Sport Psychology

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Sport Psychology

Reading Lists

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Independent Research - getting started

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How to identify different sources of information and links to useful books and ebooks.

Creating a search strategy

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Independent Research - beyond the basics

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• Developing advanced search strategies

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How to search systematically for literature. From the initial stages of understanding your vocabulary to using advanced features in databases.

• Databases

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Collections of specialist, subject specific journal literature.

• Websites and professional organisations

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• Statistics

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Links to databases and online sources of statistics

• Newspapers

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• Audio visual resources

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• Learning Resources

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• Research Methods

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Access books and videos about quantitative and qualitative research methods and many more social science research topics. Use the Tools drop-down at the top centre of the screen to access a handy Project Planner which is full of FAQs about what you need to consider at each stage in a project/dissertation. Tools also contains a Methods Map which is ideal for quickly finding details about a particular research method.

 

Referencing

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Guidance and support for referencing in APA7 and links to information on reference management software

Your Subject Team

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