Research methods: general

This comprehensive textbook is designed to equip researchers, academics, and students with the essential tools and knowledge needed to conduct advanced research across various disciplines.

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.

The leading figure in qualitative health research (QHR), Janice M.

This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry.

Exploring why prison officers leave His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the processes and trajectories involved in returning to 'civilian life', this book examines the reasons that prison officers want to leave HMPPS and how they transition back to 'civvy street'.

This practical book sets out how to approach each stage of your research project, from choosing a research design and methodology to collecting and analysing data and communicating your results - and showcases best practice along the way.

This book will support you through each milestone of your research project with step-by-step instructions to doing qualitative research.

This book helps readers develop a comprehensive understanding of diagnostics for strategic decision-making, with a focus on a method called rapid due diligence.

This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa - including George Marcus himself, the person most associated with the term and the method.

This concise course in data analysis and inference for the mathematically literate builds on survey sampling and designed experiments.

Aimed at students and practitioners involved in supporting such children, and designed to give them an insight into what it means to raise a child with such multiple needs.

This boundary-spanning textbook explores diverse ways that visual display can advance understanding of complex social phenomenon in applied fields in the social and human sciences.

Rooted in a long and diverse genealogy, biographical approaches have developed from a focus upon a single story, a 'life story' and personal documents (e.

Introduction to Statistics with SPSS offers an introduction to statistics that can be used before, during or after a course on statistics.

Quantitative and Statistical Research Methods This user-friendly textbook teaches students to understand and apply procedural steps in completing quantitative studies.

This book is the first to place the contemporary debate over media bias in historical context, illustrating how partisan bias in the American media has built political parties, set the stage for several wars, and even contributed to the rise and fall of U.

This volume brings together accounts from facilitating or 'brokering' researchers in three settings afflicted by armed conflict, including DR Congo, Sierra Leone and Jharkhand, India.

Cases and Stories of Transformative Action Research builds on its companion book, Principles and Methods of Transformative Action Research, by describing and analyzing dozens of examples of successful action research efforts pursued in the past five decades by students and faculty of the Western Institute for Social Research.

This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research.

Nga Kuaha: Voices and Visions in Maori Healing and Psychiatry explores what it means to hear voices and see visions from the perspectives of Maori healer Wiremu NiaNia and psychiatrist Allister Bush.

Sexuality is a difficult topic for all educators.

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.

This book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which existences in the world are always already coexistences - and to parse the heuristic, ethical, epistemological, praxeological consequences of this recognition.

Using Narrative Inquiry as a Research Method is the ideal introduction to a growing field of study.

Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism explores contemporary UK national and local newspapers at a significant and pivotal moment in their development when some pundits are busily, if mistakenly, announcing their demise.

Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, criminologists and psychologists all rethink, provoke and reignite social scientific methodology.

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

This book is about how work enters and affects the lives of children in Africa, taking for granted neither the traditional values surrounding children,s work, nor the international standards against it.

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives?

Design and Analysis in Quantitative Educational Research: Univariate Designs in SPSS presents an integrated approach to learning about research design alongside statistical analysis concepts.

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.

The student-focused guide to grounded theory, this book takes you step by step through the whole research process, from creating a research proposal to sharing your findings.

Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life.

Updated with new chapters on multiple regression and high-level research methods, this 4th edition of Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology delivers all you need to develop a practical understanding of both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in psychology.

This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using the open source software R.

Gewalt als soziales Phänomen lässt sich als eine komplexe Konstruktion definieren, die einem sozialen, kulturellen und historischem Wandel unterliegt.

This innovative book explores the links between the options of world-wide globalisation and European integration, which are open to today's corporations.

Research Methods in Linguistics guides the reader through the key issues, principles, and contributions of core methods in linguistic research.

This book is about going beyond dichotomy.

Methodological Issues in Aging Research is the first volume in the "e;Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology.

The social sciences rely more on the comparative method than on experimental data mainly because the latter is difficult to acquire amongst human populations.

A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education brings together more than 60 faculty experts.

Policy Diffusion Dynamics in America explores why some policies spread more rapidly across states than others.

This volume:* explores the extent to which European Industrial Relations systems are converging*explores what has been the unions' reaction to changes in the economic environment* includes studies from key sectors: electronics, food manufacturing, banking and public administration* compares trade unions in these sectors in five of Europes most important economies: Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy and Denmark

This Element explains the statistical foundations of computerized adaptive inventories and how to use the tools provided to implement them.