Paul Stoneman and Nigel Gilbert breathe new energy into this classic bestselling textbook providing clear, relevant advice and extensive coverage of all the research methods you need to understand today's society.

This book explores the fun things researchers can do with logistic regression, explicates and simplifies the confounding complexities of understanding what logistic regression is, and provides evidence-based guidance as to what the best practices in performing logistic regression are.

Building on the authors' experience with their own doctoral students, this easy-to-read guide, helps and encourages students to write and complete their thesis faster.

This book summarizes the most important questions about basic statistics from the simple understanding of summary statistics to more sophisticated inferential statistics

Uwe Flick takes you through the steps in method and design to ensure quality and reliability throughout the entire research process.

A guide to how participatory visual methods and arts-based methods can influence social change and make a significant contribution to policy dialogue.

This book will help researchers to maximize the impact and highlight the innovation of their research by showing them how to get the most out of social media when evaluating, presenting and disseminating their work.

Provides a very practical and step-by-step guide to collecting and managing qualitative data

Now featuring a total of 21 case study applications and six completely new chapters, this third edition helps students and researchers to improve upon their own research techniques, and provides them with the basis to critique other case studies.

Takes the panic out of sampling designs and helps students understand what sampling is, how it applies to different types of situations, and how to decide what approach works best for their project so they can maximize the impact of their research.