A practical, step-by-step core research text that balances coverage of qualitative, quantitative and combined methods

Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research offers a truly balanced, inclusive, and integrated overview of the processes involved in educational research. This text first examines the general steps in the research process and then details the procedures for conducting specific types of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed me...

This book is the ultimate guide for digging deeper into issues of ownership, power, class, and (in)justice, equipping you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media’s relationship with society.

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Doing Research is a clear introduction to the methods and techniques required for research. It answers questions like: what does ‘doing research’ actually mean, how do you design a research project, what steps do you have to take, how do you collect data and what are the pitfalls?

Doing Research sheds light on the complicated process of research. It teaches you research skills one step at a time. It discus...

Parenting: A Dynamic Process explores the interaction between parents and children as they shape each other over time. George Holden and Amanda Harrist present the latest interdisciplinary research on parenting in an engaging and accessible matter.

While the subject of migration has received enormous attention in academic journals and books across the social sciences, introductory texts on the matter are few and far between. Even fewer books have explored migration through a critical and explicit engagement with spatial concepts. Now in its second edition, Migration remains the only text in more than a decade that emphasizes how geographical or spatial concepts can be used critically to understand migration.

The multi-disciplinary text ...

A step-by-step guide to social work practice; assessment, planning, intervention, and review

Comprehensive and engaging, this textbook introduces students not only to foundational sociological work, but also to insights from contemporary sociological theory and research. This combined approach ensures that students become familiar with the core of sociology: key concepts, theories, perspectives, methods, and findings. Students will acquire the ability to think like a sociologist, investigate and understand complex social phenomena.

This text presents a complete sociological toolkit, ...

An accessible and thought-provoking survey of this vast field. Emphasising the underlying concepts students need to understand and authored by world-renowned experts.

Straightforward and insightful, this is the go-to book for any qualitative researcher who wants to use NVivo to conduct robust data analysis.