Reading List

Reading list for pre-PhD or Year 1 PhD students:

Mindset

• Cottrell, S., 2023. Critical thinking skills: Effective analysis, argument and reflection. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• Meadows, D.H., 2008. Thinking in systems: A primer. chelsea green publishing.
• Dweck, C.S., 2006. Mindset: The new psychology of success. Random house.
• Sandel, M.J., 2020. The tyranny of merit: What’s become of the common good?. Penguin UK.
• Sandel, M.J. ed., 2007. Justice: A reader. Oxford University Press, USA.
• McAdams, D.P., 2018. Narrative identity: What is it? What does it do? How do you measure it?. Imagination, cognition and personality, 37(3), pp.359-372.

Methodology

• Groat, L.N. and Wang, D., 2013. Architectural research methods. John Wiley & Sons.
• Saunders, M., Lewis, P. and Thornhill, A., 2009. Research methods for business students. Pearson education.
• Salsburg, D., 2002. The lady tasting tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century. Macmillan.
• Yin, R.K., 2009. Case study research: Design and methods (Vol. 5). sage.
• Dresch, A., Lacerda, D.P., Antunes Jr, J.A.V., Dresch, A., Lacerda, D.P. and Antunes, J.A.V., 2015. Design science research (pp. 67-102). Springer International Publishing.
• Mkansi, M. and Acheampong, E.A., 2012. Research philosophy debates and classifications: students’ dilemma. Electronic journal of business research methods, 10(2), pp.pp132-140.
• Azhar, S., Ahmad, I. and Sein, M.K., 2010. Action research as a proactive research method for construction engineering and management. Journal of construction engineering and management, 136(1), pp.87-98.
• Li, N., Du, J., González, V.A. and Chen, J., 2022. Methodology for extended reality–enabled experimental research in construction engineering and management. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 148(10), p.04022106.
• Easton, G., 2010. Critical realism in case study research. Industrial marketing management, 39(1), pp.118-128.

Mental Health

• Dunn, E. and Norton, M., 2013. Happy money: The science of happier spending. Simon and Schuster.
• Rosenberg, M.B. and Chopra, D., 2015. Nonviolent communication: A language of life: Life-changing tools for healthy relationships. PuddleDancer Press.
• Harris, R., 2019. ACT made simple: An easy-to-read primer on acceptance and commitment therapy. New Harbinger Publications.
• Bond, F.W. and Dryden, W. eds., 2002. Handbook of brief cognitive behaviour therapy. Chichester: Wiley.
• Brickman, P., Coates, D. and Janoff-Bulman, R., 1978. Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative?. Journal of personality and social psychology, 36(8), p.917.

Knowledge about Design and Construction

• Eastman, C.M., 2011. BIM handbook: A guide to building information modeling for owners, managers, designers, engineers and contractors. John Wiley & Sons.
• Baldwin, C.Y. and Clark, K.B., 2000. Design rules, Volume 1: The power of modularity. MIT press.
• Morris, P.W., 2013. Reconstructing project management. John Wiley & Sons.
• Lawson, M., Ogden, R. and Goodier, C.I., 2014. Design in modular construction (Vol. 476, p. 280). Boca Raton, FL: CRC press.