Research Methods: General

How to Structure a Thesis, Report or Paper provides concise practical guidance for students to help make their writing more structured at any level...

As computers proliferate and as the field of computer graphics matures, it has become increasingly important for computer scientists to understand ...

This title was first published in 2002.The connectedness and degree of intimacy that forms between researcher and the researched in qualitative inq...

In this book, Hackett introduces the traditional usage of the mapping sentence within quantitative research, reviews its philosophical underpinning...

What is evidence-based policing and how is it done? This book provides an answer to both questions, offering an introduction for undergraduate stud...

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory. Based on fieldwork conducted by...

This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly, young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So, wh...

This book is about going beyond dichotomy. The research literature in social sciences is full of apparent dichotomies such as the dichotomy between...

Bringing together one of the most important bodies of research into people's working practices, this volume outlines the specific character of the ...

Philosophy is inescapable. This is the powerful mantra and call to action of this authoritative and informative collection of essays. Acting upon t...

A PhD is the start of the research careers, and these students are the backbone of Universities and research institutions. It is the opportunity fo...

This book brings into focus the technologically augmented nature of global online communities, advancing research methods that reveal the imprint o...

In several branches of social science, interest in values and moral evaluations has increased in recent years, with group values taking centre-stag...

Anthropology has a critical, practical role to play in contemporary debates about futures. This game-changing new book presents new ways of concept...

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdiscipli...

In the new Fourth Edition of her inventive, one-of-a-kind book, author Valerie J. Janesick uses dance, yoga, and meditation metaphors to help resea...

Expand your understanding of educational research with this practice-first introduction.   Written specifically for education practitioners, An I...

This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice. Drawing o...

This practical book provides clear, step-by-step guidance on how to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework in a participatory, logical, syst...

The first book to provide a unified framework for both single-level and multilevel modeling of ordinal categorical data, Applied Ordinal Logistic R...

This accessible introductory text addresses the core knowledge domain of research methods. It provides concise coverage of the central concepts, te...

This book is a simple yet thorough introduction to Q methodology, a research technique designed to capture the subjective or first-person viewpoint...

This book investigates gender equality and womens empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing especially on womens interactions with the state and its de...

This timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorise research in human-animal studies. In response to critiques of the ...

This fully revised and updated second edition is an essential introduction to inferential statistics. It is the first introductory statistics text ...