This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing over 2 billion words.The Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people, countries, and science.

With a real focus on the practical, this book provides students with a step-by-step approach, plenty of real-life examples, and downloadable data and exercises on the accompanying study website to help take the fear and intimidation out of multilevel modeling

A quick, clear and interesting guide for students completing their final year research project.

Case Study Research in Practice is a guide to the theory and practice of case study research, instructing the reader in how to construct, conduct and communicate the story of the subject of their research.

Helping students to easily compare and select qualitative methods, this new introduction from expert authors is a practical guide to the research process

Through case studies and a review of contemporary literature, this book sets out a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people.

Rich in stories from the author's own research, and examples of graduate students' research dilemmas, this book is a both theoretical and practical guide to all aspects of narrative inquiry.

An introduction to self-reflexive practice, this book - a collage of different voices and perspectives - in underpinned by the idea of living your life as inquiry

An easy-to-use primer looking at an area that has frequently been neglected in standard research methods books.