With step-by-step instructions covering the entire research process, and with an emphasis on meaningful analysis to encourage good judgement, this book provides that ideal stepping stone between learning about research and actually doing it

In this engaging and well-illustrated volume of the SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, Peter Martin helps you make the crucial steps towards mastering multivariate analysis of social science data, introducing the fundamental linear and non-linear regression models used in quantitative research. The author covers both the theory and application of statistical models, with the help of illuminating graphs.

This book gives you the tools to conduct your own documentary research and celebrates the importance of documentary analysis across the social sciences.

This book offers insight into how to secure, manage and effectively research funding in the changing order of global economy and competing research priorities.

Systematically explains the concepts that have preoccupied medical sociologists from its inception, and which have shaped the field as it exists today.

Being able to read and interpret tables and graphs is a skill that is frequently tested and where students often lose marks in tests. This Little Quick Fix prepares students to read, interpret and produce tables and graphs with confidence and succeed in their exams.

Written from the insider's perspective, this text helps organizations become more focused on using evaluation to improve policies, strategies, programming and delivery of public and communal services

This text looks at what many survey scientists believe to be the largest source of error: nonsampling error.

This brief and accessible title integrates contemporary scholarly research with compelling vignettes to make it appealing to both instructors and undergraduate audiences. While focused on the United States in respect to its target audience and emphasis, it contains considerable international data that compares and contrasts social policies adopted in Europe and elsewhere.

Written with Jean McNiff's trademark enthusiasm and accessibility, this book - complete with a practical workbook - gives readers all they need to be able to do action research in their own context with confidence.