Filled with sample research questions, interview protocols, script excerpts, and staging tips, this book explains the "what’s," "whys," and "how-tos" of using ethnodrama as a qualitative arts-based research methodology.
Joe Salvatore draws on decades of experience as an ethnodramatist and educator to present his unique, ethically grounded, step-by-step approach.
Readers learn how to balance artistry and research as they identify a topic and research question, recruit participants and conduct interviews, code and analyze interview data, arrange findings into a script, stage a performance, and invite an audience to view and interpret the play.
Ways to assess an ethnodrama's effectiveness and impact are also addressed.
Instructive features include end-of-chapter learning activities; bold key terms and an end-of-book glossary; and suggested studies, plays, and performance pieces for further engagement.
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Case Study Research
The
Art of Studying the Singular
By Helen Simons
Written from an interpretive and constructionist perspective, this insightful book explores how to conduct case study research focusing on the lived experience of those in the case.
Helen Simons shines a spotlight on the use of art forms and story in case research alongside other qualitative methods that advance intuitive understanding and inclusion.
Underpinning this focus are epistemic justice and democratic ethics. In a lively, personal style, Simons distills expertise and practical wisdom gained over decades of conducting case study research of programs, policies, and institutions.
Chapters consider how to design, conduct, and interpret case study research; write up cases for different audiences; assure validity and quality; and generalize from a single case.
Helpful features include examples, summaries, practical tips, "Pauses to Reflect," and annotated suggestions for further reading.
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Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo 4/e
By Jenine Beekhuyzen, Pat Bazeley
Looking to use NVivo in your qualitative research? With easy-touse instructions and screenshots for both Windows and Mac users, this book first covers the basics of coding in NVivo before helping you extend your knowledge and confidence using the software.
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Handbook of ArtsBased Research 2/e
Constructing Grounded Theory 3/e
By Patricia Leavy
The first methods handbook devoted solely to arts-based research (ABR) is now in a thoroughly updated second edition, featuring a new section on global perspectives plus new chapters on critical approaches and documentary film. The volume explores the synergies between contemporary artistic and research practices and addresses issues in designing, implementing, evaluating, and publishing ABR studies.
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By Kathy Charmaz
This is the definitive guide to doing constructivist grounded theory. From gathering rich data and conducting interviews, to undertaking coding and writing up your study, this down-toearth book guides you through all the steps you need to do grounded theory research.
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The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers 5/e
By Johnny Saldana
Unlock the full potential of your qualitative research projects with this invaluable manual from world-renowned authority Johnny Saldaña. This essential guide delves into the latest advancements in coding, including the integration of AI tools like ChatGPT-4, empowering researchers to enhance their data analysis processes and outcomes. Grounded advice that bridges the gap between data generation and analysis.
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A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research 2/e
By David Silverman
The Second Edition of Qualitative Research provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. The author uses updated content, ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, to demonstrate how getting to grips with qualitative methods mean asking ourselves fundamental questions about how we are influenced by contemporary culture. Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.
Doing Qualitative Research 6/e
By David Silverman
Need practical advice on how to do your first qualitative research project? This book will guide you through each step of the research process: from brainstorming ideas and working with your supervisor to navigating the field to writing up your results. Driven by examples from other students’ projects, the book features discussions on translating social problems into research topics, collecting data in the wake of a pandemic, and guidance from Qualitative Data Analysis Software Expert Christian Schmieder to help you summarize, categories, and review qualitative data. A new chapter on how much data you need answers the age-old question: how many interviews or case studies are enough?’
Interpreting Qualitative Data 7/e
By David Silverman
In his signature pragmatic and friendly style, David Silverman acts as your stand-in supervisor in the seventh edition of this book, taking you step-by-step through different methods for making sense of qualitative data. Whether you are interested in analyzing visual images, interviews, focus groups or online data, this book provides a clear framework for using qualitative data to answer your research questions.
The book provides:
• A strong grounding in research design principles so you can embed best practice into your research project,
• Diverse real-world examples so you can see how principles are applied in practice,
• Coverage of new developments in qualitative research including working with online data.
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Qualitative Research Methods for Business Students A
Global Approach
By Kingsley Obi Omeihe, Christian Harrison
Qualitative Research Methods for Business Students: A Global Approach provides a practical and accessible overview of qualitative research methods and their philosophical underpinnings. The textbook will empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the dynamic landscape of qualitative research.
