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Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners

A Survival Guide

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Author:
Helen Kara

Brilliantly attuned to the demands placed on researchers, this book considers how students, academics and professionals alike can save time and stress without compromising the quality of their research or its outcomes.

Edition:
3
Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
31 Jan 2023
Online ISBN:
9781447366263
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447366263
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Introduction
2: Overview of research
3: Research and evaluation ethics
4: Methodologies, approaches and theories
5: Topics and proposals
6: Managing your research or evaluation project
7: Background research
8: Secondary data
9: Primary data collection: conventional methods
10: Primary data collection: creative methods
11: Quantitative data analysis
12: Qualitative data analysis
13: Writing for research and evaluation
14: Disseminating research and evaluation
15: How can research create positive change?
16: Conclusion
Back Matter
Job titles of interviewees
Sample record-keeping grid
Notes
References
Further reading
Glossary
Index

Research doesn’t exist in a bubble but co-exists with a multitude of other tasks and commitments, yet there is more need for people to save time than ever before.

Brilliantly attuned to the demands placed on researchers, this book considers how students, academics and professionals alike can save time and stress without compromising the quality of their research or its outcomes. This third edition:

- is fully revised with new chapters on research and evaluation ethics, creative methods of collecting data and how research can make a positive difference;

-includes illustrative case studies throughout the book and each chapter concludes with exercises, discussion questions and a debate topic;

- is accompanied by a fully updated companion website.

This supportive book is designed for any student or practitioner who wants to know how to do research on top of their main job and still have a life.

Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and writes and teaches on research methods and ethics. She is the author of Research Ethics in the Real World: Euro-Western and Indigenous Perspectives (Policy Press, 2018) and Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide (2nd edn, Policy Press, 2020). She is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. In 2015 Helen was the first fully independent researcher to be conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2023
Hardback ISBN:
9781447366270
Paperback ISBN:
9781447338413
ePub ISBN:
9781447338420
Online ISBN:
9781447366263
Page Extent:
293
Keywords:
research; evaluation; practitioner; student; creative methods; data collection; data analysis
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 4: Quality Education
Subject:
Social Research Methods and Research Practices, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods and Statistics, Social Research Methods
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