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, visualisation, 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, worked examples and a software manual to help you practice your skills. Whether you are new to social network analysis or an experienced researcher, this approachable book is your technical toolbox and research companion all in one.
Dissertations and Theses From Start to Finish Psychology and Related Fields
By Debora Bell, Sharon L. Foster
A guide student writer through the practical, logistical, and emotional struggles that come with writing dissertations and theses. It offers guidance to students through all the essential steps, including: Defining topics Selecting faculty advisors Scheduling time to work on the project, and Conducting, analyzing, writing, presenting, and publishing research Like previous editions, 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.
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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 writers research question, methodological choices, and approaches to knowledge. It describes what all reviews have in common and highlights distinct characteristics of each type.
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How to Write a Lot
A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
By Paul J. Silvia
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.
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By American Psychological Association
Designed specifically for undergraduate writing, 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.
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The style manual of choice for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and other fields. Known for its authoritative, easyto-use reference and citation system, offering guidance on publication decisions that will result in powerful, concise, and elegant scholarly communication.
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Conducting Your Literature Review
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This book is a step-by-step guide to writing a literature review, and includes tips for modifying the process as needed depending on your audience, purpose, and goals. The lessons in this book can be applied to writing the background section for a thesis or an original research publication.
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Essentials of Critical Participatory Action Research
By Michelle Fine, Maria Elena Torre
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 persons being studied, combats social injustice, and leverages social science research for action. Critical participatory action research challenges the traditional and narrow ways in which research has been conducted and elevates the voices and perspectives of formerly marginalized groups. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations.
Action Research in Education 2/e A Practical Guide
By Sara Efrat Efron, Ruth Ravid
Acclaimed as a text and professional development tool, this user-friendly 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.
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. Inside you will find: An action plan to help you embark on your project, guidance and advice on learning to ask the right questions as you progress, a full resource on writing up and communicating your results, inspiration to explain the significance of what you have achieved, so that other people can learn with and from you. Accessible and insightful, this is the complete start to finish guide to doing influential action research.
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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.
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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.
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By Thomas A. Schwandt, Emily F. Gates
This groundbreaking book offers an alternative approach that incorporates sustained, systematic reflection about researchers' values, what values research promotes, how decisions about what to value are made and by whom, and how judging the value of social interventions takes place.
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Principles-Focused Evaluation
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By Michael Quinn Patton
This book introduces the principles-focused evaluation (P-FE) approach and demonstrates its relevance and application in a range of settings. Patton explains why principles matter for program development and evaluation and how they can serve as a rudder to navigate the uncertainties, turbulence, and emergent challenges of complex dynamic environments.
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Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
By Jenine Beekhuyzen, Pat Bazeley
Looking to use NVivo in your qualitative research? With easy-to-use 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. But this is more than just a 'how to' software manual. Each chapter offers rich, methodological discussions that interweave qualitative thinking with technology, enabling you to develop a sophisticated research practice. Starting with how to navigate the software before moving on to different types of data you might use - such as text, images, and social media data - and how to code and visualise that data, each chapter helps you develop your skill in using NVivo to support effective qualitative analysis.
Constructing Grounded Theory
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-to-earth book guides you through all the steps you need to do grounded theory research. This revised third edition: showcases 9 new case studies of grounded theory research in action from scholars across the globe, including Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States, enables you to see at a glance, how each chapter will develop your understanding with new learning objectives, and supports you to expand your knowledge with new further reading suggestions in every chapter. Retaining Kathy Charmaz's characteristic warm and accessible style, this book is essential reading for anyone - undergraduate, postgraduate or researcher
Handbook of Arts-Based Research 2/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. Chapters are written by leading practitioners of each ABR genre, including those based in literature (such as narrative inquiry, fiction, and poetry); performance (music, dance, ethnodrama); visual arts (drawing, painting, collage, installation art, comics); and audiovisual and multimethod approaches. Team approaches, ethics, social justice concerns, and public scholarship are discussed, as are innovative ways that ABR is used within creative arts therapies, psychology, education, sociology, health sciences, and other disciplines.
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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 means 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. Suitable for Undergraduate students who are new to qualitative research.
Doing Qualitative Research 6/e
By David Silverman
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 summarise, categorise, 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?' It also includes articles and websites to build your bibliography, questions to test your knowledge and videos from worldleading qualitative experts
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 analysing 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, and coverage of new developments in qualitative research including working with online data. If you are new to qualitative research or conducting your first research project in the social sciences, this book gives you the practical grounding in qualitative methods you need to get started.
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Qualitative Research Methods for Business Students A
Global Approach
By Kingsley Obi Omeihe, Christian Harrison
The textbook will empower you with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the dynamic landscape of qualitative research. Suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in using qualitative methods in their research project or dissertation.