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Researching Digital Media and Society
Researching Digital Life
Orientations, Methods and Practice
By Simon Lindgren, Moa Eriksson Krutrak
We live in an increasingly digitized society. In an age of digital identities, rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence and ever more sophisticated software available, our methods for researching digital media must be flexible and adaptable. This book will help you to understand why researchers in this field choose and use research methods, equipping you to put these methods into practice across the whole range of undergraduate media courses.
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By James Ash, Rob Kitchin
This multidisciplinary textbook introduces you to the interconnectivity of digital space, technology, objects, people and data. It provides a theoretical framework for grounding your understanding of digital life. You will be introduced to relevant methods for exploring digital life and, by explaining their benefits and disadvantages, you can select the most appropriate method to answer your research questions
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Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research
By Patricia Leavy
Ideal for graduate students and more seasoned qualitative researchers, this is the first guide to writing and publishing in a range of both scholarly and popular formats from journal articles and monographs to op-eds and fictional works. Awardwinning author Patricia Leavy provides insights on developing a unique writer’s voice, crafting successful book proposals, understanding publishing contracts, and building relationships with editors.
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An Introduction to Qualitative Research 7/e
By Uwe Flick
Continuing to be THE guide to the whole qualitative research process for students, this book looks at both the theory behind qualitative research and how to put it into practice in your own work. For students across a range of social science disciplines and beyond, this is a must to help you enhance your research project.
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The How to of Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research for Quantitative Researchers
By Janice Aurini, Melanie Heath
This book will support you through each milestone of your research project with step-by-step instructions for doing qualitative research. Whatever type of data or data collection method you use, it will help you to navigate the nuts and bolts of qualitative research, from forming your research question to effectively writing up.
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By Helen Kara
Approaching qualitative research for the first time and unsure how to get started? This book captures what you need to know to jump into effective qualitative or mixed methods research. The book gets you up to speed on the specifics of qualitative research, while showing how it complements quantitative research and how to draw on and hone your existing skills to conduct impactful research.
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AUD$: 111.00
Essentials of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
By Jonathan A. Smith, Isabella E Nizza
Essentials of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis is a stepby-step guide to a research method that investigates how people make sense of their lived experience in the context of their personal and social worlds. It is especially well-suited to exploring experiences perceived as highly significant, such as major life and relationship changes, health challenges, and other emotion -laden events.
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Essentials of Thematic Analysis
By Gareth Terry, Nikki Hayfield
The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to qualitative methods, offering exciting opportunities to gather indepth qualitative data and to develop rich and useful findings. In this book, Gareth Terry and Nikki Hayfield introduce readers to reflexive thematic analysis, a method of analyzing interview and focus group transcripts, qualitative survey responses, and other qualitative data. Central to this method is the recognition that we are all situated in a context and see and speak from that position. This leads researchers to produce knowledge that represents situated truths which bring insight into other people's perspectives on a given topic.
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Essentials of Autoethnography
By Christopher N. Poulos
The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data. In This book, Christopher Poulos provides a step-by-step guide to writing autoethnography, illustrating its essential features and practices with excerpts from his own and others' work. Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze one's personal experience in various contexts, and thereby understand its cultural, social, and emotional meaning.
Qualitative Research from Start to Finish 2/e
By Robert K. Yin
This book will help readers understand the practice of qualitative research whether they want to do it, teach it, or just learn about it.
All the major research phases are encompassed (startup, design, data collection, analysis, and composing), including newly emerging trends. Numerous easy-to -read vignettes show how other scholars have successfully implemented specific procedures. Equally distinctively, the book presents qualitative research as an adaptive craft. The array of choices among different procedures and methods enables readers to customize their own studies and to accommodate different worldviews and genres.
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Structural Equation Modeling of Multiple Rater Data
By Michael Eid, Christian Geiser, Tobias Koch
The use of multiple raters can improve the validity of conclusions made on self- (and other) reports of emotions, attitudes, goals, and self-perceptions of personality. Yet analyzing these ratings requires special psychometric models that consider the specific nature of these data.
From leading authorities, this book offers the first comprehensive introduction to structural equation modeling (SEM) of multiple rater data. Rather than taking a one-size-fitsall approach, the book shows how the choice of a model should be guided by measurement, design and purpose.
Practical recommendations are provided for selecting suitable measurement designs, raters, and psychometric models. Models for different combinations of rater types and for crosssectional as well as longitudinal research designs are described step by step, with a strong emphasis on the substantive meaning of the latent variables in the models.
User-friendly features include:
• Equation boxes
• Application boxes
• A companion website with Mplus and lavaan code for the book’s examples.
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Categorical
Data Analysis with Structural Equation Models
Applications in Mplus and lavaan
By Kevin J. Grimm
Multivariate categorical outcomes, such as Likert scale responses and disease diagnoses, require specialized structural equation modeling (SEM) software to be analyzed properly.
Providing the skills needed for applied researchers and graduate students, this book leads readers from regression analysis with categorical outcomes to complex SEMs with latent variables for categorical indicators.
The initial section sets the stage by demonstrating regression analyses for binary, ordered, or count outcomes using R, with comparable SAS code. Chapters then reanalyze the same data using Mplus and R lavaan to show how univariate models for categorical outcomes can be estimated and interpreted with SEM programs.
Subsequently, the book turns to multivariate models, discussing path models, confirmatory factor models, and latent variable path models with categorical outcomes. Concluding chapters cover advanced SEM with categorical outcomes, including growth models, latent class models, and survival models. Worked -through examples and annotated Mplus and lavaan code are featured throughout.
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A Hands-on Introduction to Big Data Analytics
By Funmi Obembe, Ofer Engel
This practical textbook offers a hands-on introduction to big data analytics, helping you to develop the skills required to hit the ground running as a data professional. It complements theoretical foundations with an emphasis on the application of big data analytics, illustrated by real-life examples and datasets. Containing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics in this area, this book uses open -source technologies and examples in Python and Apache Spark. Learning features include: * Ethics by Design encourages you to consider data ethics at every stage, * Industry Insights facilitate a deeper understanding of the link between what you are studying and how it is applied in industry, * Datasets, questions, and exercises give you the opportunity to apply your learning.
Introduction to Mediation, Moderation, and Conditional Process Analysis 3/e
A Regression-Based Approach
By Andrew F. Hayes
Acclaimed for its thorough presentation of mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis, this book has been updated to reflect the latest developments in PROCESS for SPSS, SAS, and, new to this edition, R.Using the principles of ordinary least squares regression, Andrew F. Hayes illustrates each step in an analysis using diverse examples from published studies, and displays SPSS, SAS, and R code for each example. Procedures are outlined for estimating and interpreting direct, indirect, and conditional effects; probing and visualizing interactions; testing hypotheses about the moderation of mechanisms; and reporting different types of analyses. Readers gain an understanding of the link between statistics and causality, as well as what the data are telling them.
Machine Learning for Social and Behavioral Research
By Ross Jacobucci, Kevin J. Grimm
Today's social and behavioral researchers increasingly need to know: "What do I do with all this data?" This book provides the skills needed to analyze and report large, complex data sets using machine learning tools, and to understand published machine learning articles. Techniques are demonstrated using actual data (Big 5 Inventory, early childhood learning, and more), with a focus on the interplay of statistical algorithm, data, and theory. The identification of heterogeneity, measurement error, regularization, and decision trees are also emphasized. The book covers basic principles as well as a range of methods for analyzing univariate and multivariate data (factor analysis, structural equation models, and mixed-effects-models).
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The Theory and Practice of Item Response Theory 2/e
By R. J. de Ayala
Noted for addressing both the “how’s” and “whys” of item response theory (IRT), this text has been revised and updated with the latest techniques (multilevel models, mixed models, and more) and software packages. Simple to more complex models are covered in consistently formatted chapters that build sequentially.
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Communicating with Data Visualisation A Practical Guide
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling
By Adam Frost, Tobias Sturt
How can you transform a spreadsheet of numbers into a clear, compelling story that your audience will want to pass on? This book is a step-by-step guide (honing through the authors’ Guardian masterclasses, workshops and seminars) to bringing data to life through visualizations, from static charts and maps to interactive infographics and motion graphics. This book also includes a portfolio of best-practice examples and annotated templates to help you choose the right visual for the right audience and repurpose your work for different contexts.
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By Sarah Depaoli
This book offers researchers a systematic and accessible introduction to using a Bayesian framework in structural equation modeling (SEM). Stand-alone chapters on each SEM model clearly explain the Bayesian form of the model and walk the reader through implementation.
