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

This straightforward, student-friendly guide contains all the practical advice for successfully undertaking a research project, leading students through all the stages of the research process. The second edition of this no-nonsense textbook supports students in conducting their own research projects, whatever discipline they are from. Describing processes, tools and strategies in a simple, succinct way, it supports the reader carefully through the planning and design stages, to implementation...

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. The prior edition's user-friendly features are augmented by a new companion website with worksheets keyed to each chapter. For each approach, the text presents a template for a research proposal and explains how to conceptualize and fill in every section.

Interdisciplinary research examples draw on current events a...

Als meerdere professionals met uiteenlopende expertises in hetzelfde team samenwerken, noemen we dat interprofessioneel werken. Maar wat maakt interprofessionele teams nu succesvol en wat zijn juist belemmeringen voor interprofessionele samenwerking? Het boek Interprofessioneel werken en innoveren in teams draait om de vraag hoe interprofessionele teams zo optimaal mogelijk kunnen functioneren.

De focus in het boek ligt op vormen van dienstverlening binnen de jeugdsector, het sociaal werk, de...

In onze complexe samenleving worden sociaal werkers dagelijks geconfronteerd met ethisch-politieke dilemma’s en filosofische vraagstukken die hen dwingen een positie in te nemen. Kernwaarden als het bevorderen van menselijke waardigheid, zelfredzaamheid, eigen kracht en eigen regie vormen daarbij het handelingskader. In Van gedachte wisselen worden deze kernwaarden vanuit meerdere disciplines kritisch tegen het licht gehouden.

Thema’s die een belangrijke rol spelen binnen de beroepsprakti...

Veiligheidskundigen krijgen in uiteenlopende situaties met economie te maken. Zij moeten in verschillende situaties de kosten van veiligheid in kaart kunnen brengen en de kosten van de maatregelen kunnen berekenen. De directeur-grootaandeelhouder van een onderneming en een veiligheidskundige van een gemeente hebben op verschillende manieren te maken met economische facetten van veiligheid.

Basisboek veiligheid en economie bevat een breed scala aan bedrijfseconomische begrippen waarmee veilig...

Fully updated fourth edition of Trotter's well-established text on working with involuntary clients. The new edition includes a new chapter on Collaborative Family Work and additional emphasis on trauma informed practice. Includes plentiful case examples and links to practice, from a range of settings including work with people with addictions, young people who refuse to go to school and mental health patients who refuse treatment, as well as examples from criminal justice and child protection.

Presents a practical model for evidence-based practice and discusses a range of intervention models and relationships skills. Takes into account up-to-date research evidence throughou...

The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities.

It includes:* a broad overview of core themes, ...

Widely acknowledged as being the first academic text to provide a critical overview of the (big) data revolution and the classification of data which it outlined is now widely used/recognised as the taxonomy in social science. The Data Revolution a canonical text in data studies and the wider social sciences.

Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons - first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open to all, but that explicitly expresses, encourages and exemplifies new forms of social relations a...