Doing Your Literature Review Traditional and Systematic Techniques

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

LydiaMatheson is an Information Specialist working for Library & InformationServices at Aston University.nbsp; Sheundertook her BA Honours in English at YorkUniversity and her PG Diploma inLibrarianship at the University of Central England.nbsp;Her current role includes supporting business school students and developingthe library's online learning module for staff and students.nbsp; She iscurrently Secretary of the Business Librarians Association and a member ofCILIP.nbsp; Before 2002, nbsp;she worked on Stories from the Web forBirmingham Libraries and the SENCO Electronic Communications Project for theNational Council for Educational Technology.nbsp;

Fiona M. Lacey is a Glasgownative and graduate in Pharmacy, from Strathclyde University.She has been a registered pharmacist since 1982, practicing mainly in communitypharmacy. Following a PhD in pharmacology, she gained post doctoral experienceof R&D as a laboratory scientist in a UK-based multinational pharmaceuticalcompany. She has been at Aston University since 1997,where she has taught various scientific and professional aspects of Pharmacy toundergraduate and postgraduate students. Her interest in literature review andthe systematic review came through years of supervising student researchprojects. She is currently Associate Dean in the School of Life and HealthSciences at Aston…  More University.  Less