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QuasiExperimentation A Guide to Design and Analysis
By Charles S. Reichardt
Featuring engaging examples from diverse disciplines, this book explains how to use modern approaches to quasiexperimentation to derive credible estimates of treatment effects under the demanding constraints of field settings. Foremost expert Charles S. Reichardt provides an in-depth examination of the design and statistical analysis of pretest–posttest, nonequivalent groups, regression discontinuity, and interrupted time-series designs.
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AUD$: 120.00
How to Mix Methods
A Guide to Sequential, Convergent, and Experimental Research Designs
By Jen Katz-Buonincontro
This book shows researchers in education, psychology, health, and other social sciences how to mix qualitative and quantitative research methods together with confidence. Students and researchers will learn the essential design elements of all mixed methods of research, how to clearly distinguish between the different core mixed methods designs, how to figure out which design works best for their research, and more.
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The Mixed Methods Research Workbook
Activities for Designing, Implementing, and Publishing
Projects
A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research 2/e
By Michael D. Fetters
The Mixed Methods Research Workbook by Michael Fetters is the perfect tool for doctoral students and researchers who want support throughout their research project, as well as a practical way to apply the knowledge they have learned. With this text, students can tackle their mixed methods research project with confidence.
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AUD$: 167.00
By John W. Creswell
This text quickly describes the basics of setting up and conducting a study using this methodology. Chapters are short and follow the process of research, from ensuring skills for conducting research, acknowledging the steps in planning a study, designing studies with increasing complexity, planning sampling strategies and integration, and writing up the results of your study. Get started in mixed methods quickly with this brief primer.
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Release Date: January 2022
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168 pages
AUD$: 103.00
Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research 3/e
International Student Edition
By John W. Creswell, Vicki L. Plano Clark
Authors John W. Creswell and Vicki L. Plano Clark Walk readers through the entire research process, from formulating questions to designing, collecting data, and interpreting results and include updated examples from published mixed methods studies drawn from the social, behavioral, health, and education disciplines.
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Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology 4/e
By S. Alexander Haslam, Craig McGarty
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 book guides you through the range of choices and considerations involved in research design, data analysis and report presentation.
Statistical Literacy A Beginner's Guide
By Rhys Christopher Jones
In an increasingly data-centric world, we all need to know how to read and interpret statistics. But where do we begin? This book breaks statistical terms and concepts down in a clear, straightforward way. From understanding what data are telling you to exploring the value of good storytelling with numbers, it equips you with the information and skills you need to become statistically literate. Approachable and down to earth, this guide is aimed at undergraduates across the social sciences, psychology, business and beyond who want to engage confidently with quantitative methods or statistics.
Discovering
Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics 6/e
By Andy Field
With its unique combination of humor and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistical lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Andy Field animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities.
Features:
• Flexible coverage to support students across disciplines and degree programs,
• Can support classroom or lab learning and assessment,
• Analysis of real data with opportunities to practice statistical skills,
• Highlights common misconceptions and errors,
• A revamped online resource that uses video, case studies, datasets, test banks and more to help students negotiate project work, master data management techniques, and apply key writing and employability skills,
• Covers the range of versions of IBM SPSS Statistics.
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Applied Statistics Business and Management Research
By Andrew R. Timming
Written for the non-mathematician and free of unexplained technical jargon, Applied Statistics: Business and Management Research provides a user-friendly introduction to the field of applied statistics and data analysis. Featuring step-by-step explanations of how to carry out successful quantitative research and supported by examples from IBM ® SPSS ® Statistics, this textbook is an essential resource for students and researchers of business and management.
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9781473947450 AUD$: 153.00
Discovering Statistics Using JASP
An Adventure in Statistics 2/e The Reality Enigma
By Andy Field, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Unlock the world of statistics with Discovering Statistics using JASP, a comprehensive guide that brings the power of JASP software into the classroom. Building on the legacy of the acclaimed DSUSS series, this book distills complex statistical concepts into engaging, step-by-step content designed for undergraduate courses.
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By Andy Field
Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2017 Shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2016 Shortlisted for the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers Award for Innovation in Publishing 2016. Now in its second edition, An Adventure in Statistics: The Reality Enigma by best-selling author and awardwinning teacher Andy Field offers a better way to learn statistics.
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AUD$: 133.00
Catch Up Maths & Stats 2/e For the Life
and Medical Sciences
By Michael Harris, Gordon Taylor
Many students now begin life and medical science degrees with far less mathematical knowledge than they need - and they struggle as a result. This second edition also now provides further coverage of differentiation and integration alongside nearly 70 more questions and answers to help you test your understanding.
