A coordinated and comprehensive volume of international research on this subject edited by members of the well-established European Early Childhood Education Research Association Outdoor Play and Learning SIG (OPAL).

An approachable, holistic guide to qualitative inquiry across a wide range of interpretive perspectives, including thematic, narrative and arts-based types of inquiry, now with updated examples, a fresh text design and improved navigation.

The second edition of this popular book introduces agent-based modeling, an increasingly popular approach enabling researchers to build models where individual entities and their interactions are directly represented.

The first book on the market giving step-by-step guidance to students on how to do qualitative content analysis.

This text provides a solid introduction to concepts such as statistical control, mediation, moderation, and path modeling necessary to students taking intermediate and advanced statistics courses across the social sciences.

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

Packed full of case studies, activities and hints and tips for best practice, this book gives coaching and mentoring trainees the knowledge and skills they need to make the best start in their research career.

A step-by-step approach to guide students through the whole research process, from initial ideas, through to writing up and presenting the findings.

Sharp and focused, this book provides the need-to-know information on how to design and implement a good, high quality research project. Oriented around real-world application, it emphasizes the aspects of research most relevant to conducting practice-based research. Assuming no prior knowledge, but appropriate for experienced learners, it builds knowledge at a sustainable pace.

It offers readers: - A no frills guide to methodology and the theory of conducting research - Strategies for commun...