Research methods: general

Author of Could It Be Autism?

The recording and analysis of food data are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

Full of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.

Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their 'mobile lives'.

Qualitative Researcher Vulnerability provides conceptual, experiential, and practical insights into the vulnerability of the qualitative researcher.

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.

Heuristic Enquiries provides an illuminating exploration of heuristic research by offering case studies of heurism in theory and practice across a number of disciplines, including art and design, psychology, psychotherapy, social care, social geography, and indigenous studies.

Large surveys are becoming increasingly available for public use, and researchers are often faced with the need to analyse complex survey data to address key scientific issues.

Phenomenological Perspectives on Place, Lifeworlds and Lived Emplacement is a compilation of seventeen previously published articles and chapters by David Seamon, one of the foremost researchers in environmental, architectural, and place phenomenology.

"e;Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators"e; illustrates interim narrative field texts of identity as "e;teacher educator stories"e; and demonstrates how researchers utilize common places of temporality, sociality, and place in analyzing narratives.

In this book, top specialists address theoretical, methodological, and empirical multilevel models as they relate to the analysis of individual and cultural data.

This book examines how individuals behave across time and to what degree that behavior changes, fluctuates, or remains stable.

The Live Art of Sociology attends to the importance of 'the live' in contemporary social and political life.

This collection of research articles illustrates a wide variety of qualitative methods for gathering and interpreting data.

Maureen F.

This engaging, comprehensive guide provides undergraduates with the key tools for successful written and oral communication in psychology.

This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualise and investigate poverty.

This volume demonstrates how to conduct case study research that is both methodologically rigourous and useful to development policy.

A provocative critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.

First Published in 2004.

This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic's complex influence on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia or "e;MotherScholars"e;.

Despite the widespread promotion of children's voices by activists and policy makers over the last decade, the potential for young people's knowledge to impact on adult agendas and policy arenas is by no means a certainty.

This book presents a new way of understanding organizational ethnography due to its strong emphasis on what the word organizational means in organizational ethnography.

In company with its sister volume, Arts-Based Research Across Textual Media in Education explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, from a variety of geographic locations and across a range of subdisciplines within the field of education.

This book offers a critical insight into how the study of NGOs can be more theoretically grounded and methodologically creative.

Interest in environmental health research conducted with community participation has increased dramatically in recent years.

Universities, governments, faculty-evaluation committees, grant-bestowing institutions, scholars, and accreditation organizations have increasingly insisted on identifying and placing value on research impact.

Social and cultural research has changed dramatically in the last few years in response to changing conceptions of the empirical, an intensification of interest in interdisciplinary work, and the growing need to communicate with diverse users and audiences.

If you have a child on the autism spectrum who struggles with the challenges of daily life, then this book is for you!

This student friendly book demonstrates how to take a critical approach to the research design process, to create feasible, original, and critical research works.

Law can keep up with rapid technological change by reflecting our evolving understanding of how humans use language to cooperate.

The solution to youth voter turnout requires focus on helping young people follow through on their political interests and intentions.

Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in today's rapidly changing media environment.

Practices - specific, recurrent types of human action and activity - are perhaps the most fundamental "e;building blocks"e; of social reality.

Research can seem difficult to get to grips with.

Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities.

This encyclopedia provides a concise introduction to the mental health topics of greatest concern to adolescents.

Born in the Netherlands at a time when girls are to be housewives and mothers and nothing else, Hendrika de Vries is a “daddy’s girl” until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the Resistance.

Proposing Empirical Research: A Guide to the Fundamentals provides step-by-step instructions for students who will be writing their first research proposal in the social and behavioral sciences and using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Methodological Issues in Aging Research is the first volume in the "e;Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology.

This new book provides a theoretical and practical guide to analysis of variance (ANOVA) for those who have not had a formal course in this technique, but need to use this analysis as part of their research.

Researching Education for Social Justice in Multilingual Settings provides innovative guidance on carrying out qualitative research in education by offering a wide range of examples of research projects with a focus on the methodologies and data collection strategies used.

This fully revised and updated second edition is an essential introduction to inferential statistics.

This book explores the possibilities of the relationships between theory and method as enacted in post-qualitative research.

In this passionately argued book, James M.

Research Ethics for Environmental Health explores the ethical basis of environmental health research and related aspects of risk assessment and control.

The Routledge Handbook of the Digital Environmental Humanities explores the digital methods and tools scholars use to observe, interpret, and manage nature in several different academic fields.

Providing an overview of key issues in theory and practice, Replication Research in Education is designed to identify and discuss the benefits and challenges facing replication studies in education.

Shortlisted for the 2021 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeThe Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography is an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field.

With its roots in Middle Eastern and North African dance, belly dance is a popular leisure activity in the West with women (and some men) of all ages and body types pursing the activity for diverse reasons.