaking what is often the most challenging part of their degree, the dissertation.  As a Geography lecturer I have often wished that a book such as this existed. Your Human Geography Dissertation goes way beyond a standard examination of the pros and cons of different research methods, covering a range of topics from the identification of dissertation subjects and the development of research questions through gathering data and writing up.  It is a readable and highly accessible text full of helpful detail, practical advice and useful examples.  Thank you Kim!  

-- Jo Little
This book is fantastic! It is recommended reading for our second-year research design course, and I have used some of the ‘dissertation tips’ videos in lectures on this course during 2018/9.  For my own dissertation students in supervision meetings, this book is my core recommendation of a text that will help students with their whole human geography dissertation journey.  -- Dr Sarah Mills

Of all the books that I recommend to my dissertation students, this book is always the first. Writing a dissertation is a daunting task, certainly the most demanding and challenging part of a degree, and Kim Peters, with her accessible style and useful and highly relevant advice, makes it a bit less intimidating. Your Human Geography Dissertation guides students through all the stages of their dissertation, helping them to think geographically, refine their research question and choose the appropriate research methods. This book is so recent but already feels like a classic. 

-- Dr Filippo Menga

Mike Brown is the General Manager of Coastguard Boating Education, New Zealand. He holds a part-time Senior Research Fellowship at Auckland University of Technology. Published works include Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy for a Changing World (2016), and Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea (2015, with B. Humberstone). Mike has been involved in UK sail training and cruised the South West Pacific by sailboat. He lives on his yacht within a few hundred metres of his workplace.

Kimberley Peters teaches Human Geography at the University of Liverpool. Her research seeks to better understand the governance of maritime and other 'non-grounded' spaces. She is a member of Liverpool's Institute for Sustainable Coasts and Oceans (LISCO) and the Centre for Port and Maritime History. Her work includes The Mobilities of Ships (2015) and Carceral Mobilities (2017). Kimberley has written over 30 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.

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ISBN 13	9781446295205
ISBN 10	1446295206
Title	Your Human Geography Dissertation
Author	Kimberley Peters
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2017-02-23
Number of pages	264
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