Subject Guides: Law of Punishment and Sentencing : Post-Graduates

Postgraduate Research Support

The Library Postgraduate Research Support service provides guidance and relevant training that supports postgraduate students and researchers during their research journey.

Information and Research Guides

See the Library Postgraduate Research Support guide for more information on recommended and authoritative resources. This guide provides a useful starting point for finding relevant subject information.

You may also consult the SAGE Research Methods guide to help you in finding the best literature to enable you to choose a methodology and launch into your research project.

Training Programme

A series of training sessions is scheduled to run during the 1st and 2nd semesters. Invitations to these sessions are sent to the postgraduate and research community through UWC Communication.

In the case where dates are not suitable, presentations can be done by invitation. Send an email request to library-research@uwc.ac.za

The session cover but are not limited to the following:

Introduction to Library Resources & Facilities
SAGE Research Methods Online
Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar
Research Visibility and Researcher Profiles
Citation tools: Mendeley & EndNote

The Division for Postgraduate Studies (DPGS) offers virtual mentoring to registered UWC postgraduate (PG) students.

Duties of the Writing Coaches

Conduct a one-on-one academic interaction with postgraduate students on general academic writing skills.
Provide comprehensive assistance in writing skills within the context of organised, logical and coherent presentations of research proposals and theses.
Assist postgraduate students with supervisor's comments in proposals or thesis drafts.

Duties of the Statistical Coaches

Assistance with the development of data collection tools (surveys, questionnaires, etc)
Data preparation and cleaning:
- Master sheet preparation, coding and labeling
- Data cleaning
- Assist with data analysis
- Use of data analysis software: SPSS and AtlasTi.

COACHES DO NOT WRITE FOR STUDENTS AND ARE NOT SUPERVISORS!

To request and be assigned a writing or statistical coach, please complete the JOTFORM via the link below:
https://form.jotform.com/51601578349965

Research Methods for Law by Mike McConville (Editor); Wing Hong (Eric) Chui (Editor)
ISBN: 9781474403214
Publication Date: 2017-02-01
Drawing on actual research projects, Research Methods for Law discusses how legal research as process impacts on research as product. The author team has a broad range of teaching and research experience in law, criminal justice and socio-legal studies, and give examples from real-life research products to illustrate the theory.
Research Methods for Law by Mike McConville (Editor); Wing Hong (Eric) Chui (Editor)
Call Number: Level 9 ; 340.072 RES
ISBN: 9780748633586
Publication Date: 2007-07-06
Research Methods for Law introduces undergraduate and postgraduate students to available methods of research - legalistic, empirical, comparative and theoretical - drawing on actual research projects as examples. The book is written by a team of contributors with a broad range of teaching and research experience in law, criminal justice and socio-legal studies.Designed to serve as a handbook for research methods courses with its coverage of the principal research traditions, the book will also appeal to students of related disciplines who have an interest in legal issues including those from criminology, sociology, psychology, government, politics and social administration. The rich mix of general lessons, theoretical engagement and practical examples will be of real value to students.

EndNote is reference management software with features to keep all your references and reference-related materials in a searchable personal library.

EndNote enables researcher to: