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Sea-level research: a manual for the collection and evaluation of data
An editorial by Wanless (1982), entitled "Sea level is rising - so what?", tells the case of an executive editor of a major city newspaper, who, when confronted with evi dence for a recent sea-level rise, replied: "That just means the ocean is six inches deeper, doesn't it?". Whether his "so what?" attitude was real or put on to dike a threat of sensation, there is at present a wide and deepening interest in ongoing and future global sea-level change. This interest has grown along with the concern over global warming due to increasing levels of C02 and trace gases. A stage has been reached where investigators of climat- sea-level relationships call for long-term measurement programmes for ice-volume changes (using satellite altimetry) and changes in temperature and salinity of the oceans (ther mal expansion). This manual, however, is primarily concerned with sea level changes in the past, mainly since the end of the last glaciation. Its major objective is to help answer the ques tion: "how?", which, of course, is little else but to assist in the gathering of fuel for the burning question: "why?" Good fuel, hopefully, for the less smoke and ashes, and the more heat and light produced by that fire, the better scientists are enabled to develop a quantitative under standing of past, and hence of future, sea-level changes on different spatial and temporal scales.
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Collective Goods and Higher Education Research
With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning. In taking this approach, the author presents new tools of analysis—borrowed from cognitive science, economics, data analytics, education technology and measurement science—to investigate higher education’s place in society as a public or private good. By showing how these tools can be utilized to re-orient current research, this volume offers scholars and policy makers an argument for the large-scale use of scientific and economic approaches to higher education’s most pressing issues.
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Advanced Research Methodologies and Practices
This comprehensive textbook is designed to equip researchers, academics, and students with the essential tools and knowledge needed to conduct advanced research across various disciplines.The book addresses crucial aspects of research dissemination and publication, offering insights into scholarly writing, manuscript preparation, and the peer review process, empowering researchers to effectively communicate their findings and contribute to their respective fields. It covers salient topics such as formulating research questions, designing research studies, and selecting appropriate research methodologies. It emphasizes the importance of rigorous and ethical research practices and explores strategies for conducting literature reviews and synthesizing existing knowledge. It also delves into advanced quantitative and qualitative research methods, offering detailed explanations of statistical analyses, data collection techniques, and sampling strategies.Throughout the book, real-world examples, case studies, and practical exercises are integrated to enhance understanding and application of the concepts discussed to equip the readers with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to push the boundaries of knowledge and make a lasting impact. It will serve as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, academics, and industry professionals seeking to enhance their research skills and elevate the quality and impact of their scholarly work.
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Data Collection Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
The successful collection of data is a key challenge to obtaining reliable and valid results in applied linguistics research. Data Collection Research Methods in Applied Linguistics investigates how research is conducted in the field, encompassing the challenges and obstacles applied linguists face in collecting good data. The book explores frequently used data collection techniques, including: * interviews and focus groups * observations* stimulated recall and think aloud protocols * data elicitation tasks * corpus methods * questionnaires * validated tests and measures Each chapter focuses on one type of data collection, outlining key concepts, threats to reliability and validity, procedures for good data collection, and implications for researchers. The chapters also include exemplary research projects, showcasing and explaining for readers how the technique was used to collect data in a successfully published study. This book is an essential resource for both novice and experienced applied linguists tackling data collection techniques for the first time.
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Advanced Research Methodologies and Practices
This comprehensive textbook is designed to equip researchers, academics, and students with the essential tools and knowledge needed to conduct advanced research across various disciplines.The book addresses crucial aspects of research dissemination and publication, offering insights into scholarly writing, manuscript preparation, and the peer review process, empowering researchers to effectively communicate their findings and contribute to their respective fields. It covers salient topics such as formulating research questions, designing research studies, and selecting appropriate research methodologies. It emphasizes the importance of rigorous and ethical research practices and explores strategies for conducting literature reviews and synthesizing existing knowledge. It also delves into advanced quantitative and qualitative research methods, offering detailed explanations of statistical analyses, data collection techniques, and sampling strategies.Throughout the book, real-world examples, case studies, and practical exercises are integrated to enhance understanding and application of the concepts discussed to equip the readers with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to push the boundaries of knowledge and make a lasting impact. It will serve as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, academics, and industry professionals seeking to enhance their research skills and elevate the quality and impact of their scholarly work.