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Researching Digital Media and Society
Researching Digital Life Orientations, Methods and Practice
By Simon Lindgren, Moa Eriksson Krutrak
This book will help you to understand why researchers in this field choose and use particular research methods, equipping you to put these methods into practice across the whole range of undergraduate media courses. This book shows you how research methods can help us to make sense of the myriads of information we encounter online every day.
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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.
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Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research
By Patricia Leavy
Award-winning author Patricia Leavy covers everything from how to develop a unique writer's voice to how to craft a successful book proposal, understand a publishing contract, establish relationships with editors, and much more. The book is filled with effective tools for using data and theory in different genres of writing, building a profile as a scholar
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An Introduction to Qualitative Research 7/e
By Uwe Flick
A new edition of THE guide to the full qualitative research process, featuring international case studies to help you situate your research in the global context.
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The How To of Qualitative Research 2/e
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 to 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.
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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 designed to investigate people's lived experience and how they make sense of it 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, or 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 distinctive, 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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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. The text encourages you to consider data ethics at every stage – featuring industry insights to facilitate a deeper understanding of the link between what you are studying and how it is applied in industry.
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 analysing univariate and multivariate data (factor analysis, structural equation models, and mixed-effects-models). Analysis of text and social network data is also addressed.
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The Theory and Practice of Item Response Theory 2/e
By R. J. de Ayala
Noted for addressing both the "hows" 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. The book takes the reader from model development through the fit analysis and interpretation phases that would be performed in practice. To facilitate understanding, common datasets are used across chapters, with the examples worked through for increasingly complex models.
Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling
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. Engaging worked-through examples from diverse social science subfields illustrate the various modeling techniques, highlighting statistical or estimation problems that are likely to arise and describing potential solutions. For each model, instructions are provided for writing up findings for publication, including annotated sample data analysis plans and results sections. Other user-friendly features in every chapter include "Major Take-Home Points," notation glossaries, annotated suggestions for further reading, and excerpts of annotated code in both Mplus and R.
Quasi-Experimentation
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 quasi-experimentation 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, non-equivalent groups, regression discontinuity, and interrupted time-series designs. He details their relative strengths and weaknesses and offers practical advice about their use. Comparing quasi-experiments to randomised experiments, Reichardt discusses when and why the former might be a better choice than the latter in the face of the contingencies that are likely to arise in practice.
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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. It walks readers through the essential steps to avoid some common mistakes and to clarify confusing parts of common method designs.
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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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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.
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Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research 3/e
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, behavioural, health, and education disciplines.
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Introducing Research Methodology
Thinking Your Way Through Your Research Project
By Uwe Flick
This book helps you understand, think about and interpret each stage of the research process before you dive in. The holistic coverage helps you 'think through' each step, from formulating questions, to selecting methods, collecting data and analysing results. With new ethics of digital research, online interviews and data protection, there is also new student research spotlights demonstrating how you can foster a reflexive mindset, strong emphasis on social justice evident in the inclusion of principles for culturally responsive research and methodologies that challenge colonial perspectives, and 34 cast studies throughout of real-world research that applies theory to global contexts
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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 analysing 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 and more.
How
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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
This text shows you how to prepare for research, generate and analyse data, and present your findings. Balancing theory with practice, it covers foundational concepts in methods alongside contemporary developments. Additionally, all chapters have been fully rewritten for this 5th edition, in a friendly and accessible style, also offering additional chapters on participatory research, multiple real-world case studies and celebrates the dynamic, reflexive nature of research as engagement with the world.
How to Do Your Literature Review
By Gary Thomas
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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 synthesising your findings, this book hits all the spots. Presenting a clear and detailed roadmap to ensure you don't miss a step, the book includes: advice on the best ways to scan and search the literature, all the latest information and advice on using AI tools for searching literature, case studies and real-life examples from a range of disciplines so you can learn from other researchers who have been in your shoes, DIY activities so you can practice your skills and get to grips with key concepts, guidance on how to analyse and synthesise the findings from your literature searches and more. SAGE
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Completing Your Research Project A Guide for the Social Sciences
By Charlotte Brookfield, Jamie Lewis
Simple. Comprehensive. Logical. This book is a companion guide for anyone completing a research project in the social sciences. It covers ‘the whole research process, from planning, developing, collecting data, analysing data, and writing up. It will help you manage and complete your research project successfully. It will guide you on planning your research project, developing data collection tools, analysing and interpreting data, and presenting your research in different formats. It features chapter objectives, checklists, student exercises, weblinks, and further reading, making this a comprehensive guide enabling readers to navigate the complexities of research within a manageable step-by-step framework.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Disc: TEXT Paperback
242 X 170 mm
304 Pages
Rel Date: April 2025
9781529617092
AUD$: 75.99
Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) A Primer for Clinical Use
By Kenneth L. Critchfield PhD, Lorna Smith Benjamin
Helps clinicians and researchers make objective assessments of relationship patterns, and enables clients to improve their social interactions. SASB can help identify connections between clients' current symptoms, and their current and historical relationship patterns.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
229 X 152 mm
280 pages
Release Date: September 2024 Paperback
9781433837913
AUD$: 145.00
Computerized Adaptive Testing From Concept to Implementation
Research Design 6/e
International Student Edition
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 Sahin 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
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: September 2024
378 pages
171.00
By John W. Creswell, J. David Creswell
John W. Creswell and co-author J. David Creswell include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research approaches, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry in a way that is applicable to all types of research.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
231 X 187 mm
320 pages
Release Date: April 2023 Paperback
9781071870631
AUD$: 130.00
Constructing Research Questions 2/e 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
160 pages
Release Date: July 2024 Paperback
93.99
Inclusive Ethnography Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical
By Caitlin Procter, Branwen Spector
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 LTD
Disc: TEXT
242 X 170 mm
Release Date: July 2024
9781529620023
232 pages
96.99
Applied Social Research 11/e
A Tool for Social Work and the Human Services
Qualitative Research Methods 2/e
By Timothy P. Hilton, Peter R. Fawson
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. Follow along with easy-toread language and engaging examples to uncover nonintimidating, practical tools for everyday problem-solving.
SPRINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
254 X 117 mm 615 pages
Release Date: May 2024
245.00
By Monique Hennink, Inge Hutter
Practical and straightforward, this book is a multidisciplinary introduction to the process of planning, conducting and analysing qualitative research, from selecting appropriate methods to publishing your findings.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
246 X 184 mm
376 pages
Release Date: April 2020 Paperback 9781473903913
115.00
Research Design 2/e
Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches
By Patricia Leavy
With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a thoroughly revised second edition. For each approach, the text presents a template for a research proposal and explains how to conceptualize and fill in every section.
GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
254 X 178 mm 318 pages
Release Date: February 2023 NOT ILLUSTRATED
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. In particular, this book guides you through the range of choices and considerations involved in research design, data analysis and report presentation. Your learning is supported by a range of features, both in the book and online. These include: research bites, test yourself questions, exercises, a glossary to help you with key terms, research evaluation and improvement checklists and more.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Authors are from Australia
Disc: TEXT Paperback
246 X 189 mm
600 Pages NOT ILLUSTRATED
Rel Date: July 2024
9781529793666
AUD$: 122.00
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 is 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. It also dispels misconceptions about the nature of statistics to help you avoid common traps, helps you put your learning into practice with over 60 tasks and activities to develop your skills All whilst drawing on real-world research to demonstrate the messiness of data but also show you a path through it.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Disc: TEXT
Paperback
242 X 170 mm
248 Pages
Rel Date: July 2024
9781529754797 AUD$: 83.99
Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics 6/e
By Andy Field
With its unique combination of humour and step-by-step instruction, this award-winning book is the statistics lifesaver for everyone. From initial theory through to regression, factor analysis and multilevel modelling, Andy Field animates statistics and SPSS software with his famously bizarre examples and activities. Features: flexible coverage to support students across disciplines and degree programmes, support for classroom or lab learning and assessment, analysis of real data with opportunities to practice statistical skills, common misconceptions and errors, a revamped online resource that uses video, case studies, datasets, testbanks and more to help students negotiate project work, master data management techniques, and apply key writing and employability skills.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
Paperback
265 X 195 mm
1144 Pages
Rel Date: May 2024
9781529630008
AUD$: 143.00
Applied Statistics Business and Management Research
By Andrew R. Timming
Written for the non-mathematician and free of unexplained technical jargon it provides a user-friendly introduction to the field of applied statistics and data analysis. Featuring step-bystep explanations of how to carry out successful quantitative research, and supported by examples, this textbook is an essential resource for students and researchers of business and management.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Disc: TEXT
246 X 189 mm
456 pages
Release Date: August 2022 Paperback
9781473947450
133.00
Discovering Statistics Using JASP
An Adventure in Statistics 2/e The Reality Enigma
By Andy Field, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
Building on the legacy of the acclaimed DSUSS series, this book distils complex statistical concepts into engaging, step-by-step content designed for undergraduate courses. Students will gain practical skills in data analysis without needing to learn coding, thanks to JASP's intuitive point-and-click interface.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Disc: TEXT
265 X 195 mm
784 pages
Release Date: July 2025 Paperback
9781529691436
By Andy Field
It combines rock-solid statistics coverage with compelling visual storytelling to address the conceptual difficulties that students learning statistics for the first time often encounter in introductory courses. Students are guided away from rote memorization towards independent, critical thinking and problem solving.
SAGE PUBLICATIONS
Disc: TEXT
265 X 195 mm
664 pages
Release Date: July 2022 Paperback
9781529797138
117.00
Catch Up Maths & Stats 2/e
For the Life and Medical Sciences
By Michael Harris, Gordon Taylor
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. It will bring you up to speed in the shortest possible time, even if you didn't study maths at advanced level.
SCION PUBLISHING LTD
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
234 X 156 mm
128.00
240 pages
Release Date: July 2013 Paperback
48.99
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