Research methods: general

Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media.

This volume is a groundbreaking discussion of the role of digital media in research on ancient painting, and a deep reflection on the effectiveness of digital media in opening the field to new audiences.

Written in easy-to-understand language, this important text provides a systematic and commonsense approach to developing instruments for data collection and analysis.

A cultural history of the concepts of reason and cause, showing that they are culturally and historically local.

Transformative Visions for Qualitative Inquiry takes as its central theme the idea of transformation, transformative action, transformative possibilities, and potentialities for the future for qualitative inquiry.

This volume describes a broad array of culturally sensitive research methods in psychology, addressing diverse issues such as implicit bias, identity development, trauma, and racism.

We may learn from our mistakes, but Deborah Mayo argues that, where experimental knowledge is concerned, we haven't begun to learn enough.

The management of organisations continues to evolve as new priorities emerge and new approaches are developed.

Those engaging in research to reduce youth inequality know that robust and resonant theories are needed alongside strong methods to study racialization, racism, and the consequences of racial categorization.

Marketing Analytics provides guidelines in the application of statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics Software (SPSS) for students and professionals using quantitative methods in marketing and consumer behavior.

Empirical Political Analysis introduces readers to the foundations of social science research.

Practice-Based Design Research provides a companion to masters and PhD programs in design research through practice.

This book should be viewed as a primer for any new or aspiring CMO, C-suite peer to marketing, or marketer looking to 'up their game', and as such it provides a range of ideas, concepts, approaches and considerations from a wide range of CMOs who are driving significant transformation within their organizations.

Takes the human-computer interaction researcher through the complete experimental process, from identifying a research question, to conducting an experiment and analysing the results.

Shaping Entrepreneurship Research: Made, as Well as Found is a collection of readings designed to support entrepreneurship research.

The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.

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

Which scientific results can we trust?

The monitoring of quality has been part of the educational landscape for many decades.

Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography.

Designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, Research from the Inside Out is an insider's guide to conducting empirically-based research.

Evaluation is a large and growing field with applications to a wide range of disciplines - including sociology, social work, social policy, psychology, health, nursing, education, community development, etc.

This classic text on multiple regression is noted for its nonmathematical, applied, and data-analytic approach.

Giving new insight into the theories behind management literature reviews, Advancing Methodologies of Conducting Literature Review in Management Domain explores a range of novel ideas on how to plan, organize, synthesize, and present the results from previous literature from across management research.

The Qualitative Dissertation in Education focuses on the experiences of students pursuing a doctorate in education and writing a qualitative dissertation.

Der berühmte Maler Albrecht Dürer - seine Schriften verraten mehr, als bisher erzählt, vor allem von den Schattenseiten seines Lebens.

Fully revised for the third edition, this popular text provides an advanced yet accessible introduction to the tools, terminology and research perspectives that students need to know in order to engage in academic debate and successfully complete research-based assignments.

Are you conducting business research for the first time and aren't sure where to begin?

The past 10 years have brought amazing changes to the technologies used to turn remotely sensed data into maps.

In several branches of social science, interest in values and moral evaluations has increased in recent years, with group values taking centre-stage, yet a satisfactory, theoretical account of the concept of values and their role in social life remains lacking.

Despite numerous books on research methodology, many have failed to present a complete, hands-on, practical book to lead college classes or individuals through the research process.

IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO DO A RESEARCH PROJECT, THEN THIS IS THE IDEAL GUIDE FOR YOU.

Comprehensive and comprehensible, this classic text covers the basic and advanced topics essential for using factor analysis as a scientific tool in psychology, education, sociology, and related areas.

Considering how practices and processes of research and education can create fundamental, radical social change, Democracy, Education and Research assesses the meaning of 'public impact' by rethinking what is meant by 'public' and how it is essential to the methodologies of education and research.

Decolonizing Educational Research examines the ways through which coloniality manifests in contexts of knowledge and meaning making, specifically within educational research and formal schooling.

Winchell and Runyon is about the bittersweet bonding of two legendary journalists who started out as adversaries but ended up as everlasting friends.

From choosing a supervisor and topic to staying motivated, completing a research thesis is not an easy matter.

Reading Autoethnography situates autoethnographic insights within the context of two fundamental concerns of critical qualitative inquiry: justice and love.

This book is an introduction to regression analysis, focusing on the practicalities of doing regression analysis on real-life data.

Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans brings together authors who are thinking in, with and through the spaces of ocean/s and beaches in South African contexts to make alternative knowledges towards a justice-to-come and flourishing at a planetary level.

This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission.

Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant's vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together.

Bringing together a unique set of narratives from social scientists who have been situated in risky environments, this volume discusses the moral and ethical dilemmas of doing fieldwork in environments that are characterised by insecurity.

This essay, first published in 1980, analyses the relationship between intellectuals' social locations and their political orientations.

The Generic Qualitative Approach to a Dissertation in the Social Sciences: A Step by Step Guide is a practical guide for the graduate students and faculty planning and executing a generic qualitative dissertation in the social sciences.

Dissertation Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences focuses specifically on the methodology for planning, writing and submitting your dissertation thesis.

An updated, centralised volume for health-centred researchers, reflecting modern research from changing grant awarding expectations to software.