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Book SynopsisThis international and interdisciplinary collection gathers stories from researchers and research students about their methodological encounters with critical realism. Whether the contributors are experienced or novice researchers, they are predominantly new to critical realism. For various reasons, as the contributors' detail, they have all been drawn to critical realism. It is well known that critical realism can be bewildering and even overwhelming to newcomers, especially to those unfamiliar with language of, and without a grounding in, philosophy. While there are now numerous and important introductory and applied critical realist texts that make critical realism more accessible to a broader audience, stories from newcomers have been absent especially as part of a single collection. The significance and uniqueness of this collection lies in its documentation of first-hand reflective insights on the practical use and implementation of critical realisTable of ContentsCHAPTER 1 Introduction: Journeys Through Critical Realism Alpesh Maisuria and Grant BanfieldCHAPTER 2 A Detective, Physicist and Historian Walk into a Bar: Abduction, Retroduction and Retrodiction in Critical Realist EvaluationsDidier Boost, Björn Blom & Peter Raeymaeckers CHAPTER 3 Bridging the Gap Between Philosophy and Empirical Research: A Critical Realist Methodology Using Quantitative MethodsCatherine HastingsCHAPTER 4 Parent Engagement in Student Learning: Using Critical Realism to Uncover the Generative Mechanisms Needed for Teachers to Embrace Parent Engagement in their Teaching PracticeCatherine QuinnCHAPTER 5 On the Anti-Imperialist Possibilities of Critical RealismOmar KaissiCHAPTER 6 Cobbling Together Methods for a Coherent Critical Realist Methodology: Searching for MechanismsBree WeizeneggerCHAPTER 7 A Critical Realist Perspective on the 'Quality and Reform Dance' in the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) Sector: The Road Less TravelledDeborah JohnsonCHAPTER 8 The Utility of Critical Realism in Indigenous ResearchCassandra Diamond CHAPTER 9 The Spatiality of School Choice – A Critical Realist Quantitative Geography of Education?Anna-Maria Fjellman CHAPTER 10 Real Men, Real Violence: Critical Realism and the Search for the Masculine SubjectBen Wadham CHAPTER 11 The Critical Realist Toolkit Ellenah MackieCHAPTER 12 Journeys to Critical Realism: A Conversation about Spirituality, Love and Human EmancipationLoretta Geuenich, Celina Valente, and Grant Banfield CHAPTER 13 (A kind of) Conclusion – Against Full-Stops and Bookends? Alpesh Maisuria and Grant BanfieldINDEX

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Book SynopsisReimagining Research centers antiracist research practices and showcases real-world research in counseling practice. The book focuses on the research competencies that matter most to counselors, with each chapter co-authored by practicing counselors and counselor educators. Each chapter reflects diversity in authorship and opens with a potential for practice case study that illustrates a research-related challenge in the practice of counseling. Online resources-including a focus group interview, sample transcripts of qualitative interviews, video demonstrations of statistical techniques, and other documents used in research processes-present these potentials for practice in experiential ways. Chapters close with attention to resources that are readily available for counselors who want to implement these practices, such as evidence-based practice guidelines, open-access journals, and open-access statistical tools.Trade Review"This is a refreshing text that stares the diversity dearth and disparity in counseling research in the face. Our organization is pleased to see a research text that effectively addresses the rapidly advancing diversity of society in educating this current generation of upcoming counselors."Tamara F. N. Ferebee, MEd, LPC, ACS, co-founder, National Association of Black Counselors, Inc. "This book is one of a kind! Finally, a research textbook that centers social justice, is user-friendly, and ensures that every chapter is relevant to master's-level practicing counselors. The experiential nature of the book brings the material to life. I recommend it most highly!"Dr. Emmanuel Ahia, director, MA in clinical mental health counseling, Rider UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction to Research 2. Diversity and Inclusion in Research 3. Ethics in Research 4. Reviewing Literature and Writing Reports 5. Becoming an Informed Consumer of Research: Deconstructing Research Articles and Integrating Evidence-Based Practice 6. Descriptive Statistics 7. Single Subject Design 8. Thematic Analysis 9. Survey Research and Needs Assessment 10. Program Evaluation 11. Action Research 12. Statistical Thinking 13. Giving Voice to Research in Your Practice: Clinical and Educational Implications

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Book SynopsisArts-Based Research Methods for Educational Researchers is a book for early-career and established scholars who aim to use the arts to spark new ideas and empower participants in educational research. It will allow readers to conduct arts-based research in their own projects.The book starts with a brief history of the arts in research, going on to provide an in-depth understanding of the philosophical foundations of arts-based research â different research designs, material preparation, ethical considerations, data collection, analysis and reporting. Chapters highlight the impact of arts-based research, how it can be used to facilitate positive changes in educational research, practice, and policymaking. Tian suggests avenues for those who want to further develop these methods, guiding readers to reflect on their positionality and ethical issues involved in the research process.This insightful book is ideal for early career and experienced edTrade Review‘This book offers a passionate and persuasive case for using arts-based research methods in educational research. Filled with many different practical examples it shows how arts-based methods extend the repertoire of research approaches and open new research routes for attending to relationships, affects, bodies and language. In showing how arts-based methods help promote rigour in research, contribute to decolonising knowledge, shift hierarchies of knowledge-power relations, and inform policy making, it makes an important argument for arts-based methods as a form of research activism.’Carol A. Taylor, Professor of Higher Education and Gender, University of Bath, UK‘Based on the author’s ‘hands-on’ experience, this book provides a much-needed, accessible text on the power and possibilities of arts-based methods. It explores their transformative potential and how they can facilitate the agency of research participants and reframe power relationships. Whilst shining a light on the value of arts-based methods, Dr Tian does not shy away from exploring controversies and risks that researchers need to be aware of in using these methods. The result is an invaluable text for those new to and for those experienced in arts-based methods.’Philip A. Woods, Professor of Educational Policy, Democracy and Leadership, University of Hertfordshire, UK‘Exactly the kind of critically oriented, unique, and insightful book that set the stage for Art-based Research Methods for Educational Researchers grounded on enriching articulation of both ontology, epistemology, and vast research close-to-practice in using this methodology as a form of advocacy and activism. This deep, comprehensive, solid, and thorough foundational book is highly recommended for instructors, postgraduate students, and practitioners alike for a deeper understanding and use of art-based educational research.’Khalid Arar, Professor of Education and Community Leadership, Texas State University, USA.Table of Contents1. A New Way of Seeing and Conducting Educational Research 2. Ontological, Epistemological, and Axiological Foundations 3. Research Designs, Preparation, and Ethical Considerations 4. Research rigour and data collection 5. Reporting, interpreting, and discussing findings 6. Impact of arts-based research methods and controversies surrounding them 7. Future development and conclusion

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Book SynopsisArts-Based Research Methods for Educational Researchers is a book for early-career and established scholars who aim to use the arts to spark new ideas and empower participants in educational research. It will allow readers to conduct arts-based research in their own projects.The book starts with a brief history of the arts in research, going on to provide an in-depth understanding of the philosophical foundations of arts-based research different research designs, material preparation, ethical considerations, data collection, analysis and reporting. Chapters highlight the impact of arts-based research, how it can be used to facilitate positive changes in educational research, practice, and policymaking. Tian suggests avenues for those who want to further develop these methods, guiding readers to reflect on their positionality and ethical issues involved in the research process.This insightful book is ideal for early career and exper

