Delving into the real issues of policing, and fully updated to cover recent changes in the field, this is the introduction to your Police Studies course.

Whether students are working with qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods approaches, this book demonstrates how good research is about asking and answering good questions—and guides readers new to methods in how to understand, structure, and successfully explore those questions.Â

Enabling teachers and educators to make education and educational spaces inclusive of LGBTQ+ lives.

This practical text for new teachers empowers them to develop their knowledge and understanding of teaching about climate change and sustainability.

A new book from a leading scholar in the field that examines gender and leadership today and explores practical steps organizations can take in order to level the playing field.

This provocative book discusses a new turn in mixed methods research: merged methods. Moving beyond the binary quantitative-qualitative distinction, it shows you how to integrate methods in social research.

This book builds your understanding so you can confidently consume research and conduct your own nursing or midwifery research project.

This book will guide trainee teachers through each step of the teaching training process, from initial stages of planning and research, through to how to analyse data and write up a research project.

With numerous approaches to choose from, knowing where to start when doing qualitative data analysis (QDA) can be a challenge. This book gives you direction with an accessible and thorough introduction to nine different approaches to QDA, written by a multi-disciplinary team with years of experience teaching and analysing data using these methods. With a clear focus on the ‘how to’ of QDA, each chapter includes: •Step-by-step descriptions of how to apply each approach in your resea...

A short, innovative book that outlines what we know about the declining state of social mobility in the UK and proposes what we should do to reverse this downward trajectory and make Britain a more mobile and just society.