With a calming, reassuring tone, Nicholas Walliman gives students the ability and confidence to plan, design, and prepare for a research project.

Outlining the principles of research design, this second edition will help the reader think through the questions they need to ask before embarking on their research.

Introducing the theory and practice of conversation, discourse and document analysis, this book proves how useful these methods are in addressing key questions in the social sciences.

Packed with examples from across the social sciences, this book helps students and researchers alike in turning systematic reviews into recommendations for policy and practice.

This book is the definitive approach to thematic analysis, offering a highly accessible and practical discussion of doing TA.

This book provides a theoretical guide for researchers learning how to interview in the social sciences.

Offering students the opportunity to determine and understand statistical analysis by first choosing the answers to basic design questions, readers will find that this hands-on book simplifies a complex research design into a few basic components.

A step-by-step guide to writing empirically focused research papers, this new introduction covers areas from formulating a hypothesis and doing pre-research, to managing both qualitative and quantitative data, through to preparing work for publication.

Constructing Social Research is an innovative text that can serve as an introduction to social research methods course, or as a capstone to an advanced course introducing a social scientific discipline. Rather than offer an inventory of data collection and analysis techniques, its primary goal is to show unity within the diversity of activities that are called social research.

This book will guide trainee teachers through each step of the teaching training process, from initial stages of planning and research, through to how to analyse data and write up a research project.