In this volume, evaluators from a wide range of backgrounds assess how empowerment evaluation has been used in practice since the publication of the first edition in 1996, looking at theories and concepts, as well as evaluation principles.

Packed with illustrations from the health sciences literature, the book shows students how to design, conduct, review, and use mixed methods research findings. Throughout the book, real-world examples and insights from mixed methods researchers provide unique perspectives on every aspect of mixed methods research.

Putting an emphasis on using in-depth interviews in qualitative research, this book shows readers how to expand the scope of their research

Continually praised for its conversational tone, personal examples, and helpful pedagogical tools, this book is organized around the modern ideas of progress, knowledge, and democracy.

Uses dance, yoga, and meditation metaphors to help researchers tap into the intuitive and creative side of their research.

Conversations About Group Concept Mapping: Applications, Examples, & Enhancements takes a concise, practice-based approach to concept mapping. After defining the method, demonstrating how to design a project, and providing guidelines to analyse the results, the book then dives into real research exemplars.

Michael Quinn Patton's Facilitating Evaluation: Principles in Practice is the first book of its kind to explain in depth and detail how to facilitate evaluation processes with stakeholders, using the author's own stories of his experiences as an evaluation facilitator.

A concise, introductory text on propensity score methods that is easy to comprehend by those who have a limited background in statistics, and is practical enough for researchers to quickly generalize and apply the methods.

This concise text from The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit provides a clear and digestible introduction to completing quantitative research. Taking you step-by-step through the process of completing your quantitative research project, it offers guidance on formulating a research question, completing a literature review, designing your research around your data source, and choosing appropriate methodology.

The Data Gaze is concerned with understanding how data-led, data-driven and data-reliant forms of capitalism pervade organisational and everyday life.