Research methods: general

This thought-provoking book adopts a pluralistic framework to examine leadership and raises important questions about how leadership studies scholars see and do their work.

Kelly Harland's stories explore her son's life to the age of 14, and the new and unexpected universe she and her husband - both professional musicians - must learn to navigate with him.

Fusing the academic with the applied, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to social media for future communications professionals.

This accessible textbook introduces a wide spectrum of ideas, approaches, and examples that make up the emerging field of implementation science, including implementation theory, processes and methods, data collection and analysis, brokering interest on the ground, and sustainable implementation.

One central and enduring image of the social science researcher is of an individual who commits a great deal of time to collecting original, primary data from a field of enquiry.

Unique in its intergenerational approach to understanding motherhood in China, this book sets out to study Chinese mothers' experiences of childrearing, emphasising that gender is not immutable and that motherhood is not isolated from other social domains.

Concepts have always been foundational to the social science enterprise.

This book provides a thought-provoking guide to conducting collaborative arts-based research.

This important text shows how child development theory applies to professionals' working practice.

Can employees be trained to make more ethical decisions?

Qualitative research, particularly phenomenology, is increasingly popular as a method for midwifery and health-related research.

This second edition of Ethnographic Thinking: From Method to Mindset serves as a primer for practitioners who want to apply ethnography to real-world challenges and commercial ventures.

For many, the arms trade and its dealers are the root cause of regional wars and global terrorism.

A four year old Mexican American girl is taken away from her parents because she is obese and experiencing health problems related to her weight.

This practical, user-friendly guide consists of 100 original activities that have been designed to inspire and support educators of research ethics and integrity at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Provides new insights into the accuracy and value of online panels for completing surveys Over the last decade, there has been a major global shift in survey and market research towards data collection, using samples selected from online panels.

Straightforward, clear, and applied, this book will give you the theoretical and practical basis you need to apply data analysis techniques to real data.

Each family has its secrets, ones that shape family communication and relationships in a way generally unknown to the outsider and often the family itself.

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

In The Heart of Central New York: Stories of Historic Homer, NY Martin A.

Ronald J Pelias explores leaning as a metaphor for analyzing interpersonal interaction.

The Best American Series First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the countrys finest short fiction and nonfiction.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the archaeological uses of network science.

One of the greatest contributors to the field of Sociology, Jurgen Habermas has had a wide-ranging and significant impact on understandings of social change and social conflict.

Unlock the world of statistics with Discovering Statistics using JASP, a comprehensive guide that brings the power of JASP software into the classroom.

This is a book that thinks about what it means to be human and what this could mean for social research.

This volume lays out a variety of ways of engaging in research projects focused on exploring the everyday relational practices of organizing and leading is presented.

Crafting Scholarship helps readers improve their writing and publishing success in academia.

Once a synonym for death, cancer is now a prognosis of multiple probabilities and produces a world of uncertainty for carers.

The golden standard evaluation reference text Now in its second edition, Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications is the vital text on evaluation models, perfect for classroom use as a textbook, and as a professional evaluation reference.

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings.

Critical Thinking presents, defines and explains the intellectual skills and habits of mind that comprise critical thinking and its relationship to social justice.

This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines.

This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to data collection, cleaning, formatting, and storage, using Python and R.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of key themes and agendas in contemporary Participatory Design across diverse disciplines, continents, communities, and practices.

Based on the auto-ethnographic work of a team of scholars who developed the first Black Digital Humanities program at a research institution, this book details how to centralize Black feminist praxes of care, ethics, and Black studies in the digital humanities (DH).

In the big data age, this Element offers many modern methods and opensource code for learning from high dimensional data.

The politicizing of facts and factual claims has led some to abandon all talk of a meaningful distinction between a fact and a strongly held political commitment.

This lively and rigorous book provides guidance on planning and conducting postgraduate research.

This practical and easy-to-use book offers professional educators of any academic level, subject area, or position the tools, techniques, and strategies to disseminate, share, publish, and promote the results of their action research projects and studies.

This book investigates how health interventions are imagined into being in high-income countries, drawing on over seven years of fieldwork in the self-described "e;global health capital"e; Atlanta to consider the role of storytelling in the construction of global health futures.

Cantley's work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that mainstream architecture has yet to exploit.

For American children raised exclusively in wartime-that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia-and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience.

This textbook provides students with the skills and techniques necessary to analyse business case studies from a strategic perspective.

The ability to write to a high standard is a key skill that is often overlooked in the business world.