Research Methods: General

Unlock the world of statistics with Discovering Statistics using JASP, a comprehensive guide that brings the power of JASP software into the classr...

Max van Manen offers an extensively updated edition of Phenomenology of Practice: Meaning-Giving Methods in Phenomenological Research and Writing t...

Introducing the reader to grounded methodology and its ethical approach, this book explores the theory behind the method as well as how to use it t...

Postdisciplinary Knowledge is the first book to articulate postdisciplinarity in philosophical, theoretical and methodological terms, helping to es...

Developed in response to the theoretically driven mainstream sociology, institutional ethnography starts from people’s everyday experiences, and wo...

"We can be grateful that Dr. Stake decided to cap his distinguished career by sharing his ideas in writing. This is a book that evaluators will wan...

Librarians understand the need to store, use and analyze data related to their collection, patrons and institution, and there has been consistent i...

Practical Research Methods for Nonprofit and Public Administrators, Second Edition, covers basic principles of research design, data collection, da...

Few subjects of social scientific inquiry need interpretive analysis more than the topic of racial politics, yet most US political science employs ...

This text is about doing science and the active process of reading, learning, thinking, generating ideas, designing experiments, and the logistics ...

Bringing together a unique collection of 18 insightful and innovative internationally focused articles, Educational Research Practice in Southern C...

It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. I...

The past two decades have seen an increasing emphasis on large and interdisciplinary research configurations such as research networks, and centers...

"I do not believe I have ever seen a work of this kind that so thoroughly and so carefully examines the important consideration of working with the...

A Comprehensive Guide to Studying and Interpreting Communication Interaction   This practical book provides students and experienced researchers...

Written for researchers and graduate students writing dissertations, this unique book offers detailed advice and perspective on many issues that ca...

A Companion to Survey Research provides a critical overview and guide to survey methods. Rather than a set of formulas, survey design is understood...

Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives is a landmark volume providing students, university lecturers, and practitioners with a comprehensive and ...

"I liked the discussion of blending qualitative and quantitative research. I particularly liked the tone that it is not an "either or" discussion, ...

Librarians understand the need to store, use and analyze data related to their collection, patrons and institution, and there has been consistent i...

Just starting out with social research? With contributions from experts across the social sciences, this book equips you with the tools for success...

Just starting out with social research? With contributions from experts across the social sciences, this book equips you with the tools for success...

"We can be grateful that Dr. Stake decided to cap his distinguished career by sharing his ideas in writing. This is a book that evaluators will wan...

The ability to produce valid research has never been more crucial to the academic community than it is today, but how do you go about getting the f...

Writing and Unrecognized Academic Labor acknowledges that much of the work we do to sustain the academy remains without recognition. It demonstrate...

Changing Art into Research: Soliloquy Methodology presents a research methodology that enables inquiry into one’s personal experiences in an endeav...

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Narrative Research?, this title is now also available as part of the Blooms...

"The strength of the book is its thoroughness and how it actually takes the reader inside the experience, step-by-step, of conducting a Needs Asses...

A traditional approach to developing multivariate statistical theory is algebraic. Sets of observations are represented by matrices, linear combina...

First Published in 2004. An authoritative guide to the problems and procedures associated with data collection and analysis in field research.

Shared and Collaborative Practice in Qualitative Inquiry: Tiny Revolutions is a short collection of reflections on ethical research practice and sc...

Practical Research Methods for Nonprofit and Public Administrators, Second Edition, covers basic principles of research design, data collection, da...

In an environment where increasing amounts of information (and fake news) flood the internet on websites and social media, the information professi...

Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a multi-disciplinary volume in which emerging...

"The writing style is good, clear, and accurate, with a logical presentation of material. The checklists are effective learning aids." --Carol J....

Social Work students often find research an intimidating and complex area of study, with many struggling to understand the core concepts and their ...

The second volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies maps the distribution of social powers and associated properties and lifestyles in...

While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguis...

This book is the first of its kind to apply social contextual analysis to the issue of poverty. It sets out detailed accounts of poverty based on o...

Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly resource has now been revised and updated, and offers expanded coverage o...

Weber and Durkheim: A methodological comparison is a systematic, comparative analysis of the methodologies of Max Weber and Émile Durkheim. Jensen ...

Academics around the world recognise the effectiveness of storytelling as a way to engage audiences in conversations, raising awareness of issues, ...

This concise textbook presents students with all they need for advancing in mathematical economics. Detailed yet student-friendly, Vohra's book con...

Co-authored by an international team of experts across disciplines, this important book is one of the first to demonstrate the enormous benefit cre...

Research in the College Context, 2nd Edition provides faculty, students, practitioners, and researchers in the college environment with a manual of...

Literary Research and Irish Literature: Strategies & Sources explores primary and secondary research resources relevant to the study of Irish l...

Statistical Analysis: The Basics provides an engaging and easy‑to‑read primer on this sometimes daunting subject. Intended for those with little or...

Teacher inquiry helps improve educational outcomes Practitioner Teacher Inquiry and Research explores the concept and importance of the teacher pr...