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Designing and Planning Your Research Project
David Thomas & Ian D Hodges
Written for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduate students planning theses and dissertations and other early career researchers, Designing and Managing Your Research Project aims to help you to successfully plan and complete your research project by showing you the key skills that you will need.
The book covers:
- software skills
- developing research objectives
- writing proposals
- literature reviews
- getting ethics approval
- seeking funding
- managing a project
- communicating research findings
- writing reports
- working as an independent researcher.
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INVOKING MNEMOSYNE
Kelly Clark/Keefe
Across this volume, readers encounter the author’s qualitative inquiry into the lives of women academics, including herself, who originated from working-class or poverty-class backgrounds. These encounters take shape as a self-speculative critique of the author’s feminist research practice, moving readers into the folds of the work to consider what constructivist, poststructural, and material feminist theories and methodologies do to the story she was able to tell at the time that she told it. Art is implicated throughout as a site for provocation, theorization, and encounter. |
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Principles of Methodology: Research Design in Social Science
Perri 6 & Christine Bellamy
This book provides a guide to social science methodology, establishing methodology as distinct from both methods and philosophy.
The book shows how an understanding of methodology allows us to design research so that findings can be used to answer interesting research questions and to build and test theories.
Most important things in social research (e.g., beliefs, institutions, interests, practices and social classes) cannot be observed directly. This book purports to explain how empirical research can nevertheless be designed to make sound inferences about their nature, effects and significance.
The authors examine what counts as good description, explanation and interpretation, and how this can be achieved by striking trade-offs between competing design virtues.
Coverage includes:
• why methodology matters;
• what philosophical arguments show us about inference;
• competing virtues of good research design;
• purposes of theory, models and frameworks;
• forming researchable concepts and typologies;
• explaining and interpreting: inferring causation, meaning and significance; and
• combining explanation and interpretation.
Extensive examples and exercises are provided.
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Qualitative Research and Theory Development: Mystery as Method
Mats Alvesson & Dan Karreman
Empirical data is one of the cornerstones of knowledge in the social sciences, and yet the researcher often takes it for granted, reserving his or her imaginative faculties for finding a theory that 'fits the data'. This account of the theory-data relationship calls this faith in data into question and establishes a reflexive framework and vocabulary to explore the creative, political and philosophical elements of data production.
Rather than thinking about the theory-data 'fit', Alvesson and Karreman encourage you to consider the research process as one of theory-data interplay, asking if creative empirical material can challenge established theory and inspire new lines of development, and if breakdowns and mysteries encountered in research can be a constructive rather than destructive process.
They encourage you to think critically about empirical data in terms of construction rather than verification, and most importantly they encourage you to develop theory that is interesting and novel. |
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Social Research and Reflexivity
Beth Perry and Tim May
What are the critical gaps in thinking about reflexivity and social research?How is reflexive practice shaped by the contexts and cultures in which researchers work? How might research practice respond to twin demands of excellence and relevance in the knowledge-based economy?
This book provides a history of reflexive thought, and discusses its consequences for the practice of social research and an understanding of the contexts in which it is produced.
It promises insights into the implications of reflexivity through a discussion of positioning, belonging and degrees of epistemic permeability in disciplines. It also suggests ways forward in research practice through the introduction of active intermediaries. |
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Gezien de ander: Eerbied voor autonomie en authenticiteit in het pastoraat
A.B. Timmerman
Dit ethisch onderzoek gaat ervan uit dat praktijkbeoefenaren, in dit geval basispastores, in hun praktijk ontdekken wat er moreel gesproken toe doet. Het onderzoek wordt gedaan vanuit het type moraaltheologie waarin geluk de centrale categorie is en de doelen van handelen leidend zijn. Eén bepaalde praktijk wordt onderzocht en daarbinnen waar welke morele goederen opduiken. In het bijzonder is Timmerman geïnteresseerd in autonomie en authenticiteit als morele goederen.
Timmerman beargumenteert dat morele goederen zich procesmatig ontvouwen. Het gaat niet om het “hebben van normen en waarden”, maar om het gaandeweg – door te handelen en daarop terug te kijken – ontdekken wat er, moreel gesproken, toe doet.
Meer dan met het in regie nemen van het eigen leven hebben autonomie en authenticiteit volgens Timmerman te maken met dat mensen zichzelf, hun eigen leven, de wereld waarin ze leven en de noodlottigheid ervan voor hun rekening kunnen nemen. Het respecteren en bevorderen van autonomie en authenticiteit gebeurt altijd in een welbepaalde betrekking.
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The Essential Guide to Using the Web for Research
Nigel Ford
In recent years, the internet has provided students and researchers with many opportunities to conduct research using little more than their own computer. All too often, however, internet research also poses a distinct set of challenges and can give rise to sloppy research when conducted without care.
The Essential Guide to Using the Web for Research discusses skills needed to navigate the web and use it, emphasizing independent learning and the ability to critically assess information and transform it into evidence.
In connecting these online skills to the research process, Ford aims to help students to understand and answer research questions, construct an argument and present their evidence.
