Research methods: general

This impactful guide takes you through the process of effective reflective practice with a clear and creative focus on helping you be successful in your professional and academic life.

Integrating Converging Evidence in Behavioral Sciences presents a fresh approach to understanding the landscape of scientific research, particularly within the behavioral sciences.

Posing fundamental questions around the worth of knowledge creation and the social value of in-depth research, this volume offers a novel approach by exploring why impact is important in academic research, rather than explaining how it should be conducted.

Designed Experiments for Science and Engineering is a versatile and overarching toolkit that explores various methods of designing experiments for over 20 disciplines in science and engineering.

This timely and informative book reasserts the value of Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR): an approach to participatory action research (PAR) that is informed by critical theories attending to questions of privilege and power, and that generates collaborations focused on challenging structural inequality.

A Guide for Statistical Tests and Interpretations with SPSS is designed for students taking basic and advanced courses in statistics, taking an integrative and practical approach to learning statistics.

Exploring gender through the lens of field theory, Gender Fields proposes a new framework for understanding the social organisation of gender identity.

This book positions the concept of Storying as integral to leadership in qualitative research, drawing on a wide range of studies and perspectives by diverse, minoritized leaders.

Exploring the nuances and complexities in men's and women's accounts of how mainstream pornography is experienced in their everyday lives, this book demonstrates how pornography can be both a site for pleasure and pain across gendered lines.

Emerging markets due to their dynamism, resilience and complexities are a significant area of study for management theorists and practitioners.

Writing as Inquiry Towards Being and Becoming provides a guide to the different phases of growth experienced when undertaking creative forms of academic writing and inquiry.

The fourth edition of this seminal work introduces students to social constructionism.

This text outlines the relative merits of qualitative interviewing to new and emerging scholars in an accessible way.

This collection spotlights the authentic voices of plurilingual learners, bringing together autoethnographies of over twenty graduate students to deepen current understandings of lived experiences of plurilingualism.

Contributing to a lively dialogue with Anglo-American and French theorists, The Lonely Mirror (originally published in 1993) sets out to contextualize Italian feminist theory within the international debate.

Doing a research project or dissertation can be daunting.

This is the definitive guide to doing constructivist grounded theory.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Teacher Action Research is an authoritative and innovative treatment of language teacher action research (LTAR) as a growing research field.

This book focuses on the value and necessity of modern sociology to Pope Francis's church reform project known as the Synod on Synodality.

Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.

Around the globe, faculty and higher education leaders are actively changing what they teach to create a sustainable world.

This book explains how the Columbia model of sociology, which was based on the methodology of P.