A new research project guide for social science students used to hybrid teaching and research; it comes from two young, energetic methods experts who map the individual’s journey through a contained project.

This thought-provoking book looks at how AI technologies are changing organizations, society and the world of work, combining breadth, critical analysis and academic rigour.

The perfect guide for research methods. This textbook spans formulating a research question and conducting a literature review, generating/collecting data and analysing data, up to writing up and disseminating your findings. This text guides you through the research process from start to finish.

Approaches to Mixed Methods Research focuses on the choices social scientists make when designing a study that mixes quantitative and qualitative data. Authors Lisa D. Pearce and Jessica Halliday Hardie explore ways to weave together strands of research using qualitative and quantitative data to speak to and enhance each other; a strand being a series of steps involved in collecting and analyzing a single type of data.

The result, they show, is a more holistic body of evidence that emerges, a...

An Introduction to Intercultural Communication prepares students to successfully navigate our increasingly interconnected global community by introducing essential communication skills and concepts. In the latest Eleventh Edition, best-selling author Fred E. Jandt offers unique insights into intercultural communication, at home and abroad, through a focus on history, culture, and popular media.

Mixed Methods Research Outside the Box offers a fresh and unconventional perspective on mixed methods research. Author Joseph A. Maxwell empowers readers to creatively blend qualitative and quantitative approaches. Drawing from modern insights on causation and philosophy of science, this book promotes innovation in mixed methods.

This illuminating guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use key case examples from a variety of settings to illustrate the skills needed at different stages of the coaching relationship, including chapters on:

Establishing the Working Alliance

Inquiring Collaboratively

Use of Self

The Presenting Past

Enactments, Games, Ruptures and Repairs

Endings in...

A step-by-step guide to understanding the concepts of research and gathering data to writing it all up and sharing knowledge, this book enables readers to learn the research process with confidence, build practical knowledge, and make the necessary connections between research and professional practice.

Agenda setting, practical guide to a popular new interview technique from a world class name in the field. It is the first step-by-step introduction to Dyadic interviews from the perspective of both the interviewer and the interviewee.