Introducing students to the research process in a range of educational contexts, this updated Second Edition contains everything they need if they are studying on a research methods course or doing a research project for themselves.

Examining what it takes to be a competent and confident CBT supervisor and using the authors' unique framework of learning - the PURE Supervision Flower - this book equips trainees with the skills and competencies needed to Prepare for, Undertake, Refine and Enhance supervision practice across a wide range of settings.

Contemporary and forward looking, The SAGE Handbook of Marketing Theory provides conceptual cohesion by drawing together a wide range of perspectives in one volume.

Drawing on the research and data from the Stockholm Life-Course Project, this exciting new text covers the key theories and methodologies in the field to provide readers with an authoritative guide

Fully-updated in line with the new National Curriculum and Teachers' Standards, this Second Edition provides a coherent overview of teaching and learning languages, combining practical strategies for use in the classroom informed by theory and research.

Critical, broad and extensively researched, Understanding New Media remains the essential guide to the new media world, with expanded coverage of key topics, including digital participation, extreme pornography and online radicalization and engaging case studies on topics such as selfies, trolling and gaming addiction.

The author has been involved in a dispute with his employer, Lancaster University, about what he sees as irregularities in the REF process. In this title, he criticizes the REF for discouraging innovation and harming staff morale, and questions the REF's claim to provide 'expert review of the outputs' - the very heart of its legitimacy.

Tackling the questions raised by twenty-first century urbanization, this handbook engages with contemporary debates and contributions to policy as well as looking at recent empirical and methodological shifts in the area

There is a war on for the future of the university worldwide. The stakes are high, and they reach deep into our social condition. This book analyses the position, and argues for the necessity of taking sides with the latter. It does so with a sense of urgency, because the market fundamentalists are on the march.