An encyclopedic introduction to research, showing students how to think about every stage of their project and equipping them with the tools they need to understand different research processes.

This Handbook offers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries.

Teaching students the basics of communication research in an accessible manner, this fourth edition demystifies the theories and applications through its focus on methods in practice.

In a joyful journey through a year of wonderful words, one of the nation's favourite wordsmiths takes a tour of the English language and all its idiosyncrasies, in a delightful book for anyone who loves language - whether following its rules or breaking them!

This concise and practical guide explores the use of template analysis as a method for conducting research for your business and management Masters dissertation.

How do we know what works in primary schools? The answer lies in research. In understanding, conducting, disseminating and learning from research. This book is your guide to research in primary education.

This text provides a concrete set of tools to research and analyse a wide range of visual data, showing students how to apply the right mix of methods to their own research projects and equipping them with the skills to break down and analyse contemporary visual communication.

This Second Edition provides a clear roadmap to the complexity of action research whilst explaining how action research is defined, its traditions and history, and the rationale for using it.

As an introduction to the basic principles of research theory and practice, this book is the ideal starter text for any counselling trainee or practitioner learning about the research process for the very first time.