A core text for undergraduate and graduate courses on research methods in the social sciences and related fields such as education, business, health, and social care. Addressed primarily to neophytes who are engaged in small-scale research projects at colleges or work. Provides exercises, examples, annotated bibliographies for each chapter, and practical hints for all the stages of research. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

How to Research

Blaxter, Loraine

Hughes,Christina

Tight,Malcolm

Reference

Open Univ Pr

Three University of Warwick education colleagues cover the range of issues about employment in the dramatically evolving world of higher education for recent graduates, their mentors, and the upwardly mobile. This handbook offers reality checks and guidance on the key career tasks of networking, teaching, researching, assessing, writing, getting published, obtaining research funding, managing, and last but not least, getting promoted. While the data and focus are on the UK, the trends are generalizable. Distributed in the US by Taylor &amp; Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

The Academic Career Handbook

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Praise for the first edition: "an immensely useful resource." - Nursing Times Research "..As a graduate research student, I have come across a number of books claiming to inform the reader 'how to research', and have become sceptical...This book challenges that sceptism and is to be warmly welcomed." - Research Policy and Planning "..an excellent choice for any student about to start a research project for the first time." - British Journal of Educational Technology How to Research 2nd Edition is about the practice and experience of doing research in the social sciences as well as in related subjects such as education, business studies and health and social care. It is aimed at those, particularly the less experienced, who are involved in small-scale research projects at college or at work. The book is written in an original, accessible and jargon free style using a variety of different forms of presentation to support the researcher. How to Research 2nd Edition offers: * a series of useful exercises to help progress research thinking * a wide range of examples taken from a variety of subject areas * extensive annotated bibliographies for further reading * practical hints for all stages of the research process This new edition has been completely revised with up-to-date bibliographies and has new sections on choosing the appropriate method; internet research; and searching the internet. An essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate research methods courses in the social sciences and invaluable for anyone carrying out research as part of a workplace assignment.

Politics & Social Sciences

Blaxter,Lorraine

Social Sciences

Open University Press

This book is a useful addition to the growing literature in the field of educational research methodology, and offers a lively and very unusual introduction to an aspect of research which has so far received little attention. It is particularly helpful in drawing on experience across the educational landscape, including adult and lifelong education, as well as schools-based work. For this very reason it will be a very valuable resource for a broad audience.” Studies in the Education of Adults The processes and practices of the dissemination of research findings are exceptionally neglected fields in the research methods literature. Yet disseminating and using our findings are significant reasons why we undertake research. Organised in three parts, this text provides an accessible, critically informed and up-to-date overview of key aspects of dissemination. In so doing this text:* provides a critical review of contemporary policy and dissemination models in education. * contains a series of case studies produced by internationally respected researchers in a range of educational fields. Drawing on their extensive experiences of dissemination, these case studies illuminate how dissemination acts proceed in qualitative research projects. They also illuminate the dilemmas facing qualitative researchers who strive to disseminate their work. * Enables researchers to develop 'informed practice' in respect of disseminating research in a range of educational settings.

Disseminating Qualitative Research in Educational Settings (Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings)

Disseminating Qualitative Research in Educational Settings

How to Research 2nd Edition is about the practice and experience of doing research in the social sciences as well as in related subjects such as education, business studies and health and social care. It is aimed at those, particularly the less experienced, who are involved in small-scale research projects at college or at work. The book is written in an original, accessible and jargon-free style using a variety of different forms of presentation to support the researcher. 
How to Research 2nd Edition offers a series of useful exercises to help progress research thinking, a wide range of examples taken from a variety of subject areas, extensive annotated bibliographies for further reading, and practical hints for all stages of the research process. This new edition has been completely revised with up-to-date bibliographies and has new sections on choosing the appropriate method; internet research; and searching the internet. It will be a core text for undergraduate and postgraduate research methods courses in the social sciences and will also be invaluable for those carrying out research as part of a workplace assignment.

Learn Techniques to Find the Information You Need This revised third edition delivers invaluable guidance on how to collect data, write proposals, and make presentations. Offering you step-by-step techniques for the most efficient and focused research in school or work projects, How to Research includes hands-on exercises that build up skills and strengthen research techniques useful for any project, in any field.

Learn Techniques to Find the Information You Need This revised third edition delivers invaluable guidance on how to collect data, write proposals, and make presentations. Offering you step-by-step techniques for the most efficient and focused research in school or work projects, How to Research includes hands-on exercises that build up skills and strengthen research techniques useful for any project, in any field.

"I found this book brilliant, I had never undertaken anything like a dissertation before and this book had everything in it that I needed to know. It is written in 'simple English' which is a bonus as some books are just too hard to understand. Everything you need to know about writing your dissertation is in here. I would recommend this book to all levels." *****Review of the third edition from Amazon.co.uk How to Research is a bestselling, practical book that reassures the first time researcher by leading them systematically through the whole research process; from the initial meetings with a supervisor to critically evaluating their ideas, doing the research and finally writing up the project.
 The book includes vignettes to help readers relate to research examples and provides both methodological and process information.
 New features in this edition include:
<ul>
<li> Additional coverage on literature reviews </li>
<li> New material on changes in research ethics </li>
<li> More detailed information on the use of diaries, internet ethnographies and visual methods </li>
<li> Increased coverage of mixed methodologies</li>
</ul>
How to Research 4e is an ideal resource for the first-time researcher doing a small-scale research project in the social sciences whether they are at university or in the workplace. It supports its readers as they develop their skills to become more experienced researchers.

How to Research (Open Up Study Skills)

Transdisciplinary Feminist Research (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

What is feminist transdisciplinary research? Why is it important? How do we do it? Through nineteen contributions from leading international feminist scholars, this book provides new insights into activating transdisciplinary feminist theories, methods and practices in original, creative and exciting ways - ways that make a difference both to what research is and does, and to what counts as knowledge. The contributors draw on their own original research and engage an impressive array of contemporary theorizing - including new materialism, decolonialism, critical disability studies, historical analyses, Black, Indigenous and Latina Feminisms, queer feminisms, Womanist Methodologies, trans studies, arts-based research, philosophy, spirituality, science studies and sports studies - to trouble traditional conceptions of research, method and praxis. The authors show how working beyond disciplinary boundaries, and integrating insights from different disciplines to produce new knowledge, can prompt important new transdisciplinarity thinking and activism in relation to ongoing feminist concerns about knowledge, power and gender. In doing so, the book attends to the multiple lineages of feminist theory and practice and seeks to bring these historical differences and intersections into play with current changes, challenges and opportunities in feminism. The book's practically-grounded examples and wide-ranging theoretical orbit are likely to make it an invaluable resource for established scholars and emerging researchers in the social sciences, arts, humanities, education, and beyond.

Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

Taylor,Carol

Ulmer, Jasmine

Routledge

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How to Research

The Academic Career Handbook

How to Research

Disseminating Qualitative Research in Educational Settings (Doing Qualitative Research in Educational Settings)

Disseminating Qualitative Research in Educational Settings

How to Research

How to Research

How to Research

How to Research (Open Up Study Skills)

Transdisciplinary Feminist Research: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)