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Book SynopsisHistory reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve lifeâs paradoxes. But what if these attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life?Contrary to the supposedly sublime linear logic that underpins our prevalent modes of theoretical and empirical enquiry, in this fascinating book, organizational anthropologist Tom Vine charts the pervasiveness of paradox across the academy: from arithmetic to zoology. In so doing, he reflects on the concept of paradox as a widespread existential âpatternâ, a pattern which holds significant metatheoretical and pedagogical potential. Paradoxes, he argues, are not inconveniences or âfault lines in our common-sense worldâ but are coded into our very existence. Paradoxes thus present their own vital logics that shape our lives: they thwart moral and ideological uniformity; they even out subjective experience between âthe havesâ and âthe have notsâ; and they shed light on the opaque concepts of consciousness and agency.This book will appeal to anybody with a curious mind, particularly scholars and students with an interest in one or more of the following: complexity theory, critical pedagogies, ethnography, nonlinear dynamics, organization theory, and systems theory.Trade Review‘In this lively, eclectic and consistently stimulating book, Tom Vine identifies the remarkable prevalence of paradox in human life and offers a spirited defence of embracing its peculiar logic. Against the conventional wisdom of means-ends reasoning and calculative rationality, Vine argues that paradox reveals fractures in our common-sense that we would do well to explore and exacerbate rather than eradicate or resolve. Taking an ethnographic, transdisciplinary, wide angle view, Vine’s primary focus is the lived experience of paradox: our counterintuitive tendency to embrace contrary positions and the unfathomable longing to act against our own best interests. In a world that is being re-contoured by rapid advances in artificial intelligence and information technology, Tom Vine’s book is an ardent appeal to the humanising power of paradox.’Jill Marsden, Professor of Literature and Philosophy, University of Bolton, UK‘This book represents the active and loving embrace of paradox in art, society, organization, nature and ontology but it also (paradoxically) describes the relationship between author and textual material as grappling, staggering, discombobulating and thorny. Take paradox away from the thinker and you have the tame professor yet (paradoxically) to outwit paradox would be accepting a Faustian pact. Paradox is a vague rule of sociology wherein (paradoxically) there is no universally accepted rule book on anything. Vine has produced a text that is both broad and deep, where we are allowed to see paradox at work, everywhere and at every time. It forcibly opens our eyes just as the reader might want to blink and slink back into a less-pressing, logical and linear comfortableness. It is to be highly commended for its smooth disruptiveness.’Gibson Burrell, Professor of Organization Theory, University of Manchester, UK ‘In this important and wide-ranging book Tom Vine makes a strong case for the unique human capacity to entertain one thing and its opposite at the same time. He demonstrates how this is not a result of flawed thinking, but is crucial for exploring complex experience. Vine shows us how paradoxical thinking manifests in the full range of human activity; from art to science, and from pedagogy to the ethics involved in navigating between competing goods.’Christopher Mowles, Professor of Complexity and Management, University of Hertfordshire, UK 'This book is both stimulatingly provocative and deeply questioning of much of the literature on the bureaucratic phenomenon. Tom Vine advances a Deleuzian perspective on bureaucracy as an ‘emergent and immanent force’ in late modernism. Repetitive and recurrent ‘differences’ within and across its operational planes require life-skills in their positive resolution. In presenting his arguments he draws from a wide range of alternative perspectives.'Ray Loveridge, Professor Emeritus, Aston University, UK'Tom Vine's erudite and engagingly personal reexamination of bureaucracy offers compelling alternatives to the familiar debate on 'post-bureaucracy' and the pejorative caricatures of bureaucracy in popular management literature. Rather than arguing for or against bureaucracy, Dr Vine's unique approach is to ask how people in organisations experience, navigate and make sense of this phenomenon. He combines autoethnography, literary criticism and expansive scholarship to develop a phenomenology of bureaucracy. Written with refreshing style and a colourful wit, his book offers invaluable insights for the critical study of contemporary organisations.'Dr Samuel Mansell, University of St Andrews, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I: The Pervasiveness of Paradox; 2. Paradox and Art; 3. Paradox and Society; 4. Paradox and Organization; 5. Paradox and Nature; 6. Paradox and Ontology; Part II: The Pedagogical Potential for Paradox; 7. Pedagogical Logic I: Paradox Thwarts Moral Closure; 8. Pedagogical Logic II: Paradox Elicits Egalitarian Inertia; 9. Pedagogical Logic III: Paradox Augments Understanding of Agency; 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book makes mass communication research projects more accessible to the new student researcher through a balance between an academically rigorous guide and an informal and humorous student-centered approach. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Getting Started Chapter 2 Finding a Research Topic You Like Chapter 3 Determining Your Research Approach Chapter 4 Thinking Ethically Chapter 5 Writing a Literature Review Chapter 6 Writing a Research Question and Hypothesis Chapter 7 Choosing a Research Method Chapter 8 The Results Chapter 9 Writing the Discussion Section Chapter 10 Formatting the Paper Chapter 11 Presenting Your Research

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Book SynopsisCurrently, most books on youth research available on the market focus on how to' conduct youth research or the research process itself. This edited collection proposes to take this process a step further and discuss the complexities of youth research from a practical and theoretical context.In total, five themes are examined conceptualising young people, ethics and consent, the digital, voice, participation and unexpected tensions. In this book, authors from six countries explore the complexities of researching with young people across disciplines and national contexts.Offering a closeup examination of their own research experiences, the authors address the complexities of researching with young people beyond simple questions of protection from harm and coercion by problematising notions of resilience', participation', risk' and voice'. This edited collection takes the reader through an exploration of its key themes and, in doing so, presents a casTable of Contents1. Complexities of Researching with Young People: Conceptualising Key Issues; 2. Researching the Lives of Young Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: Creating Culturally Sensitive Methods and Theory; 3. Doing Research in Organisations: Implications of the Different Definitions of Youth; 4. They Look Before They Leap: Conceptualising Young People as Digitally Competent Risk-Takers, and its Implications for Ethical Internet Research; 5. Critical Reflections: Merits of Using Youth-Centric Technology in Keeping Young People Safe Across Europe; 6. Digital Modes of Data Collection in Mixed-Methods Longitudinal Youth Research; 7. Revealing Intimacy through Digital Media: Young People, Digital Culture and New Research Perspectives; 8. Researching Young People’s Experiences: An African-Centred Perspective of Consent and Ethics; 9. Working with Complexity: Between Control and Care in Digital Research Ethics; 10. Informed Consent as a Situated Research Process in an Ethnography of Incarcerated Youth in Denmark; 11. The Undue Burden of Methodological Warrant on the Voice of Disengaged Young People; 12. Critically Examining Participation, Power, Ethics, and the Co-construction of Knowledge in a Community-Based Photovoice Research Project with LGBTQ Former Foster Youth; 13. Participation, Positionality and Power: Critical Moments in Research with Service-Engaged Youth; 14. Participatory Research and Political Ecology: An Evaluation of Research with Young Syrian Refugees in Turkey; 15. Youth in Voice: The Concept of Voice; 16. How Contradictory Friendships Disrupted My Study of Working-Class Girls’ Residential Instability; 17. The Multicultural Youth Australia Census: Reading Complexity and Migrant Youth Citizenship into Survey Methods; 18. The Pressures of Building Reciprocal Relationships in an Intergenerational Research Team.

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Book SynopsisResearch Methods and Statistics in Psychology provides students with the most readable and comprehensive survey of research methods, statistical concepts and procedures in psychology today. Assuming no prior knowledge, this bestselling text takes you through every stage of your research project, giving advice on planning and conducting studies, analysing data and writing up reports, both quantitative and qualitative. It incorporates diversity and includes a large section on cross-cultural psychology methods and issues.The book continues its long tradition of integrating qualitative issues into methods chapters as well as providing two chapters dedicated to qualitative methods. It provides clear coverage of experimental, interviewing and observational methods; psychological testing; and statistical procedures which include nominal-level tests, ordinal and interval two-condition tests, simple and multi-factorial ANOVA designs, correlation, multiple regression, log lineTable of ContentsPreface, Acknowledgements, Part 1. Research methods and ethics, 1. Psychology, science and research, 2. Measuring people – variables, samples and the qualitative critique, 3. Experiments and experimental designs in psychology, 4. Validity in psychological research, 5. Quasi-experiments and non-experiments, 6. Observational methods – watching and being with people, 7. Interview methods – asking people direct questions, 8. Psychological tests and measurement scales, 9. Comparison studies – cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies, 10. Qualitative approaches in psychology, 11. Ethical issues in psychological research, Part 2. Analysing data and writing reports, 12. Analysing qualitative data, 13. Statistics – organising the data, 14. Graphical representation of data, 15. Frequencies and distributions, 16. Significance testing – was it a real effect?, 17. Testing for differences between two samples, 18. Tests for categorical variables and frequency tables, 19. Correlation, 20. Regression methods, 21. Factor analysis, 22. Multi-level analysis – differences between more than two conditions (ANOVA), 23. Multi-factorial ANOVA designs, 24. ANOVA for repeated measures designs, 25. Choosing a significance test for your data, 26. Planning your practical and writing up your report, Appendix, References, Index

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Book SynopsisWhen evaluating the success of an organization, the value of employees' organizational commitment and the process of knowledge sharing among staff must be considered. As illustrated in this volume, these two concepts are key conditions for organizational success in the contemporary world. This book explores the concept of organizational commitment, what it is, and how to use and understand the value in knowledge management and sharing for both employees and organizations as a whole. A profound analysis of the global literature exposes organizational commitment and knowledge sharing as key determinants of the effectiveness of the organization management process, including human capital management. While much space in the literature on the subject is devoted to the exploration of the above-mentioned concepts, treated as categories subject to separate analysis, the diagnosis and analysis of the relationship between them should be treated as a poorly recognized process. This bookTable of Contents1. Organizational commitment 2. Knowledge management 3. Knowledge Sharing 4. Methodology of empirical research 5. The importance of organizational commitment for knowledge sharing - the results of empirical research

