Well, we really are spoiling you all now..... yet ANOTHER midwifery legend the super brain Colin Rees has answered your questions! Colin is a Lecturer at Cardiff Uni and is THE midwifery man to teach us all about research!

For the newbies to midwifery Colin has saved many of us with his straightforward explanation of research in midwifery. I for one, have a very dog eared early edition of Introduction to Research for Midwives - but you can all get your hands on a sample chapter from the very latest edition!

To read the sample chapter see here.

To see the table of contents see here.

For more information, to buy or review Introduction to Research for Midwives see here.

(Don't forget to use your SMNET/Elsevier discount code!)

I can personally strongly recommend this book as it will save your bacon when you start year 1 and then in year 2 and year 3!!

Research and research methods is one of the constants in midwifery learning and you need to know the basics, need to understand the lingo and be able to sort your null hypotheses from your complex hypotheses and your phenomenology from your ethnography! The chapter on Literature Reviews and Ethics in Research are both must reads. Infact, the whole book is!

I only brought one research methods book when I was a student and it was this one

Colin has very kindly answered your questions in this thread - read on!

Thanks to Colin for connecting with our members and also BIG thanks for helping us all with our research modules over the years!!