Research methods: general

In Pursuit of Healthy Environments brings temporal depth to a highly topical issue, the interaction between health and the environment.

How do education researchers navigate the qualitative research process?

The central purpose of this book is to enable practitioners to undertake and to offer an account of an action research project.

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today's law enforcement officers.

This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally.

Biplots are a graphical method for simultaneously displaying two kinds of information; typically, the variables and sample units described by a multivariate data matrix or the items labelling the rows and columns of a two-way table.

"e;Forrest enchants as she delivers descriptions of Earth from above, the alluring winter snowscape, and jokes.

A concise summary of the theoretical principles behind talk in school and brief mapping of the research tradition in this field.

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Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it.

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies.

Writing well is an essential skill for sociologists, but few books help students learn to write well.

This book acknowledges the significant changes in the context and contours of the traditional employee-employer relationship over the last several decades and highlights the emergence of exciting new directions for the study of psychological contracts (PC).

Using an accessible, nontechnical approach, the third edition of Regression Basics introduces readers to the fundamentals of statistical regression.

This book revisits the arguments by which Harvey Sacks and Harold Garfinkel opposed the widespread attempt in the social sciences to construct disciplinary theories and methods in place of common-sense knowledge of human action, and proposed instead an alternative that would investigate the organised methods of natural language use and common-sense reasoning that constitute social orders - arguments that led to the establishment and proliferation of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Inclusive Research?

Qualitative research, once on the fringes, now plays a central part in advancing nursing and midwifery knowledge, contributing to the development of the evidence base for healthcare practice.

Teaches students how to use R to conduct the statistical analyses most commonly used in political science.

Evaluation examines policies and programs across every arena of human endeavor, from efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS to programs that drive national science policy.

WordPress for Journalists presents an in-depth and accessible introduction to using the content management system WordPress to produce journalism today.

Since the beginning of the century, there have been calls for the integration of traditional individualistic (micro) and management (macro) paradigms in Human Resource Management studies.

This Element explores how political scientists designing experiments address how abstract their experimental stimuli should be.

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.

This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean.

Researching and Analysing Business: Research Methods in Practice provides an accessible and practical guide to various data collection and data analysis techniques within management, from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.

Asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for trade-offs between conflicting goals and demonstrates that such explanations can always be found.

Much of our thinking is flawed because it is based on faulty intuition.

'VITAL SIGNS does for the environment what stock market indicators do for the City.

People are increasingly disenchanted with performance improvement techniques that fail to deliver.

Whatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the awareness of others.

Whilst assessment has long been central to the counselling process, with the recent moves towards evidence-based practice and increased regulation it is taking an increasingly pivotal role in service provision.

First published in 1972, this book rejects as inadequate the 'trait' and 'functionalist' theories of the professions and instead presents an alternative framework to analyse the contemporaneous occupational change in industrial societies.

This book is a personal reflection on research interviews.

Poverty is a complex global challenge rooted in intertwined social, economic and political factors, which excludes people from participating fully in normalised social and market-based activities.

Designed to support the paradigm shift in media and communication, this book presents the basic tenets of strategic communication and its foundational disciplines of advertising, public relations, and marketing communications.

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children.

Skills for finding information are essential for academic study and beyond.

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult child power dynamics.

Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not.

The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme'- Educational Book ReviewThis ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children.

Learning how to formulate questions that examine the power relations between the researcher and participants is at the heart of critical approaches.

Offering a broad overview of consequential changes in the landscape of reference services, this guide also provides practical guidance on how to meet the new challenges they present.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive experiences teaching human rights policing to police officers, this book teaches law enforcement professionals how to apply human rights to their everyday interactions with community members.

How can we analyse the intersectional effects of multiple factors on experiences of disenfranchisement?

This book explores the problem of scientific dishonesty and misconduct - a problem that affects all disciplines, yet whose extent remains largely unknown and for which established standards for reporting, prevention, and punishment are absent.

Writing high quality grant applications is easier when you know how research funding agencies work and how your proposal is treated in the decision-making process.