Reviews

Doing counselling research

While this book focuses primarily on conducting research in counselling and...

Understanding emotion at work

The book has many positive features though it does rely very much on UK and US...

Critical health psychology

This edited book provides a very useful introduction to contemporary ideas in...

Quality of life research: a critical introduction

Many books have been published on quality of life research in recent years, but few...

Introductory statistics

This is the fifth edition of this text, and it’s not difficult to see why it has...

Research design: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches

The second edition of Creswell’s book has been significantly revised and updated....

Social research methodology

The book begins with a very thorough overview of the topics discussed. These...

The landscape of qualitative research: theories and issues

This wide-reaching book sets out to describe the origin, practice and diversity of...

A researcher’s guide to the national statistics socio-economic classification

The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) was officially...

The handbook of narrative and psychotherapy: practice, theory and research

People have been telling their stories since time began and this book clearly...

Nursing research in context: appreciation, application and professional development

Let’s begin with what this book is not. This is, strictly speaking, not a ‘how to...

Doing and writing qualitative research

This book is a very useful addition to the literature on qualitative methods, and,...

Gender and qualitative methods

This book is part of a series of texts exploring specific aspects of qualitative...

reviews and round-up

A regular look at recent publications and forthcoming events, courses and...

Analyzing Soical Science Data

The primary focus of this book is the analysis of quantitative research data. As...

Ground rules for good research

This new book is aimed at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional students,...

Presentation skills

This book aims to help readers make the most of their presentation opportunities....

Learning from research: Getting more from your data

Before receiving this book to review, I had flicked through it in a bookshop while...

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