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Book SynopsisAcademics around the world recognise the effectiveness of storytelling as a way to engage audiences in conversations, raising awareness of issues, and encouraging change. Stories are now seen as the best medium to convey information to diverse audiences. This book explores a novel approach to representing research findings through the adoption of creative nonfictional stories (CNF). At a time when dissemination of scientific research is constantly highlighted as a fundamental aspect for academics, CNF represents an opportunity to effectively communicate science to non-academic audiences through stories. By providing practical examples of how to transform findings into compelling stories rooted in data, following the mantra of showing rather than telling, which characterises CNF, Creative Nonfiction in Sport and Exercise Research helps researchers qualitative, quantitative, established professors, and students to turn their research into stories. A uniquTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Learning the Craft of Creative Nonfiction 1. "Where Do I Start?": Getting to Grips with Creative Nonfiction2. From Telling to Showing: An account of Developing a Creative NonfictionPart 2: From Realist Tales to Creative Nonfiction3. The Daily Grind: Being a Parent of a Competitive Junior Tennis Player4. (Re)assembling ‘Balance’: A Creative Nonfiction of Athlete Mothers Negotiating Sport and Family5. ‘I’m Hurting but I’m Buzzing’: The Lived Experience of ‘Positive Pain’ in Competitive Swimming6. The Backstage of ‘Seeing’ Performance: Developing the ‘Seen’ and ‘Unseen’ of Coaching7. Filtering and Finding a New Way: A Creative Nonfiction of Soccer Coaches’ Professional Learning8. The Emergence and Perpetuation of a Destructive Culture in a British Olympic Sport9. Re-Building and Re-Discovering after Emotionally Abusive Experiences Part 3: Moving Beyond "just" Creative Nonfiction 10. Learning the Craft: Confessions on Writing Creative Nonfiction11. Exploring Visual Storytelling as a Vehicle for Creative Nonfiction

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Book SynopsisInformed by original ground-breaking research, this book âœshifts the lensâ of study, identifying how Indigenous Australian values and principles have influenced and contributed to an evolving non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture. Based on the Indigenous principle of respect, Muller presents a solid research framework to break down the barriers of social differences in a culturally safe space.The text offers an insight into the cultural aspects of modern Australian society that contributed to its globally acclaimed handling of the current coronavirus pandemic. During the preparation for dealing with the pandemic, Mullerâs research was validated as the world witnessed the Australian culture undergoing major change, shifting away from the original colonialist culture based on individuality and social stratification, to a community collective-based culture. It will be a valuable read for scholars in the area of community and allied health, humanities, social policy, sociTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Culture and Identity: Who are ‘we and us’?; 3. Opportunities at the Cultural Interface [Methodology]; 4. Decolonisation, a Framework for Research; 5. Mainstream Yarning; 6. Meaning of Common Language: Respect the Law - Respect Is Law; 7. Intercultural Decolonisation in Practice; 8. Knowledge Gained; 9. Healing and Hope; 10. Australian Culture: Under Construction

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Book SynopsisIn an age when electronic health records (EHRs) are an increasingly important source of data, this essential textbook provides both practical and theoretical guidance to researchers conducting epidemiological or clinical analysis through EHRs.Table of Contents1: The Rise of Electronic Health Records. 2: Concepts in Electronic Health Record Research. Section I: EHR Data for Research. 3: Planning for Electronic Health Record Research. 4: Accessing Electronic Health Record Data. 5: Data Management. 6: Perils of Electronic Health Record Data. Section II: Epidemiology and Data Analysis. 7: Study Design and Sampling Strategies. 8: Epidemiologic Measures. 9: Bias and Validity in Observational Research. 10: Epidemiologic Analysis I. 11: Epidemiologic Analysis II. 12: Advanced and Emerging Methods and Applications. Section III: Interpretation to Application. 13: Publication and Presentation. 14: Applications of Electronic Health Record Research. 15: Case Studies in Electronic Health Record Research. Appendix 1: Secondary Data Research Planner. Appendix 2: Example Code using R.

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Book SynopsisResearch Ethics for Environmental Health explores the ethical basis of environmental health research and related aspects of risk assessment and control. Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents. It is often assumed that the assessment part is just a matter of scientific research, and that control is a matter of implementing standards that unambiguously follow from that research. But it is less commonly understood that environmental health also requires addressing questions of an ethical nature. Coming from multiple disciplines and nine different countries, the contributors to this book critically examine a diverse range of ethical concerns in modern environmental health research. This book will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of environmental health, as well as researchers in applied ethics

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research presents a cohesive framework with which to conduct practice-based research or to support, manage and supervise practice-based researchers. It has been written with an inclusive approach, with the intention of presenting deep and meaningful knowledge for the benefit of all readers.This handbook has been designed to present specific detail of practice-based research by outlining its shared traits with all forms of research and to highlight its core distinguishing features into a cohesive, principled and methodical approach. To this end, the handbook is presented in five sections: 1. Practice-Based Research, 2. Knowledge, 3. Method, 4. The Practice-Based PhD and 5. Practitioner Voices. Each section begins with a leading chapter that outlines each of the distinct areas as they relate to practice-based research. This is followed by a series of contributing chapters that discuss pertinent themes in more detai

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Book SynopsisThis book is a vital new resource in the sociological study of family life in the 21st century. The chapters in this volume explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences, such as personal choices about reproduction and how life choices and family forms are mediated by factors including geographical location, race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, income and government policy. Through a series of evidence-based chapters, leading sociologists explore a diverse range of family and intimate life experiences and the contexts within which they are lived and experienced. Each chapter delves into the lives and experiences of people whose choices in some way seem to disrupt normative and traditional ideas of family, parenting and childhood. Family patterns and experiences of living apart together, troubled families, children in care, culture, coupledom, same-sex families and digital technology are covered and examined innovatively through theoretical engagement.CTrade Review'This book is unique in being the first of its kind to use disruptive ambiguity to fuel critical thinking of the normative understandings of family and life trajectories. It achieves this by challenging the inertia of embedded cultures and policies which still frame reality for non-normative families – a triumph for the creation of an authentic discursive place for societal progress'.Professor Catherine Hayes, University of Sunderland, UK'I would like to endorse this volume, which offers readers engagement with innovative work – both in terms of topic and/or methodology – in the field of family sociology. The book has an international appeal and both the editors and contributors are acknowledged experts in this field. The book aims to disrupt normative or expected accounts of family and the life course and – following the recent death of David HJ Morgan – it is encouraging to see that the volume intends to extend and rethink Morgan's work on family practices. I endorse and very much look forward to reading this publication'.Dr Stephen Hicks, University of Manchester, member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives'An important and timely collection taking forward scholarship in the field of family sociology. This volume draws on a range of empirical research projects investigating many hitherto under-researched life stages and family formations – methodologically innovative and theoretically ambitious, it will be of interest to researchers as well as practitioners working beyond the academy'. Dr Charlotte Faircloth, Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL Social Research InstituteTable of Contents1. Introduction: Negotiating families and personal lives in the 21st Century 2. Identity and kinship in lesbian parental families 3. Misrecognising ‘complex’ families: a social harm perspective 4. Understanding personal lives: after individualisation 5. Disrupting doxa about children in care: Research from England 6. Negotiating intimacy and family at distance: Living apart together (LAT) relationships in China 7. Of salsa and singlemuslim.com: ethnographic insights about identity shifts and changed self-concepts in middle aged women’s post-separation/divorce transitions 8. Exploring understandings of domestic violence with women in Sunderland: Negotiating and positioning emotionality within sensitive research 9. Displaying family in a digital age: How parents negotiate technology, visibility and privacy 10. Situating visual stories using photo elicitation and biographical narrative methods: Visual representations of family life in South Africa 11. Socially just, authentic research with families in Jamaica, Australia and the UK 12. Looking ahead: What does this mean for the sociology of families and personal lives in the future?

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Book SynopsisHow Qualitative Data Analysis Happens: Moving Beyond âœThemes Emergedâ (Volume 2), offers an in-depth look into how qualitative social science researchers studying a wide range of human experiences and dynamics approach their data analyses. This expanded edition consists of 13 new chapters from a broad range of disciplines (and an added conclusion) that document the stories about how qualitative data analysis occurred.Chapters for this expanded edition represent a diversity of disciplines (e.g., criminology, family science, education, health, nutrition, sociology, sport psychology) that focus on the human experience and describe a diversity of methodological approaches. These chapters may be used to introduce readers to newer or innovative ways of analysing data. It moves beyond the usual vague statement of âœthemes emerged from the dataâ to show readers how researchers actively and consciously arrive at their themes and conclusions, revealing the complexity and time involved in making sense of thousands of pages of interview data, multiple data sources, and diverse types of data. The various authors provide detailed narratives into how they analysed their data from previous publications. The methodologies range from arts-based research, autoethnography, community-based participatory research, ethnography, grounded theory, to narrative analysis. The volume allows readers to be seemingly âœin the roomâ with these international scholars (representing Canada, the US, Austria, Germany, the UK, and the Philippines) and getting their own hands vicariously dirty with the data.This expanded edition also includes a conclusion chapter, in which the authors reflect on commonalities across the chapters. Supplemental figures, images, and screenshots, which are referred to in the chapters, are included in an accompanying eResource (that can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781032183213), as well as links to the previously published work on which the chapters are based. This book is an invaluable resource for experienced and novice qualitative researchers throughout the social sciences, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field.

