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Book Review: Your Research Project

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Revised on: 2015-09-06

This book is a must-have for any serious student or budding research. Even if you consider yourself a seasoned researcher, this book could still teach you some tricks. Now in its third edition, the book will guide through how to write about your research, it will also take you through uthe various research methods, how to make a really good literature review, and it will teach you about honesty and ethics. It is a short, compact and comprehensive guide, better than most other how-to guides on research that I have read.

Did it help me?

Browsing through unfinished work on my blog I found a post draft meant to be a review of this book, dating back to October 2009, a draft I left and never returned to continue, not until now. I have no idea why I never finished that post, because the book did indeed help in me in my own research. At the time I was still aiming for a PhD, a path I have since abandoned. Or maybe not, who knows? Anyway, I did make good use of the tips and tricks the book provided me with, and I did use it when making my philosophical essay on Transportation Network Reliability and Vulnerability back in 2004, when I still believed that my PhD was not too far away.

Structure, structure, structure

The book emphasises that research is based on structure and logic. Now wonder that each chapter is like a small research project or paper in itself, with aims, introduction, content, conclusion, next steps and further reading. Tedious at first, but once you get the hang of it, you start to realise that this is indeed the way research should be conducted. The book teaches by example how to do research. I think that is what makes this such a brilliant book to have and read and put to use.

Reference

Walliman, N. (2011) Your research project, 3rd ed. Sage Publications, London UK

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Location, location, location

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Revised on: 2011-02-25

Albeit many supply chains make use of more than one, if not all modes of transport, the vulnerability of the transportation network is of particular interest in countries or regions with sparsely populated areas, and hence, a sparse transportation network, often with only one mode of transportation available between population centers, meaning this centre can only be reached by either rail, sea, air or road. Having basically only one transportation link to the aforementioned population centers, it becomes extremely vulnerable to any disruption in the transportation system or supply chain, since in a possible worst-case scenario no suitable alternative exists.

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