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Essays on Research Methodology
The book presents a collection of essays addressing a perceived need for persistent and logical thinking, critical reasoning, rigor and relevance on the part of researchers pursuing their doctorates. Accordingly, eminent experts have come together to consider these significant aspects of the research process, which result in different knowledge claims in different fields or subject areas. An attempt has been made to find a common denominator across diverse management disciplines, so that the broadest range of researchers can benefit from the book. The topics have been carefully chosen to cover problem formulation, contextualizing, soft & hard modeling, qualitative and quantitative analysis and ethical issues, in addition to the design of experiments and survey-based research.The distinguishing feature of this book is that it recognizes the diverse backgrounds of scholars from different interdisciplinary areas as well as their varying needs with regard to modeling, observations, measurements, aggregation, data analyses, etc. After all, researchers are expected to deepen our understanding, expand on existing information, introduce fresh insights, present new evidence and/or disprove accepted theories, hypotheses etc. More importantly, the book cautions against the over-reliance on software packages and mechanical interpretation of results based on the size, sign and significance of the coefficients obtained. Instead, the focus is on the underlying theories, hypotheses and relationships and on establishing new ones. In doing so, due care is taken to clearly enunciate what exactly constitutes a knowledge claim and what is methodology as distinct from methods, tools and techniques.
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Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology
This comprehensive book provides a review across methodological approaches and data-collection methods commonly used with older adults in real-life settings. It addresses the role of normative age-related sensory, cognitive, and functional changes, as well as the influence of generational cohort (age-period-cohort).Fully updated, this second edition reflects recent changes in gerontology and includes more information about equity, diversity and inclusion; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the use of virtual research methods; discussion about the researcher’s reflexivity; the role of theory in research; qualitative research developments; an expansion of secondary analysis of data;and the use of artificial intelligence in research.Features include:Descriptions, evaluations, and applications of a wide range of methodological approaches and methods used to collect data about older persons (quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and emergent methods: photovoice, virtual environments, etc.)Ways to match research questions to selection of method without a preconceived methodological preference or dominanceReal-world and applied examples along with cases from the gerontological literature"How to" sections about reading output/software reports and qualitative-analysis screenshots (from NVivo) and quantitative (SPSS) output and interpretationPedagogical tools in every chapter such as text boxes, case studies, definitions of key terms, discussion questions, and references for further reading on chapter topicsGlossary of key terms, complete sample research report, and an overview of past methodological research design work in gerontologyThis text is intended for upper-level undergraduates and masters students in aging and gerontology as well as students in human development, applied anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, and social work settings. Healthcare professionals, social workers, and care managers who work with older adults will also find this text a valuable resource.At www.routledge.com/cw/weil instructors will find PowerPoint presentations, additional discussion questions, suggestions for in-class activities and assessments and a sample syllabus; and students will find flashcards based on glossary terms, a downloadable copy of the sample research report in the text, links to data sets, related websites, online videos and podcasts, further reading, select gerontological journals and multiple choice and true or false questions.
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Cross Section of Psychological Research
First Published in 2006. This book is designed for students who are learning how to evaluate published psychological research. The 41 research articles in this collection provide the stimulus material for such a course.
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Research Imagination
The idea that science is a blueprint for research, and imagination gives research its life and purpose inspired this comprehensive explanation of research methodology. The authors' decades of experience have revealed that research is a craft requiring judgment and creativity, not simply memorization and application of the rules of science. Whether one is conducting an intimate one-on-one interview or a large-scale examination of an entire society, human imagination and scientific principles of inquiry go hand in hand. To that end, this book emphasizes scientific method, but also acknowledges its critics. It covers a wide variety of data-collection techniques, but presents them as reinforcing rather than competing with one another, thus striking a balance between qualitative and quantitative methods. It is designed for students and instructors who want a comprehensive treatment of a variety of research techniques with special emphasis on qualitative approaches.