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Book SynopsisA Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education brings together more than 60 faculty experts. The contributors share detailed lesson plans about selected research concepts or skills in education and related disciplines, as well as discussions of the intellectual preparation needed to effectively teach the lesson. Grounded in the wisdom of practice from exemplary and award-winning faculty from diverse institution types, career stages, and demographic backgrounds, this book draws on both the practical and cognitive elements of teaching educational (and related) research to students in higher education today. The book is divided into eight sections, covering the following key elements within education (and related) research: problems and research questions, literature reviews and theoretical frameworks, research design, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods, findings and discussions, and special topics, such as student identity deveTrade ReviewA Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is an example of university faculty identifying and resolving a problem found in their practice of teaching. The book offers a wealth of pedagogical lessons that connect the concepts, processes, and tools of research methodology to student backgrounds and needs to enhance understanding and success. Every teacher of research methods will benefit from this professional development." -- Jill A. Perry, PhD (​she/her/hers), Associate Professor of Practice, Dept of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA "A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is an essential contribution to the toolkit of education faculty. This volume spans qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, and provides faculty with expert advice and plans to engage students. From the classroom novice to seasoned faculty, A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is a welcome addition to the library of educators invested in instructing students embarking on their research journeys." -- Richard J. Reddick, Senior Vice Provost for Curriculum and Enrollment, and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, The University of Texas at Austin, USA"As someone who has extensively studied effective teaching across research universities and community colleges, I believe this book serves as an exemplary resource for any faculty member who has struggled with how to get across complex ideas to novice and aspiring researchers. The unique combination of providing a lesson plan that instructors can pick up and immediately use with the discussion of the intellectual journey of developing the lesson is exactly what we need to improve teaching and learning in higher education research classes, dissertations, and research projects." -- Audrey J. Jaeger, Executive Director, Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, W. Dallas Herring Professor of Community College Education, USA"A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is bound to be a seminal resource for faculty and students alike. The book goes step-by-step through the research process. It starts with when students are working on getting clear about the problem they are researching and works its way to when scholars are identifying the implications of their findings for research, practice, and policy. The inclusion of lesson plans will provide faculty with an incredible resource as they teach and guide their students through the research process. This is the type of book that one can use during a course and subsequently return to again and again as a resource." -- Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Co-PI, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant, USAA Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is an example of university faculty identifying and resolving a problem found in their practice of teaching. The book offers a wealth of pedagogical lessons that connect the concepts, processes, and tools of research methodology to student backgrounds and needs to enhance understanding and success. Every teacher of research methods will benefit from this professional development." -- Jill A. Perry, PhD (​she/her/hers), Associate Professor of Practice, Dept of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy Studies, University of Pittsburgh, USA "A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is an essential contribution to the toolkit of education faculty. This volume spans qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, and provides faculty with expert advice and plans to engage students. From the classroom novice to seasoned faculty, A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is a welcome addition to the library of educators invested in instructing students embarking on their research journeys." -- Richard J. Reddick, Senior Vice Provost for Curriculum and Enrollment, and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, The University of Texas at Austin, USA"As someone who has extensively studied effective teaching across research universities and community colleges, I believe this book serves as an exemplary resource for any faculty member who has struggled with how to get across complex ideas to novice and aspiring researchers. The unique combination of providing a lesson plan that instructors can pick up and immediately use with the discussion of the intellectual journey of developing the lesson is exactly what we need to improve teaching and learning in higher education research classes, dissertations, and research projects." -- Audrey J. Jaeger, Executive Director, Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, W. Dallas Herring Professor of Community College Education, USA"A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education: Lesson Plans and Advice from Faculty is bound to be a seminal resource for faculty and students alike. The book goes step-by-step through the research process. It starts with when students are working on getting clear about the problem they are researching and works its way to when scholars are identifying the implications of their findings for research, practice, and policy. The inclusion of lesson plans will provide faculty with an incredible resource as they teach and guide their students through the research process. This is the type of book that one can use during a course and subsequently return to again and again as a resource." -- Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, Co-PI, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant, USA"Over a 40-year faculty career, I co-learned with my students, especially those students designing, conducting, and completing their dissertation research. This book, written with insight into the teaching of the research process, provides faculty with support for co-learning, particularly the importance of knowing one's own research perspective and the importance of understanding student goals and passions for creating new knowledge. The theoretical and practical examples provided in this book are invaluable to all involved in the research process." -- Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Professor Emerita, Higher Education and Ethics, Arizona State University, USA; Past President, Association for the Study of Higher EducationTable of ContentsSection I: Topics, Problems, and Research Questions; 1. Introduction to Section I: Research Topics, Problems, and Questions 2. From Personal Passion to Hot Topics: Selecting a Topic to Research 3. Articulating a Research Problem and its Rationale: Using Graphical Depictions, Exemplars, and Students’ Own Work 4. Branch out: Using Tree Diagrams to Select and Develop Research Questions; Section II: Literature Review and Theoretical/Conceptual Framework 5. Introduction to Section II: Literature Review and Theoretical/Conceptual Framework 6. Connecting Pieces to the Puzzle: Finding and Maintaining Resources 7. The Candy Sort: Organizing the Literature Review 8. Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks: Understanding the Role of Theory in Congruent Research Designs; Section III: Research Design 9. Introduction to Section III: Research Design 10. Visualize Your Research Design: Moving from Research Questions to Research Design 11. Let’s Road Trip: Aligning Theoretical Frameworks, Research Questions & Research Design 12. The Self and Research: Positionality through Artifacts 13. Trustworthiness and Ethics in Research: Using Reflexivity to See the Self in Ethical Research; Section IV: Quantitative Methods 14. Introduction to Section IV: Quantitative Methods 15. Making Sense of Multivariate Analysis: Real World Applications 16. Linear regression: A Student-driven Application of Team-based Learning 17. Hands-on Application of Exploratory Factor Analysis in Educational Research 18. Trending Topic: Teaching Difference-in-differences in a Quasi-experimental Methods Course; Section V: Qualitative Methods 19. Introduction to Section V: Qualitative Methods 20. Listening Deeply: Preparing to Facilitate Interviews and Focus Groups 21. Write What You See, Not What You Know: Learning the Method of Observation Through the Visual Arts 22. On the Recovery of Black Life: A Holistic Approach to Document Analysis 23. Emerging Approaches: Ensuring a Pyramid of Congruence when using Critical and Poststructural Theories in Qualitative Educational Research 24. Exploring How Epistemologies Guide the Process of Coding Data and Developing Themes; Section VI: Mixed Methods 25. Introduction to Section VI: Mixed Methods 26. Low Hanging Fruit, Ripe for Inquiry: Considering the Quantitative Dimensions of Mixed Methods Research 27. Creating your Masterpiece: Applying Brush Strokes to Qualitative Exploration of Mixed Methods Research 28. Presenting and Visualizing a Mixed Methods Study; Section VII: Findings and Discussion 29. Introduction to Section VII: Findings and Discussion 30. An Introduction to Regression using Critical Quantitative Thinking 31. Show the Story: Presenting Qualitative Findings 32. Block by Block: Building a Discussion Section 33. Making the Theoretical Practical: Implications for Theory 34. The Donut Memo: Writing for Policymakers and Practitioners; Section VIII: Special Topics 35. Introduction to Section VIII: Special Topics 36. Scholarly Identity Development of Undergraduate Researchers: A Lesson Plan for Professional Development 37. Developing Students’ Cultural Competence through Video Interviews 38. Preparing Students for Community-engaged Scholarship: A Lesson Plan for Collaborative Inquiry Grounded in Awareness of Self and Others 39. Teaching Policy Implications: Can You Have Your Cake and Eat it Too? 40. Introducing Scholars to Public Writing; Closing Words: Helping Students to Learn Research and Become Researchers

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on how to improve the collection, analysis and responsible use of data on global migration and international mobility. While migration remains a topic of great policy interest for governments around the world, there is a serious lack of reliable, timely, disaggregated and comparable data on it, and often insufficient safeguards to protect migrants' information. Meanwhile, vast amounts of data about the movement of people are being generated in real time due to new technologies, but these have not yet been fully captured and utilized by migration policymakers, who often do not have enough data to inform their policies and programmes. The lack of migration data has been internationally recognized; the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration urges all countries to improve data on migration to ensure that policies and programmes are evidence-based, but does not spell out how this could be done. This book examines both the technical issues associatTable of Contents1. Introduction: Why Migration Data Matters. Part I. The State of Migration Data. 2. International Migration Data: An Overview. 3. How International Migration Data are Managed: Challenges and Solutions 4. Big Data: How Much Can They Tell Us About Migrants and Migration Policy? Part II. Data Availability on Key Migration Topics. 5. Migration and Sustainable Development: Measuring Progress. 6. Data on Migration and Climate Change: Making Sense of the Numbers. 7. Improving Data on Migration and Health After the Global Pandemic. 8. Way Forward.

