From refugee camps around the world, are the stories that the world hears anything like the life inside? This book tells us how camps become cities themselves and new technology creates communication structures that helps residents keep in touch with their families inside and outside.

This book is a guide for trainee and beginning teachers on how to use talk in the classroom. It explores the theory behind the teaching of language and communication skills and includes lots of practical advice on how to translate this into the classroom.

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

This book uses key sociological concepts and theories to help student social workers better understand the nature of their work and the context within which they will be working.

Extensively updated and with eight new chapters, this remains the definitive resource on Grounded Theory for advanced students and researchers across the social sciences.

An essential guide for students transitioning from undergraduate to registered nurse. The book covers all topics included on a final year transition module, is suitable for all fields of nursing, and is mapped to the latest NMC standards.

A guide to understanding digital research from both a conceptual and practical perspective, helping the reader to make sense of the issues, challenges and opportunities of social science research in the digital age.

This book combines practice, theory and research and draws on the authors' international experience to provide an invaluable resource for reflection and change for everyone who contributes to and studies leadership.

The field of sex work has undergone a massive expansion in the past ten years. In this new edition, three leading researchers come together to provide an interdisciplinary outline of sex work. This book provides comprehensive coverage of key areas common to the study of the female sex industry, as well as considering issues relating to male and transgender sex workers, young people who are sexually exploited, and migrant sex workers.

It also includes discussion of more recent forms of commer...

It is essential that social work students have a clear grasp of the history and the evolution of social work practice and this classic text explores the fundamental questions: What is social work? How has social work been defined over the years? What does social work look like now? And what is to come?