Dissertations and Research

• Starting the dissertation: Tips on picking a topic, conducting a lit review and narrowing your focus.

• Choose your research methods wisely: Balancing ambition and realism in your research design is key to a successful dissertation.

• Finding the right tools: Student researchers need to know what to look for in a measurement instrument.

Funding Your Research

8 Tips for funding your dissertation: Funding is available from universities, foundations, APA divisions and grants, psychology groups, federal sources, state assocations.

Collecting Data

• More data, less hassle: Researchers share tips for collecting data more efficiently.

• Information gold mines: Large-scale databases are free, acesssible and provide great research fodder.

• Ready, set — collect!: Advice on how to make your IRB approval, participant recruitment and data collection go smoothly.

Writing Up Your Research

• Writing up your results: Be open to surprising findings, but don't lose track of your dissertation's main research questions.

• Discussing your findings: Your dissertation's discussion should tell a story. What do your data say?

• Nurturing your offshoots: Small research projects can bear unexpected fruit.

Publishing & Authorship

• Craft a winning manuscript: Bogged down with your research paper or dissertation? Here's how to make your writing and editing more manageable.

• Publishing your dissertation: Publishing is a crucial component to a successful career in psychological science. What better place to start than your dissertation?

• A graduate student’s guide to determining authorship credit and authorship order: Although it is often viewed as the endpoint, publication actually reflects the culmination of efforts and contributions made by everyone involved.

APA Books

• Finish Your Dissertation Once and for All! How to Overcome Psychological Barriers, Get Results, and Move on with Your Life: Overcome self-doubt, procrastination, perfectionism and the thoughts, feelings and behavior that accompany them.

• Dissertations and Theses From Start to Finish: Psychology and Related Fields, Second Edition: Aids student writers through the practical, logistical, and emotional stages of writing dissertations and theses.

• Critical Thinking About Research: Psychology and Related Fields: Identify errors in others' research and reduce them to a minimum in your own work.