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Cross Section of Educational Research
• This collection of research articles emphasizes topics of interest to classroom teachers. • The 38 research articles illustrate: •survey research•quantitative content analysis•correlational research•true experimental research•quasi-experimental research•pre-experimental research•single-subject research/behavior analysis•causal-comparative research•program evaluation•qualitative research•combined qualitative/quantitative research•meta-analysis• The lines in each article are numbered sequentially, making it easy to refer to specific parts of the article during classroom discussions. • The availability of a single source of research articles is convenient and helps you avoid copyright infringement problems. • Factual Questions at the end of each article allow students to check their comprehension. • Questions for discussion stimulate classroom discussions of research methods. • After answering the questions, students rate the quality of each article using 13 basic criteria. More detailed criteria in the Appendix may also be applied. • Ideal for courses in which the primary goal is to learn how to evaluate research. • Twenty-one different journals are represented in the 38 articles in this collection. Students see the diversity of educational research since the journals vary in their standards for publication. • New to this edition: Thirteen new articles keep this popular research reader up-to-date.
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Research Methods for the Marginalized
This edited volume explores how to effectively and ethically conduct social science research and work with marginalized and vulnerable populations.Many researchers find themselves unprepared for the challenges of studying or working with populations that may be outside their personal expectations and experiences, affecting their ability to accurately represent the lived experiences of marginalized and vulnerable communities. Written by a diverse group of international scholars within the fields of strategic communication and communication studies, this volume provides real-world insights from researchers who not only have direct experience working with marginalized populations, but many of whom are members of these communities. Imperatives include critical lessons for access and accessibility in research. Contributors draw on their own studies to guide readers through the main phases of research, including study design, data collection, and data analysis.The volume is especially suited as a supplementary text for researchers and students studying qualitative research methods in strategic communication and communication studies.
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Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition)
The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technology followed for decades afterward. Although he pioneered inventions like alternating current (AC), radio, wireless transmission, and X-rays, and worked with innovators like George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison, the once-celebrated Tesla was later largely forgotten by history. This beautiful leatherbound edition brings together many of the findings and theories that made this genius famous (and to some, infamous), showing not only the scope of Nikola Tesla's theories and inventions, but allowing contemporary readers to experience the visionary range of his thinking. In addition to its many detailed reproductions of Tesla's patents and inventions, this highly collectible book includes dozens of thought-provoking lectures and articles. The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla affords a rare glimpse of a true genius at work.
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Post-1945 Art Collections and Regional Research Networks
Taking a consciously regional perspective, this volume evaluates the mechanisms and motivations that underpin collaborations between higher education and public art galleries in the Midlands and Northwest of England.Presenting a series of case studies of collaborative projects undertaken by the co-authors, the chapters argue for the importance of developing equitable and sustainable partnerships across sectors, setting mutual long-term goals, the respectful articulation of respective priorities, and identifying shared ethical values. These proposed ideal conditions, developed through collaborative practice, are framed by, and rooted in, specific regional contexts of exhibition production and spectatorship, museum funding, the civic function of universities, and local art histories and cultural identities. The authors show how co-produced research can harness regionally-rooted expertise to intervene in nationally-relevant debates around British cultural histories and identities, as well as contribute to the broader discourse around regional practice and collaboration.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and curatorial studies.
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African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and the Social Sciences
African Philosophy and its Association with Psychology and the Social Sciences is a symposium of leading voices addressing philosophical questions and considerations that psychological and other forms of social science research and practice raise.In doing so, it offers a unique introduction to the philosophical understanding of the methods of social science research from the perspective of a range of African philosophers. There are many features of predominantly qualitative research that will be presented and considered in this book forming a repository of African philosophical writings that consider the nature and processes involved in qualitative, psychological, and social science research. The questions address include, but are not limited to, fundamental metaphysical questions, questions about the nature of the data or information that will be gathered and how this is collected, the types of enquiries being engaged and the form those enquiries may take, the position of the researcher within the research process coupled with reflexivity. African Philosophy and Psychology in Social Science is an up-to-date collection of essays on the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences from the perspective of philosophy that has developed and exists in Africa.This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in psychology, African studies, philosophy and social science.
