Useful Links :-
The links on this page provide a wide range of resources for research in construction management and associated fields.
Organisations
- CIB - Conseil International du Bâtiment - International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction - a world wide network of over 5000 experts from about 500 member organisations active in the research community, in industry or in education, who cooperate and exchange information in over 50 CIB Commissions covering all fields in building and construction related research and innovation.
- BUBL - BUBL Information Service (formerly Bulletin Board for Libraries), originally established for the academic library community it is now a service for the UK higher education and academic and research community. They have an excellent list of resources for civil engineering and construction management researchers .
Journals
A comprehensive list of journals associated with our field is available here: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/abstracts/cm-journals.html
Research methods
Surveys
- Sample Design for Household Telephone Surveys
- Bibliography of Survey Research
- Telephone methods for social surveys
Content analysis
- QSR NUD*IST 4 Software for Qualitative Data Analysis
- Choosing Qualitative Data Analysis Software: Atlas/ti and Nudist Compared
- MacMillan and McLachlan: Theory-Building with Nud*ist
- Content Analysis Books
Focus groups
Designing your research
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods
- KM Related Papers
- The Ultimate Business, Management and Technology Resource: @BRINT
- Sociological Research Online - Home Page
- Qualitative Research in Information Systems
- Social Science WWW VL - Register of Leading Social Science E-Journals
- Sociological Research Online - Home Page
- Research and writing guides
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Formal Methods
- SCOLARI: Commercially available software to help design and execute research
Research funding
- EPSRC Engineering Programme Networks
- Refund home page
- EPSRC-Research Grants
- Office of Science and Technology
- Current Funding Opportunities
- Research Funds Information News Service
- CIRIA
- CORDIS Home Page
- EPSRC: a research council with a mission
- In a Nutshell - How do you propose?
Writing Aids
Formatting references and bibliographies:
- APA Style Guide (Univ of Southern Mississippi)
- APA Style Guide (Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Citing electronic documents
Managing your references:
- Software for managing your database of literature
- EndNote Style file for Construction Management and Economics (When you click on this, you will be asked if you wish to open it or save it. Save it to the directory where you keep your EndNote styles, probably c:/Program Files/EndNote/Styles)
- EndNote Style file for an annotated bibliography in CM&E style (When you click on this, you will be asked if you wish to open it or save it. Save it to the directory where you keep your EndNote styles, probably c:/Program Files/EndNote/Styles)
Advice about how to write a paper:
- Paradigm: On-line writing assistant
- Researchpaper.com
- Elements of style (a book from 1918 about how to write properly)
Research skills
- Developing your own network of contacts : "Networking on the Network" by Phil Agre is a free 120-page guide to professional skills for PhD students. It explains in great detail how to speak at a conference, build a community around your research topic, write a dissertation, get a job, advise others, and become a leader in your field. Professional networking cannot substitute for good research, but good research cannot substitute for networking either. Networking and research go together, and "Networking on the Network" explains analytically and ethically just how. It also includes an extensive bibliography.
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