Research methods: general

Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide for Applied Research, 2nd Edition provides a practical orientation to conducting effective qualitative research in the public health sphere.

Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts: Maps, Archives, and Timelines cultivates the spatial thinking "e;habit of mind"e; as a critical geographical view of how the world works, including how environmental systems function, and how we can approach and solve environmental problems using maps, archives, and timelines.

Psychological Statistics: The Basics walks the reader through the core logic of statistical inference and provides a solid grounding in the techniques necessary to understand modern statistical methods in the psychological and behavioral sciences.

This timely volume introduces a new social class schema, the European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC), which has been specifically developed and tested for use in EU comparative research.

Brings together chapters from more than a dozen leading methods scholars to revolutionize qualitative research design.

Responding to the widespread and continued acceleration of virtual working practices in recent years, Virtual Presenting provides a clear guide to producing, presenting, and broadcasting in a remote context.

Aspects of pedagogy are frequently researched, but the concept itself is poorly understood.

The Class Gap in Protest Participation discusses a theoretically grounded empirical analysis of the relationship between class and protest involvement across Central Eastern and Western Europe.

In this entertaining and accessible exploration of love, Oxford anthropologist Dr Anna Machin dives into the science behind the myriad types of love that exist in the world, including romantic love, parental love, friendships, love for pets, football teams, religious love and even love for our smartphones.

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Approaching qualitative research for the first time and unsure how to get started?

This book explores folk school pedagogies through craft as creative inquiry.

Inequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVID uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems: economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

How do campaign promises affect voter behavior?

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

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

Social Sequence Analysis is a comprehensive guide to analytic methods that brings together foundational, theoretical and methodological work on social sequences.

In spite of the fact that crime is an emotive topic, the question of emotion has been largely overlooked in criminological research, which has tended instead to examine criminal conduct in terms of structural background variables or rational decision-making.

As the air travel industry begins to emerge from the COVID-19 restrictions, new research must be undertaken to survey the changing business landscape.

Talking White Trash documents the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people-a task inspired by the author's experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to understand herself through watching films and television shows.

International Perspectives on Autoethnographic Research and Practice is the first volume of international scholarship on autoethnography.

The contemporary world currently faces multi-level challenges, including cross-border migration, economic crises and myriad health issues, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

2017 PROSE Award Honorable MentionThe PROSE Awards draw attention to pioneering works of research and for contributions to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields.

The emergence of religious fundamentalism in a globalized, post-colonial world poses a significant challenge to the "e;End of History"e; narratives common in academic and non-academic literature alike.

The Craft of Political Research is a nontechnical introduction to research design and analysis in political science, emphasizing the choices we make when we design a research project and analyze its results.

This is the first comprehensive survey in English of research methods in the field of religious studies.

This book investigates gender equality and women's empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing especially on women's interactions with the state and its development partners.

Originally published in 1983, Broadman and Montgomery present an agenda for further research into deregulated natural gas markets by relating natural gas production, transmission and distribution with the economic function of contracts and local distribution companies.

Responding to the growing need for educators to have a deeper understanding of cultural diversity, this book provides a theoretically-rich and empirically-sound analysis of diversity education, to develop a new cultural diversity pedagogy.

This book focuses on a key issue in the methodology of the social and behavioural sciences: the mixing of different research methods.

Intended as a guide for those wishing to draw on research techniques in order to inform the planning and undertaking of multi-method evaluation studies of educational initiatives.

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.

Exploring Digital Ethnography: From Principles to Practice places digital ethnography within the context of the production of multimedia, multisensory "e;research-creation"e; pieces using a variety of methods, tools, and techniques.

Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability.

This book investigates the situated (re)production of categories, from the most mundane and unremarkable to those most strongly associated with power and privilege.

This book is a guide for medical residents and faculty in the fundamentals of clinical research, publication practices, and conference skills.

Designed to support global development of nursing science, the Routledge International Handbook of Advanced Quantitative Methods in Nursing Research provides a new, comprehensive, and authoritative treatment of advanced quantitative methods for nursing research.

The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections-be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices.

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

Quantitative Methodologies using Multi-Methods is a multifaceted book written to help researchers.

Praise for the First Edition:'A warm feeling of positive reassurance and guidance runs throughout the book.

Conversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice provides unique insights into the experiences of eight established creative practitioners who use their creative process in a professional and personal context.

Children and Autism presents seven heartwarming and compelling stories of children who have triumphed over the challenge of autism.

Modeling the impact and influence of contextual factors on human development is something that many talk about but few actually do.

This concise textbook presents students with all they need for advancing in mathematical economics.

Contributions in this volume cover ways of knowing, the dynamics of research encounters, new methods of psycho-social inquiry, and the first-hand experience of being a researcher.

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

Religious and spiritual engagement has undergone multiple significant changes in recent decades.