Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real life, and popular culture, this textbook, now in its fourth edition, offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and offers a practical guide for conducting research.

This updated fourth edition provides students and researchers with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, textual analysis, ethnography and participant observation, and digital ethnography and netnography.

An exploration of both the context and practice of increasingly automated welfare states. From the complex technological systems behind implementation, to the lived experiences of citizens and workers in these new systems, to the possibilities for resisting and re-directing this datafication.

The seventh edition of How to Conduct Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide by Arlene Fink provides a concise and reliable resource for developing and running surveys. The seventh edition includes new information on the use of AI in surveys, social media, videoconference platforms, cultural validity, and research ethics, along with updated data and citations throughout.

Combining ‘how to think’ instruction with a ‘how to produce’ mentality, this book takes readers step-by-step through analysing, designing, and curating information into useful, impactful tools of communication.

Need to tackle your research project? This practical, straightforward book covers every step along the way so you can confidently take the leap into the research world.

Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics of ageing. It addresses a broad range of themes, including health economics, labour economics, pensions and social security, generational accounting, wealth inequality and regional perspectives.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to criminological theory for students taking courses in criminology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

An updated edition of the bestselling text broadens the conception of mindfulness, and shows how mindful inquirers can maximize positive outcomes for participants, organizations, communities, and themselves. The first five chapters describe the application of mindful inquiry, and the following nine introduce cultures of inquiry and research traditions, theories, methods, and techniques.