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This area offers practical advice on postgraduate research and is supported by activities and reflections that can help you develop your skills and focus.

• First stages of research
• Research skills audit - are you ready for this?
• Your supervisor
• Drawing up a draft proposal
• Choosing appropriate research methodologies and methods
• Carrying out a literature review
• Analysing data and thinking about findings
• Writing up your thesis
• FAQs
• Useful resources

Follow Gina Wisker's practical guide The Postgraduate Research Handbook through the stages of postgraduate research. Each section is supported by activities and reflections that can help you develop your skills and focus your ideas.

Further advice on how to manage your postgraduate degree was written for this website by Lucinda Becker, author of How to Manage your Postgraduate Course.