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48.99
Researching Information Systems and Computing 3/e
By Briony J Oates, Marie Griffiths, Rachel McLean
Written specifically for information systems (IS) and computing students, this accessible textbook includes everything you need to know about executing a research project.
It is packed with practical advice and actionable suggestions, makes sense of underlying philosophies and introduces key quantitative and qualitative research methods.
The updated 3rd edition:
• Includes new content on the role of AI in research, including the use of AI in literature reviews,
• Highlights potential research topics related to online environments, emerging web technologies, and the role of digital infrastructures,
• Examine how digital tools and platforms can be leveraged within research methodologies to advance knowledge.
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Introducing Research Methodology 4/e
Thinking Your Way Through Your Research Project
By Uwe Flick
New to research? This book helps you understand, think about, and interpret each stage of the research process before you dive in.
Holistic coverage helps you ‘think through’ each step, from formulating questions and selecting methods to collecting data and analyzing results.
With new content on the ethics of digital research, online interviews, and data protection, you will also find:
• 10 new Student Research Spotlights that demonstrate how you can foster a reflexive mindset,
• A strong emphasis on social justice, including principles for culturally responsive research and methodologies that challenge colonial perspectives,
• 34 case studies of real-world research that apply theory to global contexts, from Portugal to Germany to Canada.
This new edition is essential for any undergraduate or postgraduate student looking to conduct social research with confidence and capability.
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The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project 5/e
By Zina O'Leary, Emma Tennent
Doing a research project or dissertation can be daunting. This practical book will help you dive straight in, driving each step of the process with confidence.
Packed with features to support your learning, this guidebook gives you invaluable advice at each stage, from picking a topic, designing your study and navigating ethics to collecting and analyzing data then sharing your findings.
This fifth edition:
• Empowers you to be critical and self-reflective when consuming and doing research, with 19 critical thinking challenges,
• Equips you with the skills to make good decisions, prepare effectively, and take charge of your own project,
• Draws on case studies of real-world research to inspire your creativity and curiosity.
This popular, down-to -earth guide is a must-have for undergraduate and postgraduate students embarking on research projects across the social sciences.
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How to Study Social Life
By Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham
Do you want to study what people do, the things they say, or what they think?
This book offers a lively and questioning account of the essential elements of social research, from defining your research purpose to producing the right output for your audience.
Fostering inquisitiveness and ingenuity and drawing on lots of examples and experiences, it will inspire you to think afresh about the various things you might do as a social researcher.
It will also:
• Reveal the lived realities of research, sharing honest and illuminating stories along the way,
• Draw on plenty of past exercises with students to consider how different activities work,
• Demystify the process so you can think for yourself about how to do effective projects.
Original, engaging and candid, this book will help any undergraduate or postgraduate navigate the dynamic and challenging landscape of social research with confidence and creativity.
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Researching Society and Culture 5/e
By Clive Seale, Carol Rivas
Just starting out with social research? With contributions from experts across the social sciences, this book equips you with the tools for successfully investigating society and culture. It shows you how to prepare for research, generate and analyze data, and present your findings. Balancing theory with practice, it covers foundational concepts in methods and methodology alongside contemporary developments.
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How to Do Your Literature Review
By Gary Thomas
This book will walk you through every step of crafting an excellent literature review. It will show you where to find sources, how to assess their quality, and how to combine and integrate these sources into the best possible literature review. From scoping the field to searching the literature to synthesizing your findings, this book hits all the spots. For tutors, each chapter is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation that will map onto a 10- or 11-week module. Written in Gary’s signature easy-to-read style, this book is an essential companion for anyone conducting a literature review in the applied social sciences.
Completing Your Research Project A Guide for the Social Sciences
By Charlotte Brookfield, Jamie Lewis
Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is your essential companion for successfully completing any research project in the social sciences. It covers the entire research process, from initial planning to final write-up.
This guide will help you:
• Plan your research project effectively
• Develop robust data collection tools
• Analyze and interpret data with confidence
• Present your research in compelling formats
Featuring clear chapter objectives, handy checklists, practical student exercises, valuable weblinks, and suggestions for further reading, this comprehensive guide ensures you navigate the complexities of research within a manageable, step -by-step framework.