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Book SynopsisCollaborative Writing and Psychotherapy delves into the relationship that develops between client and therapist as they embark on a collaborative autoethnographic writing practice. The book explores the notion that both client and therapist change as a result of engaging in a psychotherapeutic process. The dialogic approach allows both voices to be heard together in the exploration of autoethnographic methods (collaborative autoethnography and dialogic autoethnography) and creative-relational approaches. This book will encourage therapists to be more vulnerable with their own life experiences and how these shape and influence therapeutic encounters with clients. Additional contributions include the expansion of psychotherapeutic literature to explore co-creative (creative relational) methods, and to expand autoethnographic scholarship to include psychotherapy narratives. Finally, the book offers ideas to therapists who might want to develop the fellow traveller' aspeTrade Review"I can’t wait to read this book. I feel as though we have all been waiting for this book. It seems all set not only to flatten relations between clients and therapists but squash flat the pseudo- professional boundaries that psychotherapy professionals have ducked behind all their ( our) working lives. This book moves therapists out from hiding behind their couches and their false veils of ‘expertise’ to stand alongside their clients as fellow, flawed humans. Therapy and therapists need to come out of the closet. Therapy needs queering up a bit and Trish and Dan are exactly the people to perform this feat. I hope this book becomes a core text for all psychotherapy and counselling education programmes." -- Jane Speedy, Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Bristol, UK; Member of CANI-net"In the spirit of Irvin Yalom’s, "Every Day Gets a Little Closer," Trish Thompson and Daniel X. Harris share the ever-deepening richness of their therapeutic journey through poignant, vulnerable, and transparent collaborative writing." -- Lawrence Rubin, PhD, ABPP, Editor, Psychotherapy.net "Collaboration, accessibility, emotional connection: autoethnography allows all three in the client-therapist relationship. Hierarchies are transcended, healing is transformative. This book shows us how." -- Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli AM, Honorary Fellow, School of Communication and Creative Arts (SCCA), Deakin University, Australia"This is a provocative intervention in the field of psychotherapy, counselling and qualitative and creative research. Trish Thompson and Daniel X. Harris intimately reflect on the relational processes and intersubjective nature of client-therapist relations as they move from therapist/client to collaborators and co-authors. They demonstrate the transformative power of dialogical practice and creative methods, particularly writing, in their own therapeutic relationship, illustrating how it evolved into a collaboration where their vulnerabilities could be explored in relation to each other, in ways that had therapeutic and transformative benefits for them both. Collaborative Writing and Psychotherapy is a must read for anyone engaged in therapeutic practicing or thinking about the potential power dynamics between therapist and client, and/or ethical possibilities for unsettling tradition notions of client/therapist relationships." -- Professor Katherine Johnson, Professor of Psychology and Dean of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Australia "This book is a realisation of a beautiful idea. Dan and Trish seek to challenge and dislodge the often unacknowledged power imbalance between client and therapist. Their dialogical process places "equivalence of voice" at the centre of this radical and humanising idea. This book moves me to seriously consider big questions; who am I as I sit in my therapeutic role, who is my client, and what might be possible for two people together in a shared space?" -- Dr Stephen Andrew - Psychotherapist and author of Searching for an Autoethnographic Ethic "This is a rare gem in the plethora of books written for therapists, giving the reader first-hand experience of using dialogical writing for therapeutic reflection. The book is both rigorously academic and sensitively personal, demonstrating the thought processes and reflexivity of master therapists, reflexivity that all therapists strive for but can rarely achieve." -- Dr Judith Ayre, Head of School of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Arts Therapy, Ikon Institute of AustraliaTable of Contents1. (Trish): Irv Who? 2. (Dan): Unstable Sense of Self Dialogue 1: How Do We Define Collaborative Writing? 3. (Trish): A Fine Balance 4. (Dan): Letting Go Dialogue 2: The Book of Laughter and Remembering 5. (Trish): Writing into Healing 6. (Dan): Butterfly Moves Dialogue 3: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

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Posthumanist Research and Writing as Agentic Acts of Inclusion: Knowledge Forced Open looks at the true value and possibilities of ''learning'' and knowledge within the emerging field of New Public Governance by examining, through a posthumanist lens and other perspectives, the paradoxical knowledge situation we are in today.This book addresses the constitution of knowledge as an uncertain process, understanding text as spaces for entanglements of knowledge knowledge not as certainty but as uncertainty and writing as the act and art of engaging with these entanglements. Through examining research from multiple perspectives, text, stories as narrative are constructed as data showing ethnographic engagements between writers, readers and texts. The authors show how to construct messy entanglements of continual, always already constant thinking and becomings, through the art and science of research and writing as knowledging processes.Suitable for scholars of p

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a first-hand insight into the work of policing scholars and the research that they undertake. Bringing together a range of leading scholars and drawing on a range of pressing topics, it introduces the diverse nature of policing research, and the ethical and practical challenges faced by policing researchers. Each chapter brings clarity to the concept of empirical research within policing, introduces readers to the theoretical explanations and assumptions that underpin the rational of research design in policing, as well as considering the limitations of research. Topics include: research methods in police research; police professionalisation; police and diversity; police leadership; undercover policing; police and vulnerability; activist research; social media and policing.This revised and expanded new edition includes more focus on the role of research in policing, police and academic partnerships and pTrade Review“Policing in the modern era is a mixture of socio-legal, socio-cultural, ethical and normative, and administrative and policy interaction. Such inquiry must apply quantitative and qualitative analysis to explain formal social control in democratic societies. This second edition continues the pursuit of broadening the knowledge base of policing introducing chapters rooted in theory, method and the practicalities of policing, an often-delicate balance. In this volume, notable police scholars examine policing from inside the occupation, and externally as to the impacts of policing, as well as efforts to transition and transform the police. The breadth of the volume is a refreshing contribution to understanding this complex institution, simultaneously charged with formal social control, yet under the constraint of rule of law. The volume will be well received by academics and police practitioners”.Jack R. Green, Professor Emeritus, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston“Policing research is rich in its diversity and broad in its approach. Through a series of fascinating case studies, this second edition of Introduction to Policing Research celebrates that kaleidoscope of work by bringing alive the challenges, pitfalls and joys of research. Leading national and international policing scholars introduce readers to a variety of traditional and innovative research methodologies set within the important context of research design, ethics, limitations and impact. The editors should be commended because not only will this book be an invaluable resource for students, practitioners and researchers alike but is also testament to the very healthy state of policing research going into the future”. Dr Sarah Charman, Professor of Criminology at the University of Portsmouth“Both the conduct of policing and the ways it is researched have been evolving and adapting rapidly in recent years. This book provides a unique perspective on these issues by utilising a variety of analytic lenses that illuminate the art, craft and science of contemporary police work”. Professor Martin Innes, Security, Crime and Intelligence Innovation Institute, Cardiff University“Policing and researchers have a long and vexed history which has greatly improved over recent years. This improvement has been brought about by some of the authors in this edition, who have identified the value of working ‘with’ police to truly add value and validate their work. Hopefully, some of the examples in this edition will inspire a future generation of policing scholars”. Dr Tracey Green, CEO ANZPAA Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency“Read this book! The study of policing has changed as has policing. For students and professors, this important book points the way to the challenges of the future. It is courageous in setting out needed research on the complexity of the police organization, diversity, leadership and global transitions in police work. It is both practical and readable”.Peter Manning, Senior Fellow at Garfinkel Archive, Former Fellow of Balliol College Oxford, the Socio-legal Centre, Wolfson, and Fellow of Wolfson College OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction Denise Martin and Stephen Tong 1. The Practicalities of Police Research Denise Martin 2. Policing and Academic Partnerships John Coxhead 3. Outside Insiders: Police Officers Who Research Gareth Stubbs 4. Police and the Use of Evidence-Based Practice Cody W. Telep Part 2: Inside Policing 5. Researching Detective Pathways: Opportunities and Challenges Martin O'Neill and Stephen Tong 6. Researching Police Professionalisation in Scotland, Sweden and Finland Larissa Engleman and Andrew Tatnell 7. Researching Challenging Issues: The Case of Policing Diversity Karen Bullock, Jon Garland and Michael Rowe 8. Researching Power and the Powerful: Reflections from Police Leadership Research Claire Davis 9. Researching Police Custody: Past, Present and Future Layla Skinns, Rebecca Banwell-Moore, Lindsey Rice and Andrew Wooff Part 3: Researching Police in Transition 10. Research and the Police in South Africa: The Case of a Violent, Unequal, Post-Authoritarian Democracy Andrew Faull 11. Positionality and its Implications for Researching the Police in Vietnam Melissa Jardine and Hai Thanh Luong 12. Policing in Northern Ireland: Research, Meaning and Lessons from a Contested Landscape John Topping and Richard Martin 13. Researching Police Reform: Experiences from Scotland and the Netherlands Nicholas R. Fyfe and Jan Terpstra Part 4: The Challenges of Police Research 14. Extending the Scope of Multidisciplinary Research on Undercover Policing Paul McFarlane 15. Cautionary Tales and Useful Instruments: Researching Vulnerability in Policing Nicole L. Asquith and Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron 16. From Ethnography to Virtual Reality: Researching Police-Public Interactions Ben Bradford 17. ‘You’ll Find No Smoking Gun’: Challenging the Police Narrative in the Aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster Phil Scraton 18. Researching Visible Policing Liam Ralph, Michael Rowe, Andrew Millie and Matthew Jones 19. Researching Project Vigilant, a Police Response to Violence Against Women in the Night Time Economy: Reclaiming the Night? Chris Magill and Peter Squires 20. Whose Side Were We On? Positionality and Identities in Researching the Plural Policing of Scottish Football Colin Atkinson and William Graham 21. Conclusions and the Future Direction of Police Research Denise Martin and Stephen Tong