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Higher Education Research Methodology
With new chapters and updated content throughout, this second edition of Higher Education Research Methodology is an essential guide to systematic inquiry into higher education. Providing practical and theoretical guidance for students, topics covered include ontology and epistemology, as well as research design approaches and methods of data collection. New to this edition are two brand new chapters on conceptual and theoretical frameworks, and research justification, as well as a comprehensive revision of the chapter on engaging with academic literature. Throughout the book there is a keen focus on quality in both the analysis and evaluation of research and new models are proposed to help the new researcher. The authors provide advice as well as constructive critique of research methods and, in turn, offer a new contribution to the theories of research methodology. Looking beyond the immediate higher education environment, the book concludes by examining the challenges of getting work published and providing guidance on how to do this successfully.Thoroughly revised, this new edition of Higher Education Research Methodology will be of interest to postgraduate students, academic developers and experienced academics from a wide variety of disciplines.
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Rethinking Research
This groundbreaking volume demands a fundamental rethinking of how research is conducted with—and accountable to—communities. Moving beyond institutional compliance and procedural checklists, the work calls for an ethics grounded in responsibility, reciprocity, and knowledge sovereignty, challenging researchers to reimagine their relationships with research participants and communities.Bringing together Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and land-based perspectives, the contributors confront the colonial and extractive logics that continue to shape mainstream research ethics. They advocate for relational accountability, continuous consent, and shared decision-making as essential foundations for just and transformative scholarship. Through personal decolonization narratives, critiques of institutional ethics boards, and practical frameworks for community-led governance, this book equips scholars, community organizers, and policymakers with concrete strategies to dismantle power imbalances and foster equitable research partnerships.Essential reading for anyone committed to research as a tool for justice rather than extraction, Rethinking Research offers a radical vision of scholarship that centers community voices and collective well-being.
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Doing Feminist Research with Texts
This festschrift honours the work of Liz Stanley, whose scholarship has been highly influential in opening new paths in feminist research across the human sciences. Bringing together contributions from scholars shaped by her thinking, the volume reflects both on the intellectual reach of her work and on its continuing capacity to inspire feminist inquiry.The chapters engage with key strands of Stanley’s intellectual legacy, including feminist epistemologies, the auto/biographical I, letters and correspondences, the epistolarium, and her concept of archigraphics as a way of opening the “black box” of the archive. Through a wide range of studies, contributors explore her challenge to mainstream sociology, her distinctive approach to feminist research with texts, her foundational role in auto/biography studies, her systematic analysis of letters and correspondences, and her pioneering work on archives, temporality, and the writing of history. Collectively, the contributions trace an intellectual lineage and demonstrate the enduring relevance and generative power of Stanley’s scholarship across disciplines.This volume is intended for scholars and postgraduate students in the social sciences and humanities, particularly those working in feminist theory, qualitative methods, archival studies, auto/biography, and the sociology of knowledge.
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Unpacking Sensitive Research
The term ‘sensitive research’ is applied to a wide range of issues and settings. It is used to denote projects that may involve risk to people, stigmatising topics, and/or require a degree of sensitivity on behalf of the researcher. Rather than take the notion of ‘sensitive research’ for granted, this collection unpacks and challenges what the term means. This book is a collective endeavour to reflect on research practices around ‘sensitive research’, providing in-depth explorations about what this label means to different researchers, how it is done – including the need to be sensitive as a researcher – and what impacts this has on methods and knowledge creation. The book includes chapters from researchers who have explored a diverse range of research topics, including sex and sexuality, death, abortion, and learning disabilities, from several disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, anthropology, health services research and interdisciplinary work. The researchers included here collectively argue that current approaches fail to adequately account for the complex mix of emotions, experiences, and ethical dilemmas at the heart of many ‘sensitive’ research encounters. Overall, this book moves the field of ‘sensitive research’ beyond the genericity of this label, showing ways in which researchers have in practice addressed the methodological threats that are triggered when we uncritically embark on ‘sensitive research'. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology and the journal Mortality.
