Description
Real World Research provides a clear route-map of the various steps needed to carry out a piece of applied research to a high professional standard. It is accessible to those without a social science background while providing rigorous and fully up-to-date coverage of contemporary issues and debates. It brings together materials and approaches from different social science disciplines, seeing value in both quantitative and qualitative approaches, as well as their combination in mixed-method designs.
Updated throughout, the third edition includes:
- A brand new chapter on multi-strategy designs
- Increased coverage of ethical issues
- A chapter on writing a project proposal
- Discussion of internet-based research - both as a research tool and as a subject for research
- Coverage of evidence-based approaches - seeking to present a balanced assessment of their value
Colin Robson's bestselling textbook is essential reading for many higher education courses, at both undergraduate, taught postgraduate and doctoral level, as well as practitioners and others carrying out a research project as part of their job. A very extensive website, which is closely keyed in to the text, provides additional resources including copious examples of research and further discussion of research issues, links to other useful resources and selected journal articles, annotated lists of further reading and an extensive set of PowerPoint slides.
About the Author
Colin Robson is a Professor in the Centres for Applied Childhood Studies and Evaluation Studies at Huddersfield University, and chief consultant to a major international project on the education of children with disabilities, difficulties and disadvantages, OECD, Paris. He is the author of How To Do A Research Project (Blackwell 2006).
Book Information
ISBN 9781405182416
Author Colin Robson
Format Hardback
Page Count 608
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 1304g
Dimensions(mm) 251mm * 181mm * 32mm
