With brand new chapters on ethics and mixed methods, this indispensable guide continues to provide readers with everything they need to develop effective and successful research proposals.

Packed with checklists, this is the foolproof solution to getting interview data quickly and effectively.

After interviews, the most common data collection instrument undergraduates turn to is a short survey. This requires them to write a questionnaire. Sounds easy - it's not! This LQF shows them how to do it right.

This practical guide offers an approachable introduction to doing hermeneutic phenomenological research across the health and social sciences.

This quick guide will help students be prepared for and avoid the unique and complex issues that can arise when working with online data, enabling them to decide what online data is best suited to their research question.

This new English translation of Francois Jullien's work is a compelling summation of his thinking on the comparison between Western and Chinese thought. The title, From Being to Living, summarises his essential point: that western thinking is obsessed by - and determined as well as limited by - the notion of Being, whereas traditional Chinese thought was always situated in Living.

An introductory guide to the key concepts, themes, and topics in the discipline of sociology, providing sociology students with comprehensive coverage of all the main areas of study for their first year and beyond.

Takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer treating them as opposed - as many existing texts do - but as logically and methodologically related in social research

Covering core topics from preparation to questionnaire design, recruitment testing to analysis and survey software, this book covers the past 15 years of research and provides readers with practical direction on techniques for collecting valid and reliable data.