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This chapter has identified the range of aspects that should be carefully considered when planning your project. Case Study 1.3 describes how one researcher approached her work, using the current literature to develop her techniques and adopting appropriate protocols for working overseas, in potentially hazardous environments. Ensure that you take sufficient time in the planning phase of your research project to cover all of the component parts. This includes health and safety and legal issues as well as making sure that your aims and objectives are focused and that any methods employed are appropriate to gather and analyse data. At each stage, consider the details of the implementation, whether this is in the practicalities of sampling or data management. Box 1.9 gives some general guidelines that should be ticked off in advance of implementing your project.