Research methods: general

The field of education is rife with calls to action and for research to improve higher-level thinking and learning outcomes in primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

Qualitative Research Approaches for Psychotherapy offers the reader a range of current qualitative research approaches congruent with the values and practices of psychotherapy itself: experience-based, reflective, contextualized, and critical.

Qualitative Metasynthesis presents a research method developed for upcycling and synthesis of qualitative primary studies, aimed at researchers within medicine and health sciences.

Any piece of primary research ought to be preceded by a systematic review.

Intersectionality is one of the most popular theoretical paradigms in gender studies and feminist theory today.

This book sets out to provide postgraduate researchers with guidance on selecting and applying sociotechnical theories to the study of information systems, including how they can be combined to complement each other.

Methodological Concepts: A Critical Guide clarifies many key terms and issues in social research methodology.

This invaluable resource guides readers through the process of creating scholarly, publishable prose from the results of quantitative experiments and investigations.

Broadband, or high-speed internet, has been called the most important infrastructure challenge of the century.

The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data aregenerated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences.

Carolyn Ellis is a prominent writer in the move toward personal, reflexive writing as an approach to academic research.

Offers an entirely new way of thinking about how psychology works and how it constructs knowledge, using a process-based approach.

This work, which provides a guide for revising and expanding statistical and quantitative methods pedagogy, is useful for novice and seasoned instructors at both undergraduate and graduate levels, inspiring them to use transformative approaches to train students as future researchers.

Gender as a social class along with its concomitant heteronormative gender coercion seem to be intransigent across time and cultures.

Phyllis Noerager Stern and Caroline Porr provide the most accessible description of grounded theory methods to date in this brief, clear, and useful guide.

Practical theology as a subject area has grown and become more sophisticated in its methods and self-understanding over the last few decades.

John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in creating them.

Written specifically for siblings of children with Tourette Syndrome (TS), Why Do You Do That?

YoungGiftedandFat is a critical autoethnography of "e;performing thin"e;- on the stage and in life.

This book explores what identity is, what factors contribute to it, how it develops, and the impacts that a strong or weak sense of self can have on a person's health, happiness, and future.

This book considers post-19th-century Athens as a unique instance of a secret side of metropolitan capitalism.

Qualitative research cultivates exploratory ways of thinking that can serve as a vehicle to disseminate findings for researchers, scientists, and principal investigators.

This book is the first to explore what design can do for sociolegal research.

Bringing together the techniques required to understand, interpret and quantify the processes involved when exploring structures and relationships in questionnaire data, Quantitative Analysis of Questionnaires provides the knowledge and capability for a greater understanding of choice decisions.

From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued.

Such nuances and shifts in the music of a patient's voice have long been familiar to clinicians.

An informative real-world guide to studying the "e;why"e; of human behavior Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods is a practical, comprehensive guide to the collection and presentation of qualitative data.

This final book in Paul Atkinson's celebrated quartet on ethnographic research investigates material culture and its relationship to sensory ethnography.

Traditional research discourses continue to present academic work as rational, detached, objective and free from emotion.

This gripping book considers the history, techniques, and goals of child-targeted consumer campaigns and examines children's changing perceptions of what commodities they "e;need"e; to be valued and value themselves.

As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material.

This updated edition is an examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, exploring its roots to analyze its current state.

This collection aims to fill in the deep gaps of vital contributions that have been erased from the sexuality field, illuminating the historical and current work, strategies, solutions, and thoughts from sexologists that have been excluded until now.

A comprehensive guidebook to the current methodologies and practices used in health surveys A unique and self-contained resource, Handbook of Health Survey Methods presents techniques necessary for confronting challenges that are specific to health survey research.

Biomass currently accounts for about 15 per cent of the global primary energy consumption and is particularly important as an energy resource in developing countries.

An in-depth, comprehensive and practical guide to egocentric network analysis, focusing on fundamental theoretical, research design, and analytic issues.

All students, practitioners and researchers in forestry and related disciplines need a good grounding in statistics and probability.

This book is a concise hands-on guide that provides students a useful tool for a systematic approach to scientific inquiry.

Whether you're new to UX or a seasoned practitioner, The User Experience Team of One gives you everything you need to succeed, emphasizing downtoearth approaches that deliver big impact over timeconsuming, needlessly complex techniques.

This book examines how schooling-the restrictive, oppressive, and disciplinary force in much U.

NEW: updated eResources, 'Case Studies for Teaching on Race, Racism and Black Lives Matter.

Cross-border studies have become attractive for a number of fields, including international migration, studies of material and cultural globalization, and history.

Informed by the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and framed by the philosophy of harm reduction, Habitus and Drug Using Environments provides a sociological analysis of public environments affected by injecting drug use.

Interrupted Time Series Analysis develops a comprehensive set of models and methods for drawing causal inferences from time series.

The early years of American nationhood, beginning at the close of colonial rule and ending with the onset of the Civil War, saw both a young country and its literature grow in confidence and develop an awareness of self-identity.

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.

Research Methods for the Architectural Profession introduces research as a systematic process, describes how to formulate research questions, provides an in-depth explanation of different research methods (qualitative, quantitative, and experimental), and explains how to select appropriate research methods and execute research studies.

Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research offers a refreshingly innovative discourse theory perspective on populist phenomena.