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of this reader-friendly book offers an accessible introduction to conducting qualitative research in education. The text begins with an introduction to the history, context, and traditions of qualitative research, and then walks readers step-by-step through the research process. Lichtman outlines research planning and design, as well as the methodologies, techniques, and strategies to help researchers make the best use of their qualitative investigation. Throughout, chapters touch on important issues that impact this research process such as ethics and subjectivity and making use of technology.The fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated featuring new examples, an increased focus on virtual and digital data collection, and the latest approaches to qualitative research.Written in a practical, conversational style and full of real-world scenarios drawn from across education, this book is a practical compendium on qualitative research in education ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate research methods courses and early career researchers alike.Hear Marilyn discuss what inspired her to write this fourth edition and what readers can expect. In this podcast episode of The Qualitative Report, she discusses the various types of qualitative research and what defines quality and rigor as well as current issues in education and how qualitative research methods can be used to address them. Finally, she shares her thoughts about technology and the future of qualitative research.Trade ReviewFrom the book cover to the way she organizes and writes the chapters, Lichtman invites readers to join her on a journey to learn how qualitative research can address some of education’s most pressing problems. Up-to-date, easy to read, and useful, this book has earned a permanent place on my bookshelf [...] the way Lichtman weaves in personal stories makes one feel like she is right there with you–your personal qualitative research 'guide on the side'.-Marti Snyder, Professor in the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice; Director of Faculty Professional Development in the Learning and Educational Center at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), as reviewed in TQRFull book review can be found hereI fully anticipate that future instructors and students will be able to work through this text and finish it with the ability to not only conceptualize and carry out a research study but be able to do so with confidence and a mindset that qualitative inquiry offers us an exciting journey for understanding phenomena which impact us as well as our world. In summary, I have no doubt that students and teachers as well as those who simply want to get some fresh insights into will find this latest edition to be well-worth reading. I know that I continue to draw new insights from it and give it my highest recommendation.- James A. Bernauer, Robert Morris University, as reviewed in FQSFull book review can be found here Lichtman displays a unique understanding of the importance of qualitative research in our examination of 21st-century education. Those of us in the academy should celebrate her books as periodic reminders of that importance. In addition, her Qualitative Research in Education (2023, Fourth Edition) is an excellent how-to text for all who practice qualitative research. This book should be on the shelf of every practitioner, both those new to the field as well as those of us who need a refresher course on why we do this work.- Henry M. Smith, EdD., Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education.Table of ContentsPART 1: TRADITIONS, THEORY AND PRACTICE 1. Introduction and Overview of the Field 2. Learning How to Be a Qualitative Researcher 3. Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research 4. Reflexivity and Subjectivity 5. Philosophy, Theory, Theories, and Frameworks PART 2: PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH 6. Identifying Research Areas and Questions 7. Role and Function of a Review of Research 8. Using Social Media, Technology and the Internet 9. Designing Your Research: Part 1 10. Designing Your Research: Part 2 PART 3: COLLECTING, ORGANIZING, AND COMMUNICATING 11. Judging and Evaluating 12. Gathering Data (Interviews, Observations, Documents, Other) 13. Making Meaning From Your Data 14. Communicating and Connecting 15. Thinking About the Future

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Book SynopsisBlending the latest academic research with case studies of famous figures, this highly insightful book presents doubt' as a central concept for psychology. It is a concept which has been oddly neglected in the past, despite its ubiquitous nature and far-reaching influence. Exploring everything from self-doubt and impostor syndrome to the weaponisation of doubt with respect to climate change and the marketing of cigarettes, bestselling author Geoffrey Beattie navigates readers through the various ways doubt can start and develop, changing the individual in the process. Written in Beattie's distinctive and engaging style, Doubt takes the reader into the lives of transformational thinkers, artists, scientists and writers to explore how and why doubt was crucial in their lives and how the likes of Kafka, Jung, Picasso and Turing succumbed to doubt or learned to control it. Beattie argues that doubt is central to the self; it can be either a safeguarding mechanism or a distTrade Review"This is one of the most brilliant books I have ever come across. Its aim is to address the question of what is doubt, not directly in any circumscribed definitional standard, but by examining the powerful role it has had (and continues to have) in human life. To do so, Geoff Beattie takes the reader on a narrative journey into the minds of some of the greatest writers and scientists of history tin order to cast light on how their doubts shaped their creative and scientific accomplishments. He also looks at how doubt is harnessed maliciously to spread conspiracy theories about such things as climate change. Written in his usual accessible narrative style – let us not forget that Beattie is also an accomplished novelist as well as a distinguished psychologist – this book will be hard to put down. Its implications for grasping who we are as a species – we are the only species that possesses doubt – and for harnessing or counteracting its enormous power of control over human life, make it a must read for everyone."Marcel Danesi, PhD, FRCS, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada"Beattie brilliantly illustrates the science of doubt with fascinating case studies from doubters like Kafka, to non-doubters like Picasso and how it can be addressed therapeutically, as in Brendan Ingle’s boxing gym in Sheffield."Brian Butterworth, Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University College London, UK"Geoff Beattie has written a brilliantly entertaining book about the little considered phenomenon of doubt, focusing mainly but not exclusively on self-doubt. Part memoir, part an examination of the psychology of doubt, and part an examination of the role of doubt (or lack of it) in the lives of key historical figures – Jung, Kafka, Picasso, Ernest Dichter (a psychoanalyst who devoted his talents to promoting the consumption of cigarettes) and Alan Turing – the book offers a wide-ranging and unique appreciation of the importance of doubt in individual minds and in human affairs."Richard Bentall, PhD, FBA, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The Nature and Meaning of Doubt 2. Alone in Doubt 3. Jung’s Dream 4. Feeling Like a Fraud 5. ‘I, the King’ 6. The Perils of a Doubt-Free Life 7. Treating Doubt the Hard Way 8. Manufacturing Doubt 9. Our House is on Fire 10. Concluding Remarks References Index

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Book SynopsisEdge Entanglements traverses the borderlands of the community mental health sector by plugging in to concepts offered by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari along with work from Mad Studies, postcolonial, and feminist scholars. Barlott and Setchell demonstrate what postqualitative inquiry can do, surfacing the transformative potential of freely-given relationships between psychiatrised people and allies in the community. Thinking with theory, the authors map the composition and generative processes of freely-given, ally relationships. Edge Entanglements surfaces how such relationships can unsettle constraints of the mental health sector and produce creative possibilities for psychiatrised people. Affectionately creating harmonies between theory and empirical data, the authors sketch ally relationships in ways that move. Allyship is enacted through micropolitical processes of becoming-complicit: ongoing movement towards taking on the struggle of another as your oTrade Review"The authors successfully take an obtuse line of theoretical inquiry from Deleuze and Guattari, and artfully make it accessible and engaging. They carefully avoid rehashing the now clichéd elements of this theory, in favour of more direct and grounded explanation. Specifically, the authors takes readers deep into relationships with eight participants - produced through a time-consuming process of relationship-building developed over several encounters – to clearly demonstrate the re-imaginative benefits of their theory-data entanglement."Rebecca Olson, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia"In this powerful book, Barlott and Setchell demand we radically rethink the nature of friendship and (health)care. To reframe friendship through posthuman philosophy is to explore how our very being is made and remade in tiny moments of everyday life. Barlott and Setchell trace the genesis and unfolding of four such friendships, how they support, challenge, and resist dominant frameworks of mental health service. Health researchers, whether we like it or not, are part of this process. If we wish to affirm life in freely-given relationships, this book is the place to start."Thomas Abrams, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction to the SeriesBy Simone Fullagar1. The Edge of Things2. Destabilising Major Mental Health Approaches 3. Becoming-Minor, Mapping Territories4. Assembling 5. Doing a Cartography 6. An Entry Point 7. Cartography of Territories 8. Cartography of Becoming 9. Cartography of Desire10. (Dis)Organising Allyship, Becoming-Complicit Knots–Sorcery–Belonging, An AfterwordBy Lynda Shevellar, Tim Barlott, and Jenny Setchell

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of this bestselling text provides a comprehensive discussion of single case research methodology, with updated information throughout the book, including new content on design types, design selection, social validity, fidelity, generality, visual analysis, and writing. Students, researchers, and practitioners can use this detailed reference tool to conduct single case research design studies; interpret findings of single case design studies; and write proposals, manuscripts, or systematic reviews of single case methodology research. The new text features updates relevant to contemporary guidelines about single case research and includes examples of recent and historical studies in education and behavioral sciences.

