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Author Robson, Colin, author.
Title Real world research : a resource for users of social research methods in applied seetings / Colin Robson & Kieran McCartan.
Publisher Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : Wiley, [2016]
Copyright date ©2016
Edition Fourth Edition.


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Descript xxiii, 533 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Edition Fourth Edition.
Note Revised edition of Real world research, 2011.
Includes index.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Ways of using the book -- The main steps when carrying out a project -- Setting the scene -- Introduction -- Approaches to social research -- Planning : selecting a strategy -- Developing your ideas -- General design issues -- Desk-based research -- Fixed designs -- Flexible designs -- Multi-strategy (mixed methods) designs -- Designs for particular purposes: evaluation, action and change -- Ethical and political considerations -- Tactics : the methods of data collection -- Surveys and questionnaires -- Interviews and focus groups -- Tests and scales -- Observational methods -- Additional methods of data collection -- Writing a project proposal -- Carrying out the project -- Dealing with the data -- The analysis and interpretation of quantitative data -- The analysis and interpretation of qualitative data -- Reporting, disseminating and moving forward -- Appendix A: Using specialist software for quantitative analysis -- Appendix B: Using specialist software for qualitative analysis -- Glossary -- References and author index -- Subject index.
ISBN 9781118745236
111874523X
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Author Robson, Colin, author.
Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
Alt author McCartan, Kieran, 1980- author.
Descript xxiii, 533 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Edition Fourth Edition.
Note Revised edition of Real world research, 2011.
Includes index.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Ways of using the book -- The main steps when carrying out a project -- Setting the scene -- Introduction -- Approaches to social research -- Planning : selecting a strategy -- Developing your ideas -- General design issues -- Desk-based research -- Fixed designs -- Flexible designs -- Multi-strategy (mixed methods) designs -- Designs for particular purposes: evaluation, action and change -- Ethical and political considerations -- Tactics : the methods of data collection -- Surveys and questionnaires -- Interviews and focus groups -- Tests and scales -- Observational methods -- Additional methods of data collection -- Writing a project proposal -- Carrying out the project -- Dealing with the data -- The analysis and interpretation of quantitative data -- The analysis and interpretation of qualitative data -- Reporting, disseminating and moving forward -- Appendix A: Using specialist software for quantitative analysis -- Appendix B: Using specialist software for qualitative analysis -- Glossary -- References and author index -- Subject index.
ISBN 9781118745236
111874523X
Author Robson, Colin, author.
Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
Alt author McCartan, Kieran, 1980- author.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  H62 .R627  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  H62 .R627  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Psychology -- Research -- Methodology.
Descript xxiii, 533 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Note Revised edition of Real world research, 2011.
Includes index.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Ways of using the book -- The main steps when carrying out a project -- Setting the scene -- Introduction -- Approaches to social research -- Planning : selecting a strategy -- Developing your ideas -- General design issues -- Desk-based research -- Fixed designs -- Flexible designs -- Multi-strategy (mixed methods) designs -- Designs for particular purposes: evaluation, action and change -- Ethical and political considerations -- Tactics : the methods of data collection -- Surveys and questionnaires -- Interviews and focus groups -- Tests and scales -- Observational methods -- Additional methods of data collection -- Writing a project proposal -- Carrying out the project -- Dealing with the data -- The analysis and interpretation of quantitative data -- The analysis and interpretation of qualitative data -- Reporting, disseminating and moving forward -- Appendix A: Using specialist software for quantitative analysis -- Appendix B: Using specialist software for qualitative analysis -- Glossary -- References and author index -- Subject index.
Alt author McCartan, Kieran, 1980- author.
ISBN 9781118745236
111874523X
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