'Making Learning Happen has been an essential read for new academic staff since it first appeared. The third edition is exceptionally welcome providing real insights into what the modern student expects, and reflecting changes in the delivery of higher education.' -Pauline Kneale, Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning, Plymouth University

This book helps audiences to create effective questions for use with a wide range of groups and situations. It teaches frameworks for setting up questions and then provides the questions that can be customized to suit those frameworks and situations. The book explores the basic parameters of effective questioning.

This book brings a wide range of themes under one cover: the supervision process, writing, the viva, the examination of written and oral 'performance' and the aftermath, including publishing.

A Super Quick guide to successfully managing your money as you study, from funding and budgeting to managing your debt.

A Super Quick guide to managing your stress while you study, helping you find balance and feel in control.

A Super Quick guide to successfully managing your time, balancing your commitments and achieving your academic goals.

This book offers the kind of advice and encouragement that part-time students find difficult to source elsewhere, by recognizing that many of the challenges confronting them are unique to their situation.

This book is about analysing, understanding and managing the way you learn. Whatever stage or type of learning you are undertaking, it will help you assess and build on your strengths, and identify and improve your weaknesses.

This new academic writing guide coaches you through the trials and tribulations of transitioning to postgraduate studies from undergraduate study.

Offers a close look at the inductive nature of qualitative research, the use of researcher reflexivity, and the systematic and iterative steps involved in data collection, analysis, and interpretation

An original and entertaining look at how we can use our brains to their full potential

The Mature Student's Guide to Higher Education tells you everything you need to know if you are thinking about returning to education as a mature student. It discusses a wide range of issues including what higher education involves, how you should prepare for it and how to balance your time and cheque book once you get there.

A practical guide allowing mature students to build on their strengths and overcome challenges. Includes worked examples, exercises and space for recording strategies and successes. Covers areas such as lectures, seminars, reading and note-taking, presentations, writing, exams, time management, finance and careers.

The MBA Companion will let the student know what to expect from their course and will be there every step of the way as an essential reference. Offering wide-ranging yet accessible coverage of the core topics, along with important advice on study skills, this book is the essential survival guide for MBA students.

'The Memory Book' offers advanced memory techniques, which when combined with the simultaneous development of all your senses, could blast your memory capability into the stratosphere.

The potential of the human mind is absolutely phenomenal, and Tony Buzan is one of the world's leading experts on how people can maximize their brainpower. Now, in his most comprehensive book yet on the topic, Buzan reveals exciting new ways to improve one's memory, concentration, creativity, ability to learn, and more.

Using a unique combination of mindfulness-based techniques and study skills, this book shows students how to apply mindfulness to their studies and everyday life in simple, practical steps.

This thoroughly practical book combines cognitive and behavioural approaches with vocational counselling and coaching for the first time, providing clear, practical strategies and a wealth of materials that can be used with clients in one-to-one or group settings.

How can you encourage people to be motivated? How can you create that sense of yearning to achieve or reach a goal? How can you energise and inspire group members? The exercises and activities in this book helps you to motivate your team or the group with which you are working.

Explains the problems and limits of narrative analysis. Each chapter emphasizes theory and the ways of thinking about research by means of studies that chapter authors have used in their own research.

This collection provides a worldwide perspective on action research, a process which covers educational, professional, managerial and organizational development.

With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard The original, bestselling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world wide.