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Book SynopsisIn company with its sister volume, this book explores arts-based approaches to research across media, including film and comics-related material, from a variety of geographic locations and across a range of subdisciplines within the field of education. This second volume has a focus exclusively on visual output and image-based research and methods.The book aims to highlight some of the approaches that are not always centered in arts-based research. The visual takes center stage as authors lead with comics-based representations, among other forms of arts-based inquiry. These chapters follow on from the first collection and serve to expand thinking about merging creative methods with analysis and exploration in the world of education. From mixtapes to the curatorial, these chapters showcase the ways in which scholars explore the multitude of human experiences. This second volume covers, among other topics: comics in qualitative research, visual journaling, multimodal fieldnotes and discourse, and creative visual outputs.It is suitable reading for graduate students and scholars interested in qualitative inquiry and arts-based methods, in education and the social sciences.Trade Review'Editor Jason DeHart assembles an impressive array of contributors for this unique collection of arts-based research resources. The chapters address the spectrum of artistic modalities from poetry to music, from comics to movement, and from ethnodrama to visual art. A diverse range of scholars bring their contemporary, experiential voices to their stories, writing with insight, passion, humor, and vulnerability. Qualitative researchers from multiple disciplines will find the two-volume Arts-Based Research Across Textual/Visual Media in Education a valuable and inspirational reference for creative approaches to social inquiry.'Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Words (and Images) Mean Me Section I: Comics and Static Visuals 1. Clearer and clearer and clearer still: The promise and providence of comics-based research methods in education 2. Classroom Marvels: Exploring Comics in Middle School Literacy Instruction 3. What Drawing Can Lead Us to See: Drawing Cartoons with Student Researchers 4. Bringing Children’s Play into Literacy Events: Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding 5. Visual Critical Topography in Comics Worlds Section II: Journals and Notes in the Field 6. Visual Journaling as Method 7. Through the Looking-glass: Creating and Reading Multimodal Fieldnotes Section III: Exploring (Even) Further Methods 8. When a Single Song Just Won’t Do: The Mixtape as Research Methodology 9.What the Concepts of Curating and the Curatorial Can Do 10. Resilience and Solidarity Building on Instagram: Exploring Art, Activism, and Participatory Analysis with Indigenous Peoples and 2SLGBTQ+ Youth in the Wabanaki Confederacy

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Book SynopsisThis book is an immersive ethnographic account of how fighters at a Polish-owned Muay Thai/kickboxing gym in East London seek to reject prior identity markers in favour of constructing one another as the same, as fighters, a category supposedly free from the negative assumptions and limitations associated with prior ascriptions such as race, class, gender and sexuality.It explores questions of subjectivity and identity by examining how and why fighters sought to disavow identity, which involved casting aside pre-established ways of thinking, feeling and acting about constructed differences to forge deep bonds of carnal convivial friendships. Yet, this book argues that becoming a fighter is highly socially contingent and remains subject to rupture due to the durability of taken-for-granted thinking about race, gender and sexuality, which, if drawn upon, could pull people out of the category of fighter and back into longer-standing durable categories. This book deploys Butler''Trade Review"A tender yet quietly punchy portrait of the precious multiracial convivialities that obtain amid the sweat, blood and tears of a (kick)boxing gym. The bonds of working-class multiculture forged through the mutual vulnerability and trust as cultivated in the gym stand here in firm resolve against the insistent weight of the racisms and nationalisms that otherwise colour our political present. Marrying patiently observed ethnographic detail with a deftly accessible and unburdened prose, Amit Singh reminds us that the anti-racisms of tomorrow are already being incubated in the ostensibly mundane spaces and practices all around us. Fighting Identity is, in other words, a moving witness to the cultural textures common to our cities that help us scope a path out of racism’s wicked diminution of the lives that we might otherwise lead together."Sivamohan Valluvan, Associate Professor of Sociology at The University of Warwick, UK; and author of The Clamour of Nationalism (2019)"What happens when Pierre Bourdieu meets Judith Butler in a kickboxing ring? Sociological sparks fly! Fighting Identity is not just a fascinating field account of the fabrication of fighters and a theoretical rumination on masculine plebeian dreams in black and white. It is also an astute sociological dissection of the making and unmaking of habitus, rooted in a community of suffering bodies that lifts its members above their mundane condition, and a deft demonstration of the carnality of identity."Loïc Wacquant, author of Body and Soul and The Invention of the "Underclass" "For anyone who ever wanted to see inside the sweaty glamour of the fighting gym, this scholarly story-telling will gratify your curiosity and touch your heart. We learn how fighters navigate the intense connections of the gym-space to unsettle racism and homophobia, at least a little, and what it is in the demanding disciplines of fight culture that edges open space to imagine more hopeful relations between us. You may also experience a strange urge to train more - embrace it." Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of Rethinking Racial CapitalismTable of Contents1 Introduction2 Becoming a Fighter and Escaping Identity3 Gender in the Gym: Fighting for Respect in a "Cis-Male Space"4 Carnal Conviviality, Culture & Complex Identities5 No Race, No Racism?6 Black Masculinity: Being a Fighter or Being a "Black Fighter"?7 Conclusion: Making Fighters, Un-making Identity?

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Book SynopsisThis is one of the first textbooks to explore the research process within the specific context of luxury brand management. It adopts a case-rich approach, informed by original research, to guide the reader through the various stages of the research process from conception to completion and application. Beginning with a summary of past and present research in the field of luxury, the book then outlines the fundamental principles of research, paying particular attention to representativeness and contextualisation, before guiding readers through the intricacies of research design. Further topics include the nature of data in the field of luxury, the research challenges facing luxury practitioners, quantitative and qualitative research methods for luxury brand management specialists, analytical techniques, and guidance for presenting and applying research findings within the luxury environment. Real-world examples and case studies are provided in each chapter, and the book roundsTable of Contents1. Research Methods in Luxury Management: Introduction and Overview 2. The Field of Luxury Research 3. Identifying a Luxury Management Research Topic 4. Luxury Research Approach and Research Design 5. Sources of Data for Luxury Research 6. Methods for Luxury Research 7. Analysing Luxury Research Data 8. Writing Up and Presenting Luxury Research Findings 9. Applying Research Findings to the Field of Luxury Management 10. Review and Learning Resources

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Book SynopsisProviding academic insights, reflections, and practical guidance on ethically conducting qualitative criminological research, this book emphasizes real-life examples to navigate research risks, boundaries, and emotions, while spotlighting reflexivity as a pivotal tool for qualitative inquiries, serving as an ethical compass throughout the research process.By engaging with this book, readers will be exposed to critical themes of managing risks, including physical harm and psychological trauma, navigating boundaries, dealing with the intense emotions that surface during research, and the importance of reflexivity in qualitative criminological research. The themes are illustrated through real-life examples that the authors have encountered during their fieldwork, using reflexive practices to highlight how they were able to ethically deal with unforeseen challenges. By presenting solutions, asking critical questions, and offering practical recommendations, the book guides readers

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Book SynopsisThis book claims that artificial intelligence (AI) may affect our freedom at work, in our daily life, and in the political sphere. The author provides a philosophical framework to help make sense of and govern the ethical and political impact of AI in these domains. AI presents great opportunities and risks, raising the question of how to reap its potential benefits without endangering basic human and societal values. The author identifies three major risks for human freedom. First, AI offers employers new forms of control of the workforce, opening the door to new forms of domination and exploitation. Second, it may reduce our capacity to remain in control of and responsible for our decisions and actions, thereby affecting our free will and moral responsibility. Third, it may increase the power of governments and tech companies to steer the political debate, thereby affecting the possibility of a free and inclusive political participation. The author claims that it is still possible

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This boundary-spanning textbook explores diverse ways that visual display can advance understanding of complex social phenomenon in applied fields in the social and human sciences. It provides a window into the latest advances in mixed methods research (MMR) by investigating how integrative tables and figures have been creatively adapted in diverse contemporary contexts where qualitative methods are prominent.The book affirms that the usefulness of visual displays is not restricted to reporting; it extends to helping investigators conceptualize a research problem, embed quality in research design during planning, advance multi-dimensional sampling, to extend analysis, and as a tool to highlight integration during reporting. Chapters feature examples that demonstrate how different shapes and textual devices that are available through basic word processing software can help an investigator to think more complexly about the multi-dimensionality or temporality of a construct, pro

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Book SynopsisResearch Methods for Operations and Supply Chain Management, third edition, is a toolkit of research approaches primarily for advanced students and beginner researchers, but also a reference book for any researcher in operations and supply chain management (OSCM).Many students begin their careers in research limited by the one or few approaches taken by their department. The concise, accessible overviews found here equip them with an understanding of a variety of methods and how to use them, enabling students to tailor their research project to their own strengths and goals. The more seasoned researcher will find comprehensive descriptions and analyses on a wide variety of research approaches.This updated and enhanced edition responds to the latest developments in OSCM, including the growing prominence of services and production of intangible products, the complete supply chain, and the increasing use of secondary data and of mixed approaches. Alternative reseTable of Contents1. Introduction to the book Christer Karlsson2. Research in operations and supply chain management Christer Karlsson3. The research process Pär Åhlström4. SurveysCipriano Forza and Enrico Sandrin5. Case researchChris Voss, Mark Johnson, and Jan Godsell6. Longitudinal field studiesPär Åhlström and Christer Karlsson7. Action researchPaul Coughlan and David Coghlan8. Clinical management research – Interventionist and collaborative approachesChrister Karlsson9. Model-based research J. Will M. Bertrand, Jan C. Fransoo, and Maximiliano Udenio

