Identifying and addressing all of the challenges and opportunities posed when doing small-scale applied workplace-based research, this practical and applied guide provides readers with all they need to be able to deliver successful, impactful research projects.

This book offers students and researchers a hands-on guide to the practicalities of coding, comparing data, and using computer-assisted qualitative data analysis.

In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to provide readers with fundamental statistical literacy. Assuming no previous statistical knowledge, the author demystifies the subject in an engaging and approachable style.

This edited book guides students and researchers through the processes of researching everyday stories about families.

Through templates and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide clearly illustrates what good and bad data look like, in order to help students get going quickly and build an effective survey around a research question. In each chapter, survey-based challenges are linked to the broader research issues, maintaining the important theoretical context to the learning process.

This original and authoritative exploration of ethnographic writing comes from one of the world's leading academics in the field, Paul Atkinson. The third book in his seminal quartet on ethnographic research, it provides thoughtful, reflective guidance on a crucial skill that is often difficult to master.

An encyclopedic introduction to research, showing students how to think about every stage of their project and equipping them with the tools they need to understand different research processes.

This Handbook offers students, researchers and policy-makers a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary scholarship relating to the intersection of the digital economy and the media, cultural, and creative industries.

Conducting phenomenological research for dissertations can be an involved and challenging process, and writing it up is often the most challenging part. How to Write a Phenomenological Dissertation gives students practical, applied advice on how to structure and develop each chapter of the dissertation specifically for phenomenological research.