An engaging, practical introduction to research methods, guiding students through the challenges of developing a project, with abundant examples, activities and digital resources.

With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives students the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for a research project.

Packed with features like case studies and checklists, this accessible book gets you up and running so you can both understand interview research and use it in your project.

Helping the reader get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis, the authors introduce eight analytical approaches that are key to social science research.

This approachable introduction to doing data science in R provides step-by-step advice on using the tools and statistical methods to carry out data analysis. Introducing the fundamentals of data science and R before moving into more advanced topics like Multilevel Models and Probabilistic Modelling with Stan, it builds knowledge and skills gradually. This book: Focuses on providing practical guidance for all aspects, helping readers get to grips with the tools, software, and statistical me...

A qualitative research book for the 'doers', this text provides really practical coverage for those that are undertaking research in real-world contexts.

Now with new, in-depth case studies to really help students visualise the realities of research, this textbook continues to provide the guidance to help them both evaluate existing studies and design their own robust, ethical projects

Offering students the opportunity to determine and understand statistical analysis by first choosing the answers to basic design questions, readers will find that this hands-on book simplifies a complex research design into a few basic components.

A step-by-step guide to writing empirically focused research papers, this new introduction covers areas from formulating a hypothesis and doing pre-research, to managing both qualitative and quantitative data, through to preparing work for publication.

Constructing Social Research is an innovative text that can serve as an introduction to social research methods course, or as a capstone to an advanced course introducing a social scientific discipline. Rather than offer an inventory of data collection and analysis techniques, its primary goal is to show unity within the diversity of activities that are called social research.