This book offers insight into how to secure, manage and effectively research funding in the changing order of global economy and competing research priorities.

Systematically explains the concepts that have preoccupied medical sociologists from its inception, and which have shaped the field as it exists today.

This is a unique methodological resource drawing together contributions from leading scholars across the social sciences, each offering insights into particular measurement-related challenges they have confronted and how they have addressed them.

Providing readers with the introduction to doing research into digital cultures and technologies, this book considers the methodological, practical and theoretical elements of digital ethnography and demonstrates how to research experiences and relationships as well as objects and events

From selecting appropriate methods to publishing your findings, this second edition offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the qualitative research process built around the authors' Qualitative Research Cycle - consisting of the design, data collection and analytic cycles.

This cutting-edge overview explores big data and the related topic of computer code, examining the implications for education and schooling for today and the near future.

This concise and practical guide explores the use of Conversation Analysis as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.

Written with Jean McNiff's trademark enthusiasm and accessibility, this book - complete with a practical workbook - gives readers all they need to be able to do action research in their own context with confidence.

New to online qualitative research? This book equips you with the skills to make good research choices so you can confidently conduct a project using internet methods.