The book includes sections on:
o beginner and advanced search techniques
o assessing online information
o organising and storing information
o social networking sites and other online tools
o referencing, copyright and plagiarism.
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Theory and Methods in Social Research: Second Edition
Cathy Lewin & Bridget Somekh
This new edition provides an introduction to qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods.
With chapters written by research practitioners, this second edition has been extensively expanded and updated. There are seven completely new chapters, as well as:
- new material on literature reviews
- a new introduction to quantitative methods
- an expanded glossary
- Weblinks with free access to a wide range of peer-reviewed journal articles
- an annotated bibliography with conversational notes from authors in each chapter.
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Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner'S Guide To Doing A Research Project
Uwe Flick
In this book, written for first time researchers, Uwe Flick focuses on the process of producing an undergraduate research project. The book covers both quantitative and qualitative methods, and contains real life examples from the author's own research. Its contents include:
- reading and reviewing the literature
- research design
- writing up
- research ethics
As well as practical research techniques, Flick provides an explanation of methodological issues such as epistemology, the quantitative/qualitative debate and the wider social role of research, linking these to real world issues and examples and the actual task of researching and writing a project.
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The meaning of learning and knowing
Rossum, E.J. van; Hamer, R.N.
In the Meaning of Learning and Knowing, a six-stage developmental model of linked learning and teaching conceptions is presented. This model is compared to established epistemological models and quantitative approaches to epistemology. The authors argue that their model of learning and teaching conceptions provides a window onto a broader and more fundamental intellectual development. They link their model through possible developmental dynamics to a second tier of intellectual growth. Where the first stages focus on learning to know, a second tier of stages focus on learning to be. Based on longitudinal data of 224 students as well as essays of 43 teachers of the Hotelschool The Hague, the authors argue that Enterprising Learning is more successful in facilitating epistemological growth than a traditional curriculum.
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The SAGE Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods
Malcolm Williams & W Paul Vogt
This Handbook provides a critical assessment of the field of social research methods. The main features of the Handbook are:
- Organization into 4 parts dealing with The Social Context of Research; Design and Data Collection; Integrating The Analysis of New Data Types; Sampling, Inference and Measurement
- Chapters on Objectivity; Causation; Organizing Social Research; Correspondence Analysis; Grounded Theory; Conversational Surveys; Mixed Methods; Meta-Analysis; Optimal Matching Analysis; GIS Analysis; Quantitative Narrative Analysis; Longitudinal Studies; SEM; MLM; Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Respondent Driven Sampling
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Social Research: An Introduction. Second Edition
Matthew David & Carol D Sutton
The new edition of David and Sutton's text provides those new to social research with an introduction to the theory, logic and practical methods of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. Covering aspects of research design, data collection, data analysis and writing up, Social Research: An Introduction aims to be a companion for all undergraduate and postgraduate students embarking on a methods course or social research project.
The second edition features:
- New chapters on visual methods, case study methods, internet research, mixed methods and grounded theory
- Updated chapters on interviews, questionnaire design, surveys, and focus groups
- Improved coverage of qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis, including practical instruction on the latest versions of software packages NiVivo 8 and SPSS 18
- A new layout to aid navigability and enhance the book's student learning features
- A companion website (www.uk.sagepub.com/david) with PowerPoint slides and links to websites
- Practical examples to help bring theory to life
Designed for social science students with no previous experience, this book aims to provide a balanced foundation in the principles and practices of social research.
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Designing Social Research: A Guide for the Bewildered
Ian Greener
Designing Social Research aims to guide students and new researchers using everyday non-jargonised language through the jungle of setting up their own research study. Ian Greener aims to provide readers a combination of guidance on how to practically plan one's research and understand the underpinning methodological principles that should inform the decisions we make about the methods we plan to use.
The goal throughout is to enable students and researchers to assess the appropriateness of a range of methods and to get understanding of the strengths and limitations of different approaches to research.
Greener highlights debates in the field - both philosophical and practical. Coverage includes:
- Framing an effective research question/problem;
- Examining the jargon of social research;
- The links between theory, methodology and method;
- The role of literature reviewing in research design;
- Managing and planning the research process;
- Sampling;
- Qualitative designs;
- Quantitative designs;
- Mixed methods designs;
- Data analysis.
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All You Need to Know About Action Research. Second Edition
Jean McNiff & Jack Whitehead
In the second edition of All You Need to Know about Action Research, Jean McNiff and Jack Whitehead aim to guide you through everything you need to know to plan and carry out a successful action research project.
The book provides:
- A guide to the history and philosophy underpinning action research
- Coverage of theoretical debates in action research
- A discussion of how action research can help your learning and your professional practice
- Practical help in planning your project
- Help with writing about your research and disseminating your findings.
The second edition has been updated, and includes new real-life case studies from Education, Health and Business. A new chapter on reviewing the literature has been added and the sections on data gathering and analysis have been updated to take into account technological advances.
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Social Research: A Practical Introduction
Bruce Curtis & Cate Curtis
This is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations.
The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to social science research, drawing from areas such as sociology, social psychology and social anthropology.
