Research methods: general

This volume is a call to qualitative researchers to respond to the political and methodological conservativism of the new millennium.

Fundamentals of Qualitative Research approaches qualitative inquiry as a strategically selected composite of genres, elements, and styles.

Doing a Research Project in English Studies is the essential guide to undertaking research and developing academic English literacy skills for students new to research.

One of the major changes in the social science research landscape in recent years has been the introduction of computerised panel surveys in Europe and the US which make longitudinal data widely available to graduate students for the first time.

This book represents examples of innovations in digital humanities (DH) efforts across India while theorizing disparate challenges and its negotiations.

The Film in National Life (1932) is the report by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films, established in 1929, that aimed to establish a position on the treatment of film constructively in the interests of education in its widest sense.

This handbook provides library and information professionals with the information they need to undertake research projects in the workplace in order to inform their own practice and improve service delivery.

This accessible book explores what friendship is and why it's so important to our well-being and provides practical suggestions for teens and young adults wishing to experience deeper, more fulfilling connections.

Involvement of community partners in the structure and design of services is largely accepted in principle, but its practice is heavily contested.

This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances.

At the bottom of the sea, freedivers find that the world bestows humans with the magic of bodily and mental freedom, binding them in small communities of play, affect and respect for nature.

The Routledge International Handbook of Autoethnography in Educational Research presents diverse and rigorous contemporary research at the intersection between autoethnography and educational research.

This title was first published in 2001.

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the reality that this place is where they will die.

From first planning to writing up your research, this complete guide will help you push your project forward.

The industry standard guide, updated with new ideas and SPSS analysis techniques Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide Fourth Edition is the industry standard resource that covers all major components of the survey process, updated to include new data analysis techniques and SPSS procedures with sample data sets online.

Without question, biostatistical analysis has contributed to a slew of amazing medical breakthroughs.

Social Researching (1984) examine the 'stories' about 'real' research in social sciences and its problems, and discusses funding, publication, the history of major projects, postgraduate work and issues raised by feminists doing research, as well as the practical, ethical and political difficulties.

How employable will you be when you graduate from your business and management degree?

Meet Max - a boy with Tourette syndrome (TS).

This book teaches academics how to successfully present their work as well as themselves, and make a lasting impression.

Taking lesbians in Singapore as a case study, this book explores the possibility of a modern gay identity in a postcolonial society, that is not dependent on Western queer norms.

Techniques for interpreting commonly used discrete choice models, illustrated with extensive examples including replication code and data.

This volume presents a collection of chapters focused on the study of multivariate change.

Presents a comprehensive treatment of issues related to the inception, design, implementation and reporting of large-scale education assessments.

Scholarly Research for Musicians presents a range of research methods and techniques, incorporating both the common elements of traditional music research methodologies with innovative research strategies endemic to the fields of social science, education, and performance science.

Writing Literature Reviews: A Guide for Students of the Social and Behavioral Sciences provides students with practical guidelines for the complex process of writing literature reviews for course projects, theses or dissertations, and research manuscripts for publication.

Pattern Theory is a groundbreaking exploration of the concept of pattern across a range of disciplines, including science, neuroscience, psychology, and social sciences.

This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence and provides a forum for field-based researchers to tell their stories.

This unique volume presents the latest scientific achievements of library researchers and professionals on the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Libraries.

In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption, and globalisation, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities?

Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life invites the reader into Ronald J.

This book defines, illustrates, applies, and explores current and future tools and methods for measuring landscape performance using the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center (HANC) as a case site, providing the most extensive, comprehensive description and application of existing landscape performance tools in the current literature to date.

Categorical Statistics for CommunicationResearch presents scholars with a discipline-specific guide to categorical data analysis.

This book is a how-to guide on statistical analyses designed for undergraduates and others new to the subject.

This book explains divergent media system trajectories in the countries in southeast Europe, and challenges the presumption that the common socialist experience critically influences a common outcome in media development after democratic transformations, by showing different remote and proximate configuration of conditions that influence their contemporary shape.

An incisive guide that helps up-and-coming economists become successful scholarsThe Economist's Craft introduces graduate students and rising scholars to the essentials of research, writing, and other critical skills for a successful career in economics.

A new turn in mixed methods research is here: merged methods.

The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies.

This original and challenging book introduces the ground-breaking concept of 'invisible education', theorising it with critical posthuman concepts and demonstrating it through a wide range of empirical research.

The potential misuse of advances in life sciences research is raising concerns about national security threats.

At risk of life and reputation, the reform journalist W.

Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the heart of science can help you get the most out of lifeToday's world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy.

This introductory text explains the use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a research methodology.

Is society possible without accounting?

This text teaches readers how to plan, conduct, and write a research project and select and interpret data through its integrated approach to quantitative research methods.

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