85.99
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
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242 X 170 mm
304 Pages
Rel Date: April 2025
9781529617092
AUD$: 83.99
Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) A Primer for Clinical Use
By Kenneth L. Critchfield PhD, Lorna Smith Benjamin
Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) can help identify connections between clients’ current symptoms, and their current and historical relationship patterns. The SASB coding system serves as the basis for case formulation, which in turn informs the choice of interventions used in a variety of therapeutic approaches.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: September 2024
9781433837913
Paperback
280 pages
AUD$: 145.00
Computerized Adaptive Testing From Concept to Implementation
Research
Design
International Student Edition 6/e
Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
By David J. Weiss, Alper Sahin
Used worldwide in assessment and professional certification contexts, computerized adaptive testing (CAT) offers a powerful means to measure individual differences or make classifications. This authoritative work from CAT pioneer David J. Weiss and Alper Şahin provides a complete how-to guide for planning and implementing an effective CAT to create a test unique to each person in real time.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
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254 X 178 mm
Release Date: September 2024
9781462554515
Hardback
378 pages
AUD$: 171.00
By John W. Creswell, J. David Creswell
The new edition of the best-selling text, Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, continues the pioneering tradition of providing clear and concise instruction for understanding research and developing proposals for all three approaches. The book has been lauded for its language and tone, which are both accessible and inviting.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
231 X 187 mm
Release Date: April 2023
9781071870631
Paperback
320 pages
AUD$: 233.00
Constructing Research Questions Doing Interesting Research
By Mats Alvesson, Jorgen Sandberg
A key step for researchers wanting to produce interesting and influential theory development is formulating innovative research questions. In this text, Alvesson and Sandberg have developed a problematization methodology for identifying and challenging the assumptions underlying existing knowledge, and for generating research questions that can lead to more impactful theories.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
242 X 170 mm
Release Date: April 2024
9781529629132
Paperback
160 pages
AUD$: 109.00
Inclusive Ethnography
Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical
By Caitlin Procter, Branwen Spector
How can you do ethnographic field research in a safe way for you and the people you work with? In this nuanced, candid book, researchers from across the globe discuss core challenges faced by ethnographers, reflecting on research from preparation to dissemination and how identity interacts with the realities of doing fieldwork.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
242 X 170 mm
Release Date: April 2024
9781529620023
Paperback
232 pages
AUD$: 111.00
Applied Social Research A Tool for Social Work and the Human Services
Qualitative Research Methods 2/e
By Timothy P. Hilton, Peter R. Fawson
Discover the practical side of research in human services with this easy-to-follow classic. Designed for students and professionals in social work, public administration, nursing, criminal justice, and other human services fields, this text breaks down complex concepts into accessible, real-world applications.
SPRINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY
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254 X 117 mm
Paperback
Release Date: May 2024 615 pages 9780826163554
245.00
By Monique Hennink, Inge Hutter
Practical and straightforward, this book is a multidisciplinary introduction to the process of planning, conducting and analyzing qualitative research, from selecting appropriate methods to publishing your findings. Built around the authors’ Qualitative Research Cycle - consisting of the design, data collection and analytic cycles - this pragmatic guide clearly demonstrates the steps you need to take to ensure your research is rigorous and robust.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
246 X 184 mm
Release Date: February 2020
9781473903913
Paperback
376 pages
131.00
Research Design 6/e
Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches
By Patricia Leavy
This step-by-step guide explores the five major approaches to research design, enhanced with a new chapter on literature reviews and a companion website featuring chapter-specific worksheets. Each approach includes a research proposal template, detailing how to conceptualize and complete each section.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: February 2023
Paperback
318 pages
109.00
The Evaluation Handbook
An Evaluator's Companion
By Debra Rog, Leonard Bickman
This pragmatic evaluator’s companion from leaders in the field provides essential guidance for designing, implementing, and managing exemplary evaluations using established and emerging methods, designs, and analyses.
With contributions from skilled experts, the Handbook has a unique focus on the competencies identified by the American Evaluation Association as critical for evaluators.
Balancing rigor with practical, mentor-style guidance, chapters build the reader’s skills for tailoring studies creatively to address specific evaluation situations and contexts; optimizing communication and collaborative decision making; and centering equity and justice.
This insider’s guide is replete with detailed examples, real-world scenarios, and other helpful features, including chapter overviews and an end-of-book glossary.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
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Release Date: August 2025
9781462537341
Hardback
758 pages
AUD$: 227.00
Evaluation Essentials 3/e
From A to Z
By Marvin C. Alkin, Anne T. Vo, Christina A. Christie
Beloved for its conversational style and reliable advice, this text is now in a revised and updated third edition, reflecting key developments in evaluation. It includes expanded coverage of equity and social justice issues, values and cost analysis, visualizing qualitative data with software, and more. Twenty-six concise chapters, or “sessions,” give students, applied researchers, and program administrators a solid foundation for conducting or using evaluations.
