This new text from Mary Larkin on the increasingly important life course approach covers health from pre-pregnancy to old age. Chapters include suggestions for further reading, discussion points, activities and activity commentaries to make it ideal for interactive student learning and critical reflection.

This book is about research designs for projects that collect both qualitative and quantitative data, so that their combined strengths will accomplish more than would have been possible with any one method.

Social Work Research in Practice

An accessible guidebook to the different approaches taken by ethnographers studying education. Part of our brand new series on Education Research published in association with BERA.

Written by a team of experts and with contributions from seminal academics and leading practitioners, this text provides the concise link between theoretical learning and the key practical skills needed to increase students' grades and employability.

An accessible guide for all teachers and trainee teachers in FE. It considers what is means to teach Higher Education courses in Further Education and how an HE environment can be created in an FE setting.

Part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series, this title is written specifically to support students on the social work degree. It is full of practical activities, case studies and opportunities for students to critically reflect and explore theory and practice.

Providing a retrospective and prospective overview of organization studies, the Handbook continues to challenge and inspire readers with its synthesis of knowledge and literature.

Looking at the analysis of policies with a view to changing them, this book is written by an expert on policy research and shows ways of presenting alternatives to policy-makers

A brief, yet in-depth examination of twelve major sociological theories.