This final book in Paul Atkinson's celebrated quartet focuses on material culture and sensory ethnography. Using the author's original fieldwork, the book explores how materials, techniques, tools, and perspectives combine with the five senses to inform ethnographic methods.

Computational approaches offer exciting opportunities for us to do social science differently. This beginner's guide discusses a range of computational methods and how to use them to study the problems and questions you want to research.

Giving both a theoretical and practical introduction to narrative approaches, this book is ideal for all those interested in getting to grips with and using narrative methods in their research.

Continuing to be THE guide to the whole qualitative research process for students, this book looks at both the theory behind qualitative research and how to put it into practice in your own work. For students across a range of social science disciplines and beyond, this is a must to help you enhance your research project. This edition introduces: a decolonisation of methodologies a range of indigenous, queer and feminist perspectives on methodologiesassistance with defending a viva and altern...

This book is a systematic, flexible guide to using biographical narrative methods as part of a research project, featuring a diverse range of case studies that show students how methods can be adapted to a range of international contexts and disciplines.

This book gets you up and running with doing complex Bayesian statistics, focussing on applied analysis rather than maths.

If you're a first-time researcher, this book covers everything you need to successfully complete your business research project, increase your employability and develop transferable skills.

This book walks you step-by-step through the entire research process, covering everything you need to successfully conduct a sports research project in the real world.

Data archives provide rich and expansive sources of information for researchers. Part of the SAGE Qualitative Research Kit, this book highlights the utility of secondary data analyses whilst showing you how to select the right datasets for your study, and in turn get the most out of your research.