Covering both quantitative and qualitative methods, the book emphasizes fostering evaluation use. It shows how to build collaborative relationships with users; formulate answerable evaluation questions; deal with contingencies that might alter the traditional sequence of an evaluation; and collect, analyze, and report data. Student-friendly features throughout the sessions include titles written as questions, bulleted recaps, “Thinking Ahead” and “Next Steps” pointers, cautionary notes, and annotated suggestions for further reading.
New to This Edition:
• New sessions on context-sensitive evaluation, including the organizational, sociopolitical, and community contexts of a program,
• New or expanded discussions of timely topics: identifying evaluation decision makers, analyzing program costs, coding and visualizing qualitative data with software, and more,
• Updated suggestions for further reading and discussion in every chapter.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
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229 X 152 mm
Release Date: January 2025
9781462555437
Paperback
346 pages
121.00
Program Evaluation Theory and Practice 3/e
A Comprehensive Guide
By Donna M. Mertens, Amy T. Wilson
Covering both the theory and practice of evaluation in one engaging volume, this leading text is now in a revised third edition. It features additional evaluation approaches, such as the Indigenous paradigm; new examples, ranging from small to large and multi-site evaluations; and more.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: April 2025
9781462555901
Paperback
611 pages
AUD$: 192.00
Being an Evaluator
Your Practical Guide to Evaluation
Evaluating and Valuing in Social Research
By Donna R. Podems
Demystifying the evaluation journey, this is the first evaluation mentoring book that addresses the choices, roles, and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Experienced evaluator and trainer Donna R. Podems covers both conceptual and technical aspects of practice in a friendly, conversational style. She focuses not just on how to do evaluations but how to think like an evaluator, fostering reflective, ethical, and culturally sensitive practice.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
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235 X 187 mm
Release Date: January 2019
9781462537808
Paperback
368 pages
AUD$: 112.00
By Thomas A. Schwandt, Emily F. Gates
Much applied research takes place as if complex social problems–and evaluations of interventions to address them–can be dealt with in a purely technical way. The authors offer practical and conceptual guidance to help researchers engage meaningfully with value conflicts and refine their capacity to engage in deliberative argumentation.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
234 X 156 mm
Release Date: November 2021
9781462547326
Paperback
242 pages
AUD$: 97.99
Principles-Focused Evaluation
The GUIDE
By Michael Quinn Patton
How can programs and organizations ensure they are adhering to core principles–and assess whether doing so is yielding desired results? From evaluation pioneer Michael Quinn Patton, this book introduces the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and demonstrates its relevance and application in a range of settings. User-friendly features include rubrics, a P-FE checklist, firsthand reflections and examples from experienced P-FE practitioners, sidebars and summary tables, and end-ofchapter application exercises.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: November 2017
9781462531820
Paperback
435 pages
AUD$: 126.00
Analyzing Social Networks
By Stephen P Borgatti, Martin G. Everett
Kickstart your research with this practical bestselling guide to doing social network analysis. Get to grips with the mathematical foundations and learn how to use software tools such as NeTDraw and UNICET to reach your research goals. Supporting you step-by-step through the entire research process, from design and data collection to coding, visualization, and analysis, the book also offers:
• Case studies and examples using real data
• Exercises drawn from the authors’ decades of teaching experience
• Online access to datasets, examples and a software manual to help you practice your skills.
Dissertations and Theses From Start to Finish 3/e
Psychology and Related Fields
By Debora Bell, Sharon L. Foster
This fully-updated third edition includes guiding questions, checklists, diagrams, and sample research papers. It also reflects the most recent advances in online research and includes fully updated online resources. Each chapter begins with an Advance Organizer that offers an at-a-glance summary of chapter content and applicability for different types of readers. Chapters also include significantly expanded “To Do” and “Supplemental Resource” lists, as well as helpful suggestions for dealing with impasses and common internal and external “traps” that recur throughout the writing process. The authors also provide a thoughtful consideration of the variety of roles faculty advisors play, and of variations in the thesis and dissertation process and requirements across institutions of higher learning.