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Research Methods for the Marginalized
This edited volume explores how to effectively and ethically conduct social science research and work with marginalized and vulnerable populations.Many researchers find themselves unprepared for the challenges of studying or working with populations that may be outside their personal expectations and experiences, affecting their ability to accurately represent the lived experiences of marginalized and vulnerable communities. Written by a diverse group of international scholars within the fields of strategic communication and communication studies, this volume provides real-world insights from researchers who not only have direct experience working with marginalized populations, but many of whom are members of these communities. Imperatives include critical lessons for access and accessibility in research. Contributors draw on their own studies to guide readers through the main phases of research, including study design, data collection, and data analysis.The volume is especially suited as a supplementary text for researchers and students studying qualitative research methods in strategic communication and communication studies.
R 1,980.93
Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies
Social scientists have long relied on a wide range of tools to collect information about the social world, but as individual fields have become more specialised, researchers are trained to use a narrow range of the possible data collection methods. This book, first published in 2006, draws on a broad range of available social data collection methods to formulate a set of data collection approaches. The approaches described here are ideal for social science researchers who plan to collect new data about people, organisations, or social processes. Axinn and Pearce present methods designed to create a comprehensive empirical description of the subject being studied, with an emphasis on accumulating the information needed to understand what causes what with a minimum of error. In addition to providing methodological motivation and underlying principles, the book is filled with detailed instructions and concrete examples for those who wish to apply the methods to their research.
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Research Methodology in the Built Environment
Built environment students are not always familiar with the range of different research approaches they could be using for their projects. Whether you are undertaking a postgraduate doctoral programme or facing an undergraduate or masters dissertation, this book provides general advice, as well as 13 detailed case studies from 16 universities in 7 countries, to help you get to grips with quantitative and qualitative methods, mixed methods of data collection, action research, and more.
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Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color, Volume 2
This volume serves as a companion to Early Psychological Research Contributions from Women of Color Volume I (Grahe, Ceynar, & Mason, 2023). It focuses on the dissertations of 20 builders-women of color who earned their doctoral degrees in psychology prior to 1990 and who were builders in the field through her leadership or innovation.The first chapter bridges the two volumes. Each subsequent chapter summarizes and examines a dissertation using a consistent format including: a biographical sketch of the builder with an emphasis on her significant contribution to an organization or innovation that moved the field forward, a summary of the dissertation, a reproducibility critique of the dissertation, an alternative framework section which analyzes the dissertation from a modern theoretical perspective or methodological approach (e.g., feminist theory, liberation psychology, mestiza consciousness, etc.). The topics cover the breadth of the discipline of psychology including physiological, cognitive, developmental, social, clinical. Some topics are also relevant to business, education, medicine, and social work. The varying nature of these dissertations allows the book to be used to augment coursework either as a complete collection or as individual chapters.This volume is intended for both instructors and students. The course activities provide examples of how to integrate key aspects of the dissertation research into the classroom. The volume was written with upper level undergraduate students in mind so that it could be used across the psychology curriculum, but the editors envision this book as a potential graduate level text as well.
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Rethinking Research
This groundbreaking volume demands a fundamental rethinking of how research is conducted with—and accountable to—communities. Moving beyond institutional compliance and procedural checklists, the work calls for an ethics grounded in responsibility, reciprocity, and knowledge sovereignty, challenging researchers to reimagine their relationships with research participants and communities.Bringing together Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and land-based perspectives, the contributors confront the colonial and extractive logics that continue to shape mainstream research ethics. They advocate for relational accountability, continuous consent, and shared decision-making as essential foundations for just and transformative scholarship. Through personal decolonization narratives, critiques of institutional ethics boards, and practical frameworks for community-led governance, this book equips scholars, community organizers, and policymakers with concrete strategies to dismantle power imbalances and foster equitable research partnerships.Essential reading for anyone committed to research as a tool for justice rather than extraction, Rethinking Research offers a radical vision of scholarship that centers community voices and collective well-being.
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