Research category: 4571 books
Mixed Methods in Ethnographic Research
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Mixed Methods in Ethnographic Research: Historical Perspectives captures the dynamic history and development of mixed methods research in a narrative of personal discovery, growth, and experience. Distinguished ethnographer and methodologist Pertti Pelto, who first called for the integration of qualitative...
by M. Radhakrishna Pillai, Oommen V. Oommen
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Being a complex disease that affects millions of people world over, cancer research has assumed great significance. Translational cancer research transforms scientific discoveries in the laboratory or population studies into clinical application to reduce incidence of cancer , morbidity and mortality....
Critical Reflections on Research Methods
Power and Equity in Complex Multilingual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
This book explores the challenges and opportunities involved in conducting research with members of immigrant, refugee and other minoritized communities. Through first-hand reflective accounts, contributors explore community-based collaborative work, and suggest important implications for applied...
by Bryan J. Rooney, Annabel Ness Evans
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Methods in Psychological Research introduces students to the rich world of research in psychology through student-friendly writing, compelling real-world examples, and frequent opportunities for practice. Using a relaxed yet supportive tone that eases student anxiety, authors Bryan J. Rooney and Annabel...
Doing Qualitative Research in Psychology
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
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Taking you through each aspect of the research process and explaining the unique challenges of using qualitative methods in...
Protecting Research Confidentiality
What happens when law and ethics collide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Lawyers and their clients can talk in complete confidence, secure that the law protects what they say from being revealed to anyone. Priests can hear confessions with reasonable certainty that no court and no government will require them to speak of what they hear. But what about people who agree...
by Bruce A. Thyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
The art of writing up a completed research project in a format suitable for submission to a social work journal is an ability separate from ones skills as a research methodologist. It is also an ability that, despite its importance, is often overlooked by research courses and senior-level mentors. This...
by Jaynie L. Smith, Craig L. Mowrey, Mark Steisel
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Many companies lament that price pressure has destroyed their margins and market share. Sales people are often convinced that price is their only tiebreaker. This book will show you research that proves otherwise. When customers are surveyed in double-blind studies, we learn that price is not the...
by Michael Hyman, Jeremy Sierra
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
The tools you need to identify, obtain, record, and analyze data
Sure, access to data is faster and easier to obtain than ever before, but how do you cut through the clutter of information to find what's most useful and organize it to suit your purposes? Marketing Research Kit For Dummies supplies...
Qualitative Methods in Tourism Research
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
This volume seeks to expose and illustrate new approaches and thinking in qualitative methods that are being developed and implemented in tourism research. The contributions bring together various qualitative methods and approaches while also providing suggestions for the juxtaposition of qualitative...
Hearing (Our) Voices
Involving Service Users in Mental Health Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other on housing - carried out by a group of people diagnosed with schizophrenia under the guidance of Professor Barbara Schneider. Participants designed the...
Digital Ethnography
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
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This sharp, innovative book champions the rising significance of ethnographic research on the use of digital resources around the world. It contextualises digital and pre-digital ethnographic research and demonstrates how the methodological,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This is the first resource to provide a roadmap to develop a nursing research program in a complex hospital environment. Written by experienced researchers who have successfully implemented these techniques in the Cleveland Clinic, the handbook guides nurses in building and sustaining a research program—a...
Risk Management in Small-medium Enterprises (SMEs)
How does Risk Management in Small-medium Enterprise (SMEs) contribute to the Company's Financial Performance?
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: A14, University of Wolverhampton, language: English, abstract: This paper is proposing to research the influence of risk management on the financial performance of small-medium-sized enterprise...