This accessible guide helps students understand why careful research design is important and provides a range of designs based on key methods along with case studies and examples, so they can critically compare and use the approach that best suits their project.

Providing support, guidance, and an aid to study, this handy guide helps you adapt to life as a student in the UK. You will find tips and information on life skills, cultural differences and university life, as well as key research and study skills.

Reflecting the enormous changes that have taken place in our knowledge and understanding of developmental disorders, this groundbreaking international volume brings this vast and complex field together for the first time.

With case study examples that cover early years and primary, this book takes a child-centred approach by putting the focus on emotional well-being, offering individual strategies for raising literacy standards among children with dyslexia.

In the first textbook to cover ethnography specific to criminology, Treadwell guides readers through the ethnographic research process in full, starting with a background to criminological ethnography, through planning and doing an ethnographic project, and finally, the writing up and reporting stage.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the various forms of expressive therapy techniques used in counseling today.

With new coverage of how conceptual frameworks are conceptualized and developed and of a student's perspective on the role of conceptual frameworks, this book presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism - process and product.

A practical guide for people who commission, implement and use evaluations of complex development interventions.

This concise and practical guide explores the use of analysing quantitative survey data using classical test theory as a method for conducting research in a business and management Masters dissertation.

With a clear focus on the importance and prevalence of new and digital technologies, this book presents students with a practical guide to understanding the process of qualitative research in the social sciences