This paper stresses the value of small projects and illustrates the author’s ideas with examples from her own work. She also gives advice applicable to larger projects. Inter alia, Kurz shows how previously published work can serve as a basis for selection of research topics aimed at checking existing theories or other authors’ conclusions, or for replications and extensions of previous studies. Her personal contribution as a trained psychologist also includes advice on the use of calibrated psychological personality tests in the field of interpreting.