Incorporating recurring case studies, student real life examples, and packed with exercises, chapter objectives and suggestions for further reading, this highly practical guide encourages personal development and ensures that trainees and qualified therapists get the most, both professionally and personally, from their practice-based research.

This exciting new text helps researchers to successfully understand and achieve impact in their research, and to demonstrate this impact in order to secure funding and to show excellence in REF

Presenting students with an easy-to-manage introduction to the area, this new text covers all theories that students will encounter on their course focussing on the context of the historical development of criminology as an academic discipline

This is an in-depth yet practical guide for Masters students on conducting research interviews, from conceiving the interview, through to preparing, conducting and analysing the interview.

The critical algorithms used in GIS are notoriously difficult to both teach and understand. This book address the problem by combining rigorous formal language with example case studies and student exercises.

This book is a complete guide for those practitioners who facilitate action learning and who can, in turn, develop the reflective practice and critical thinking skills now demanded of Newly Qualified Social Workers.

Explores the key practical and theoretical issues underpinning cross-curricular teaching and learning across the early years, primary education and lower secondary school.

If you're struggling with writing your dissertation, or need to write up a practical report as part of your placement, discover how to craft your writing into a well-written project. Using the 'six Ps' - pondering, preparing, planning, pausing, producing and polishing - you'll learn how to produce a persuasive piece of writing, whatever you're studying.

By examining how young children develop and learn from conception through to the age of eight, this book explores ways to enhance professional practice in the early years. For further discussion and engagement with current issues and hot topics in Early Childhood subscribe to Sheila Nutkin's author blog.

This book explores recent developments and debates around researching ethically and with integrity, and complying with ethical requirements, and has been updated and expanded to now cover issues relating to international, indigenous, interdisciplinary and internet research.