An evidence-informed guide to major teaching topics found on Professional Studies modules on Initial Teacher Education courses. Written for primary and secondary trainee teachers on any training route into the profession.

Providing a thorough biopsychosocial approach, this lively and approachable guide is your ideal companion to studying health psychology.

This book offers a unique solution to the shortage of more imaginative and engaging research by re-imagining the core elements of the research process.

A complete introduction to leadership and management for newly emerging healthcare professionals embarking on the first steps of their career development journey.

An updated edition of a bestselling text that provides readers with a clear and comprehensive overview of methods for conducting management and business research.

Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city.

In this concise, theoretically-focused and empirically grounded book, Zapata-Barrero outlines the foundations of the intercultural policy paradigm that is emerging within diversity and migration studies.

Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this dip in and out of guide introduces students to over 350 key theories, theorists and concepts in a concise and no-nonsense way. Careful cross-referencing will help students make important connections, while selected further reading will prove you with a springboard to further learning.

Bringing together two core areas of the curriculum, play and literacy, this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacy and language development within the context of children's play.