Explicitly addressing the concerns of emergent researchers it provides both a 'how to' account of social research and a discussion of factors that contextualize research by discussing 'why do' social scientists work this way.
Throughout the twelve chapters procedural (how to) accounts and contextual (why do) issues are applied to major themes and substantive questions.
These themes include:
(1) Research design
(2) The practices of research and emergent researchers: Beyond ontology, epistemology and methodology
(3) The impact of technology on research
(4) Putting the research approach in context.
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Kwalitatief onderzoeken: praktische kennis voor de onderzoekende professional
Rene Brohm & Wendy Jansen
In dit boek worden kwalitatieve onderzoeksbenaderingen beschreven, die kunnen helpen bij het opzetten, uitvoeren, analyseren en rapporteren van een kwalitatief onderzoek. De relatie tussen praktijk en theorie staat centraal, waarbij beide gelijkwaardig zijn. De lezer wordt daarom aangesproken als onderzoekende professional.
Professionals hebben te maken met venijnige problemen. Bij venijnige problemen zullen er geen oplossingen zijn die in veel situaties werken - anders waren ze al gevonden.In plaats van snelle antwoorden te zoeken, gaat het om het kunnen stellen van trage vragen. Een onderzoekende houding helpt bij het kiezen van de essentiele kenmerken van de situatie en het creeren van samenhang. Zo kan de professional ervoor zorgen dat het oordelen over goede oplossingen een plaats krijgt. Dit is de reden waarom in toenemende mate aandacht is voor verhalen en narratief onderzoek bij het bestuderen van organisaties: men begint steeds meer in te zien dat verhalen een belangrijke rol spelen in organisaties.
Dit boek is bedoeld voor gevorderde studenten van HBO, universiteit en cursisten van Professionele Masters. Dit boek biedt ook een kennismaking met kwalitatieve onderzoeksmethoden voor professionals die geïnteresseerd zijn in manieren om hun eigen praktijk te onderzoeken en vorm te geven.
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Data Collection: Key Debates and Methods in Social Research
Wendy Olsen
This book provides students and researchers alike with an introduction to theoretical issues and practical methods for data collection.
It uses definitions, interdisciplinary examples from around the world and suggestions for further reading to demonstrate how to gather and use qualitative, quantitative, and mixed data sets.
The book is divided into seven parts:
• Data Collection: An Introduction to Research Practices
• Collecting Qualitative Data
• Observation and Informed Methods
• Experimental and Systematic Data Collection
• Survey Methods for Data Collection
• The Case Study Method of Data Collection
• Concluding Suggestions for Data Collection Groups
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Synthesizing Qualitative Research: Choosing the Right Approach
Karin Hannes, Craig Lockwood
A considerable number of journal publications using a range of qualitative synthesis approaches has been published. Mary Dixon-Woods and colleagues (Mary Dixon-Woods, Booth, & Sutton, 2007) identified 42 qualitative evidence synthesis papers published in health care literature between 1990 and 2004. An ongoing update by Hannes and Macaitis (2010)identified around 100 additional qualitative or mixed methods syntheses. Yet these generally lack a clear, detailed description of what was done and why (Greenhalgh et al, 2007; McInnes & Wimpenny, 2008) . Choices are most commonly influenced by what others have successfully used in the past or by a particular school of thought (Atkins et al, 2008; Britten et al, 2002). This is a substantive limitation.
This book aims to bring balance to the options available to researchers, including approaches that have not had a substantial uptake among researchers. It provides arguments for when and why researchers or other parties of interest should opt for a certain approach to synthesis, which challenges they might face in adopting it and what the potential strengths and weaknesses are compared with other approaches.
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Creative Spaces for Qualitative Researching: Living Research
Joy Higgs, Angie Titchen, Debbie Horsfall, & Donna Bridges (Eds.)
This book looks inward at researchers who are seeking to live their research – to embody the principles, methodologies and ethical conduct that comprises their research strategies. And, it looks outward at the living world as the focus of qualitative research. From both perspectives the editors and authors of this book have created spaces for qualitative research that provide critical and creative frameworks for conducting and living their research. A variety of research voices and lives are illuminated, liberated and revealed in the book. There are five sections in the book:
Researching Living Practices
Doing Creative Research
Being a Creative Researcher
Co-Creating Qualitative Research in Creative Spaces
Becoming Transformed Through Creative Research.
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Social Network Analysis: History, Theory and Methodology
Christina Prell
We live in a world that is paradoxically both small and vast; each of us is embedded in local communities and yet we are only a few 'links' away from anyone else in the world.
This book represents these interdependencies' positive and negative consequences, their multiple effects and the ways in which a local occurrence in one part of the world can directly affect the rest. Then it discusses how these interactions and relationships form.
This is a book for the social network novice learning how to study, think about and analyse social networks; the intermediate user, not yet familiar with some of the newer developments in the field; and the teacher looking for a range of exercises, as well as a historical account of the field.
It is divided into three sections:
1. Historical & Background Concepts
2. Levels of Analysis
3. Advances, Extensions and Conclusions
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