The third edition of Research Methods, Statistics, and Applications integrates research methods and statistics to show that the research process requires a combination of these two elements. This text uses examples and applications from across the social and behavioral sciences. This edition includes a new chapter on measurement and updates for the 7th edition of the APA Manual.

Corporate Art Collections have been initiated and curated to educate staff, stimulate creative and out-of-the-box thinking, improve brand image, and express corporate cultural responsibility through support for artists and the art world. Yet while Corporate Art Collections are an important part of the international cultural and art worlds, their position, significance and agency in those realms are rarely considered in its transnational entirety. The usual perspective is either within nationa...

Boegbeeld in de kelder schetst de bewogen geschiedenis van de gevarieerde archeologische collectie van KU Leuven. De eerste professor archeologie in ons land, kanunnik Edmond Reusens, bouwde vanaf 1864 een didactische collectie archeologie uit in het Maria-Theresiacollege. In de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw werd de verzameling succesvol uitgebreid dankzij de inspanningen van René Maere, Raymond A.G. Lemaire en Fernand Mayence, hoogleraren in respectievelijk de christelijke archeologie, archi...

Computational approaches offer exciting opportunities for us to do social science differently. This beginner's guide discusses a range of computational methods and how to use them to study the problems and questions you want to research.

Heritage institutions face major changes in the areas of digitisation, narrative, inclusivity, and participation. In this groundbreaking book Wim Hupperetz, an expert in the field of museums, heritage and digital curation, reflects on the challenge of change. How does a museum move from an object or a collection to storytelling, and what is the impact of digitisation on curatorship? How to assess the biography of a collection when you think of museums as a medium of memory? And in striving to...

Explores the field of research ethics and presents a distinctive perspective; one that is at odds with the assumptions underpinning ethical regulation, but also with the views of many qualitative researchers today.

What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin’s Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and fu...

Teksten helpen de museumbezoeker bij het begrijpen, waarderen én genieten van museumcollecties. Gelukkig zijn tegenwoordig overal in de musea informatieve teksten te vinden. Maar zijn het ook altijd goede teksten? Te vaak zijn ze te lang, te ingewikkeld of slecht leesbaar vormgegeven. 'Kort en krachtig' is bedoeld voor alle schrijvers van museumteksten. Het bevat een theoretische onderbouwing waarom de ene aanpak beter is dan de andere en er wordt uitgelegd hoe om te gaan met bijvoorbeeld le...