Jesson Jill - Doing Your Literature Review : Traditional and Systematic Techniques

Doing Your Literature Review

Doing Your Literature Review
traditional and systematic techniques

Jill K. Jesson with Lydia Matheson and Fiona M. Lacey

Jill K. Jesson, Lydia Matheson, Fiona M. Lacey 2011

First published 2011

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Jill K. Jesson entered higher education as a mature student. She won a First Class Honours BSc in Behavioural Science, and in 1988 was awarded her PhD for a pioneering doctoral thesis on black businesses, both from Aston University. Since then she has worked with multi-disciplinary research teams within the Aston School of Pharmacy, Aston Business School and with M-E-L Research, an independent public services research consultancy. Her publications cover community pharmacy practice, public health and social care. Her special interest in literature review and the idea for this book developed as a result of teaching applied research to pharmacy undergraduates and Business School Masters students.

Lydia Matheson is an Information Specialist working for Library and Information Services at Aston University. She undertook her BA Honours in English at York University and her PG Diploma in Librarianship at the University of Central England. Her current role includes supporting business school students and developing the librarys online learning module for staff and students. She is currently Secretary of the Business Librarians Association and a member of CILIP. Before 2002, she worked on Stories from the Web for Birmingham Libraries and the SENCO Electronic Communications Project for the National Council for Educational Technology.

Fiona M. Lacey is a Glasgow native and graduate in Pharmacy, from Strathclyde University. She has been a registered pharmacist since 1982, practicing mainly in community pharmacy. Following a PhD in pharmacology, she gained post doctoral experience of R&D as a laboratory scientist in a UK-based multinational pharmaceutical company. She has been at Aston University since 1997, where she has taught various scientific and professional aspects of Pharmacy to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Her interest in literature review and the systematic review came through years of supervising student research projects. She is currently Associate Dean in the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University.

Several people helped us in compiling this book.

Katie Jesson drew the diagrams in , and encouraged us to stick to the project time plan and complete the book.

Thanks to my colleagues Anna Ackfeldt and Nick Lee for their constructive comments on early drafts. Fiona Lacey read through an entire early draft, giving invaluable support and feedback. I am extremely grateful to Mike Luck, who instigated my interest in teaching critical literature review to postgraduate students. He read the manuscript at a draft stage, spotted some spelling errors the ones that spell-check does not pick up and offered some advice on readability. I would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers who gave very candid advice on ways to improve the text. Basia Nowakowska helped with the final formatting.

Patrick Brindle, Anna Coatman and David Hodge from Sage guided and looked after me and the book as it moved through publication.

The following authors and publishers gave permission to use their copyright material.

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