The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods

About

Malcolm Williams is Professor and Director of the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Prior to joining Cardiff in 2010 he was Professor of Social Research Methodology and Head of the School of Psychosocial Sciences at the University of Plymouth where he taught for 16 years. Malcolm has designed and taught modules in the philosophy of social research for 18 years at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. In these he has introduced a number of innovative pedagogic techniques such as Problem Based Learning and Concept Speed Dating in which students take a key idea and move from table to table attempting to build conceptual links between ideas.Additionally he has taught many modules and short courses in social theory research design questionnaire design scaling sampling scientific method and history of science. Williams has an extensive publishing record in philosophy of social research including: Introduction to Philosophy of Social Research (with Tim May Routledge 1996) Knowing the Social World (with Tim May OUP 1998) Science and Social Science (Routledge 2000) Making Sense of Social Research (SAGE 2003) Philosophical Foundations of Social Research (SAGE 2006) Teaching Quantitative Methods (with Geoff Payne SAGE 2011) Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research (with Gayle Letherby and John Scott SAGE 2012) and The SAGE Handbook of Innovations in Social Research (with W Paul Voght SAGE 2014). W. Paul Vogt is Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University where he won both teaching and research awards. He specializes in methodological choice and program evaluation and is particularly interested in ways to integrate multiple methods. His other books include: Tolerance & Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage Publications 1998); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn & Bacon 2007); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (coedited with Walter Stephan Teachers College Press 2004). He is also editor of four 4-volume sets in the series Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods: Selecting Research Methods (2008); Data Collection (2010); Quantitative Research Methods (2011); and with Burke Johnson Correlation and Regression Analysis (2012).His most recent publications include the coauthored When to Use What Research Design (2012) and Selecting the Right Analyses for Your Data: Quantitative Qualitative and Mixed Methods Approaches (2014).