Masters Dissertation Example

project had significantly lower levels of implementation than those who published to give scientific 
credibility to the research. 
Motivation behind publication 
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Direction of effect 
To give the research scientific credibility 
Dissemination to policy makers 
Publicise plight of species 
Dissemination to practitioners 
Dissemination to scientists. 
Requirement of the research project 
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0.009 
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positive 
positive 
positive 
negative 
negative 

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Levels with similar slopes in relation to the response variable were collapsed together for 
further analysis; ‘conservation’ and ‘inform’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘scientific’, ‘required’ and 
‘scientists’, and ‘credibility’ and ‘policy’. These levels could be justifiably collapsed as there 
was an a priori reason for doing so based on the expected similarities of respondent 
characteristics for the collapsed responses.
4.3.4 Background research information 
4.3.4.1 Type of research 
Whilst the majority of research was focused on threats to species, there was a relatively even 
distribution of the percentage of papers focusing on the various categories of research type; 
conservation status (18%), species biology (17%), threats (31%), determining priorities or 
strategies (20%), and evaluating efficacy of conservation measures (10%), and no significant 
differences between the categories and their influence on the uptake of findings (fig. 15) 
Fig 15. Relationship between research type and proportion of findings taken up was not significant (X
2
= 
4.71,df = 5,p=0.45). Slightly higher levels of implementation can be seen for those focusing on efficacy of