Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science: Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Jay D. Gatrell, Gregory D. Bierly, Ryan R. Jensen (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific issues of space, place, and scale as they propose and perform research in the spatial sciences. This practical textbook and overview blends plenty of concrete examples of spatial research and case studies to familiarize readers with the research process as it demystifies and exemplifies how to really do it. The appendix contains both completed and in-progress proposals for MA and PhD theses and dissertations. Emphasizing research as a learning and experiential process while providing students with the encouragement and skills needed for success in proposal writing, "Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science" can serve as a textbook for graduate-level research-design courses, as well as for undergraduate-level project-based spatial science courses.

Keywords: proposal writing, grant writing, research, geography, spatial science

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Spatial Science and Its Traditions....Pages 1-10
Literature Reviews....Pages 11-23
Research Questions....Pages 25-34
Data and Methods in Spatial Science....Pages 35-44
Graduate Degree Proposals....Pages 45-49
Grants and Grant Writing....Pages 51-59
Disseminating Research....Pages 61-72
Reflections on Proposal Writing in Spatial Science....Pages 73-74
Model Proposals....Pages 75-76
Thesis I: Human Systems....Pages 77-89
Thesis II: Human Systems-Mixed Methods....Pages 91-104
Dissertation I: Human-Environment Interactions....Pages 105-123
Dissertation II: Geo-Techniques....Pages 125-143
Dissertation III: Physical Systems....Pages 145-160
Extramural Grant I: Collaborative Research and Outreach....Pages 161-178
Extramural Grant II: Instrumentation....Pages 179-193
Extramural III: Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant....Pages 195-204
Intramural Grants....Pages 205-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-215

✦ Subjects

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Regional/Spatial Science; Human Geography