This is the essential guide to strengthening analytic and intuitive reasoning skills in order to improve children's safety.

Perfect for any statistics student or researcher, this book offers hands-on guidance on interpreting, analysing, and presenting results to achieve maximum impact.

Nicholas Walliman's writing style is well loved and widely read. In this book the authors practically guide health and social care students through the process of doing a dissertation and how to achieve success with such a project.

A guide to critical realism and an assessment of its virtues in comparison with other traditions in social science. It criticizes reductionism and determinism in "modernist" social science, along with postmodernism, anti-essentialism and constructionism.

Based on practice and research, this book will support trainee maths teachers to develop their teaching skills and wisdom

Going beyond a general introduction to offer a hands-on guide, Participatory Research empowers students to feel confident understanding and applying participatory methods to their research projects.

Domestic violence can affect all areas of social work. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive experience as practitioners and researchers in the field to show how social workers can intervene in everyday practice and facilitate change.

A highly accessible and up to the minute introduction to youth work for new students and those considering entering the profession