Writing the Literature Review A Practical Guide
By Sara Efrat Efron, Ruth Ravid
This accessible text provides a roadmap for producing a high-quality literature review an integral part of a successful thesis, dissertation, term paper, or grant proposal. Each step of searching for, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing prior studies is clearly explained and accompanied by user-friendly suggestions, organizational tips, vignettes, and examples of student work. Also featured are excerpts from peerreviewed quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods articles. This is the first book to focus on crafting different types of reviews (systematic, traditional–narrative, or hermeneutic–phenomenological) that reflect the writer’s research question, methodological choices, and approaches to knowledge.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
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246 X 189 mm
360 Pages
Rel Date: February 2024
9781529609158
AUD$: 120.00
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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Paperback
254 X 178 mm
386 Pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
Rel Date: December 2019
9781433830648
AUD$: 84.99
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
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Paperback
254 X 178 mm
298 Pages
Rel Date: January 2019
9781462536894
AUD$: 85.99
How to Write a Lot A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
By Paul J. Silvia
In this second edition of his popular guidebook, Paul Silvia offers fresh advice to help you overcome barriers to writing and use your time more productively. After addressing some common excuses and bad habits, he provides practical strategies to motivate students, professors, researchers, and other academics to become better and more prolific writers.
APA LIFETOOLS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
203 X 127 mm
Release Date: November 2018
9781433829734
Paperback
110 pages
AUD$: 44.99
Concise Guide to APA Style 7/e
Publication Manual (OFFICIAL) of the American Psychological Association 7/e
By American Psychological Association
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition, is the official guide to APA Style. A trusted resource for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators across diverse fields, including the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, and more.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: December 2019
9781433832161
By American Psychological Association
Written for high school and undergraduate students, instructors, and writers learning APA Style, this easy-to -use pocket guide is adapted from the seventh edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. It provides complete guidance for new writers on effective, clear, and inclusive scholarly communication and the essentials of formatting papers and other course assignments.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
216 X 133 mm
Release Date: August 2020
9781433832734
Spiral bound
326 pages
AUD$: 76.99
Paperback
428 pages
AUD$: 76.99
Conducting Your Literature Review
By Susanne Hempel
This book provides a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, including tips for adapting the process to your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons are applicable to writing the background section for a thesis or original research publication Literature reviews are more challenging than ever. You need a structured approach to handle the vast amount of published research.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
229 X 152 mm
145 pages
Release Date: January 2020 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781433830921
AUD$: 86.99
Essentials of Critical Participatory Action Research
By Michelle Fine, Maria Elena Torre
The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to qualitative methods, offering exciting opportunities to gather indepth qualitative data and to develop rich and useful findings. In this book, Michelle Fine and Maria Elena Torre introduce critical participatory action research, an approach that reveals the everyday stories of struggle and survival of the people being studied, combats social injustice, and leverages social science research for action. Critical participatory action research challenges the narrow ways in which research has traditionally been conducted and elevates the voices and perspectives of formerly marginalized groups.
Action Research in Education 2/e
A Practical Guide
By Sara Efrat Efron, Ruth Ravid
Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this userfriendly resource has now been revised and updated and offers expanded coverage of collaborative action research (CAR) and participatory action research (PAR). Preservice and Inservice educators get crucial step-by-step guidance for conducting classroom- and schoolbased studies to improve their instructional practices. Organized to mirror the full cycle of action research, the book provides balanced coverage of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. Vivid vignettes and examples illustrate research approaches for a range of teaching and learning situations, school subjects, and age groups (PreK-12). Readers learn how research approaches are driven by the research question, as well as how to develop data collection strategies; design and/or evaluate assessment tools; interpret, analyze, report, and implement study results; and design a new cycle of research that builds on the previous one.
Action Research
All You Need to Know
By Jean McNiff
This book gives you all you need to know about action research, why you need to know it and how it can help you become a self-reflective practitioner-researcher. It provides the ideas and frameworks to understand action research, combined with a practical workbook to guide you through the practicalities and complexities of doing action research in your own context. Accessible and insightful, this is the complete start to finish guide to doing influential action research. It is the ideal companion for students and researcher-practitioners in any research setting, from education and health to business.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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229 X 152 mm
86 Pages
Rel Date: November 2021
9781433834615 AUD$: 60.99
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
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235 X 187 mm
276 Pages
Rel Date: February 2020
9781462541614
AUD$: 110.00
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT Paperback
242 X 170 mm
288 Pages
Rel Date: April 2017
9781473967472
AUD$: 114.00
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