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography reviews and expands the field and scope of sensory ethnography by fostering new links among sensory, affective, more-than-human, non-representational, and multimodal sensory research traditions and composition styles. From writing and film to performance and sonic documentation, the handbook reimagines the boundaries of sensory ethnography and posits new possibilities for scholarship conducted through the senses and for the senses. Sensory ethnography is a transdisciplinary research methodology focused on the significance of all the senses in perceiving, creating, and conveying meaning. Drawing from a wide variety of strategies that involve the senses as a means of inquiry, objects of study, and forms of expression, sensory ethnography has played a fundamental role in the contemporary evolution of ethnography writ large as a reflexive, embodied, situated, and multimodal form of scholarship. The handbook dwellsTrade Review"This is a pivotal volume that invites readers to immerse themselves in the bountiful landscape of sensory ethnography before offering a host of possibilities for its future development as a unique, and crucial, way of knowing about the lifeworlds we collectively inhabit. All ethnographers and qualitative researchers will gain immensely from dwelling within the pages of this beautifully crafted and thought-provoking book".-Andrew C. Sparkes, Leeds Beckett University, UK"Readers should be warned that an avalanche of sensorial vibrations will travel through their veins as they dive into this stellar compilation, which places in conversation the 'giants' of sensory ethnography. Our contemporary world starves for caring and meaningful relations. Sensory ethnography responds to this need, and this volume tells us why". -Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, University of Victoria, Canada"A vital collection of works that will be an instant classic. Under Vannini’s editorship the handbook achieves remarkable coverage and depth. Not only is his introduction a masterful orientation to the essays inside but it establishes clearly and powerfully that this is an essential resource for anyone interested in ethnography".-Craig Campbell, University of Texas, Austin, USATable of Contents1. The qualities of the “new” sensory ethnography: an introduction - Phillip Vannini PART 1: Sensory ethnography: pasts, presents, and futures 2. The rise of sense-based social inquiry: a genealogy of sensory ethnography - David Howes 3. Ethnography and the sounds of everyday life - Michael Bull 4. Knowing through the racialized senses - Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown 5. Getting a grip on new objects, technologies, and sensations through aura, presence, and mimesis - Mark Paterson 6. Sensory degradation and somatic labor: critical sensory ethnography for hypermodern times - Simon Gottschalk 7. Sensory futures ethnography: sensing at the edge of the future - Sarah Pink PART 2: The practice of sensory ethnography 8. Awareness, focus and nuance: reflexivity and reflective embodiment in sensory ethnography - John Hockey and Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson 9. Sensing the city: multisensory participant observation and urban ethnography - Cristina Moretti 10. Talking about felt spaces: on vagueness and clarity in interviews - Mikkel Bille 11. Participatory sensory ethnography: a collaborative methodology for understanding everyday journeys of disabled people - Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada 12. Sensory explorations of digital touch: tactile apprenticeship with new industrial robots - Ned Barker and Carey Jewitt 13. Political, economic, and relational production of sense: negotiating sensory inequality and access in research on cochlear implantation in India - Michele Friedner PART 3: Sensuous and atmospheric ethnographioes of running: comparing running with walking 14. Re-sensing the sensory: evoking senses in a troubled world - Paul Stoller 15. Elemental - Kathleen Stewart 16. Sensuous ethnographies of running: comparing running with walking - Jonas Larsen 17. Constellations of (sensual) relations: space, atmosphere, and sensory design - Erin E. Lynch 18. Feeling helium - Marina Peterson 19. Playful sensuous pedagogies: observations and reflections on teaching sensual ethnography - Dennis D. Waskul PART 4: More-than-human sensory ethnography 20. Toward a multisensorial engagement with animals - Natasha Fijn and Muhammad Kavesh 21. Sensing the cloud: research-creation as sensory anthropology - Kate Hennessy, Trudi Lynn Smith, Steve DiPaola, and Amineh Ahmadi Nejad 22. Beyond the human: a sensory ethnographer’s gaze on sportfishing practice - Vesa Markuksela 23. Sensing dirty matter: sensory ethnography as a more-than-human approach to urban inequalities - Elisa Fiore 24. Resonance: engaging with the more-than-human through Ladakhi soundworlds - Christopher Wright 25. Sensory engagements with lively data: attuning to the convivialities of more-than-human worlds - Deborah Lupton, Ash Watson, and Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor PART 5: Non-representational sensory ethnography 26. Sound walks - Tim Ingold 27. Defamiliarizing the sensory - Tim Edensor 28. Sensing the afterlife: multisensorial ethnography and injured minds - Michelle Charette and Denielle Elliott 29. Staging unmemorials, being haunted: the grievability of Japanese sex workers in the transpacific underground - Ayaka Yoshimizu 30. Non-representational sensory ethnography: creation, attention, and correspondence - Phillip Vannini and April Vannini 31. Sensing scenes: doing sensory ethnography in queer space and time - Kerryn Drysdale and Jan Filmer PART 6: Multimodal sensory ethnography 32. Learning to see, or how to make sense of the skillful things skateboarders do - Sander Hölsgens 33. The sound remains: archiving the senses - Rupert Cox and Junko Konishi 34. Multisensory storytelling: inciting polyvocal polemics in applied ethnography - Beth A Uzwiak 35. Reframing deafness: vision as fieldwork method and documentary art - Andrew Irving 36. Representing sensory culture, enacting community: "the Full English” - Alex Rhys-Taylor 37. Sensory verité: the intersection of sensory ethnography, sensory biophilia, and cinema verité - Kathy Kasic 38. Epilogue: surface tensions - Anna Harris

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Book SynopsisThe Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research challenges normative philosophies that have frequently neglected the body's place in research and then illustrates how the body is essential for all meaning making.By voicing the body', the first part of this rebellious book problematizes how the body is used/assessed, yet often silenced in academic writing. This book then fluidly moves to celebrating the body through discussing taboo topics like sex/sexuality in friendship, underwear (knickers), ageing, and death, as well as how a non-binary body moves in a heteronormative world. Through the lens of Bodyography, this book does research differently illuminating how the body flourishes, excites knowledge, and is complicated when placed on a screen'. This book celebrates a collaborative and arts-based approach. This book is a dialogue between The Bodies Collective, with dialogic resonance sections between each chapter and art pieces throughout.This boTrade Review"This is a rebellious book. It is a response-able book. It is a book that collectively refuses the timidity and the judgementalism, when it comes to bodies, which pervade the social and psychological sciences. The Bodies Collective challenges the absence of bodies, and the tendency to construe them as matter that is unspeakable, unthinkable, irrelevant, superficial and even abject, in the context of research and research writing. This book challenges that contempt for, and fear of, the body, as it develops collaborative ways of working that move beyond that familiar version of the disembodied researcher. It is thus a courageous work that the Bodies Collective undertakes here, as they map out ways of working together that are safe, engaging, intimate, erotic, playful, and mobile. Through their collaboration with each other, they map out an academic skinship that enables each, singly and collectively, to flourish, in the pursuit of new understandings that begin with the matter and mattering of intra-acting bodies." -- Bronwyn Davies. Independent scholar, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor Western Sydney University, Australia"Challenging the Cartesian legacy, this important text will alert readers to hitherto neglected epistemic possibilities. Although the idea of texts without bodies has never made sense, much writing is tacitly body-silencing, thus – by extension – body-shaming. This is strange because the body is always thoroughly textualized and textualizing, in interaction and intra-action, and the embodied other is always you. In a marvellous, ground-breaking style, this book puts voice back into bodies, where it belongs." -- Alec Grant, PhD, Visiting Professor, University of Bolton, UK"An intimate, reflexive account of how to ‘be with’, ‘work with’, ‘stay with’ one’s body in an academic context. This book is not a simple cookbook with ready-to-go recipes on doing bodyography. It is an invitation to use some of its prompts affirmatively on the beautiful, rich methodological playfield qualitative scholars are currently creating for themselves." -- Karin Hannes, Professor in Transdisciplinary Studies and Creative Research methodology. Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium. Coordinator research group SoMeTHin’K; Curator Townsquare13; European Network Qualitative Inquiry."This book sparkles … it is a delicious read/ quite a romp/ into voicing the bodies…/ and staying with the trouble so hang on to your knickers/ readerseach jewel written at an angle/tells the truth but ‘tells it slant’ to polyamorous academia/ we the readers/ are included on the blind date and invited in to the friendship between this group of scholarly oddkinwriting image/full; seriously play/full and deeply lyrical/ excoriating texts together we / the readers become part of the resonation processand climb insideexperiences of dysmorphia and grief/ finding ourselves voices that have been disquietingly silenced in the academy/ we seem/ reading this book/ always to have had our knickers onbackwards read this book! you too will explore your response-abilityfrom the ache in the small of your back to your optic nerve/ you will laugh a lot and cry - and sometimes sob at / with the embodied/ poignant/ piercing beauty of it all… so …read this book!" -- Jane Speedy. Emeritus Professor of Education (Qualitative Inquiry) University of Bristol, UK"The Collaborative Body unfolds like a folk dance as chapter by chapter, each participant in The Bodies Collective takes the lead in turn, sharing unique insight that centres the body/ies as origin and site of inquiry, as inquirer, as act of inquiring, while the others (readers included) witness, then respond. Aligning with post-feminist, post-modern, post-human efforts at restoring the unity and connectedness of body-mind(s), this work leads the way for a new generation of scholars who are done with pretending their thoughts and minds exist beyond their embodiment. Relatable, accessible, enabling and a delight to clap along to, from first encounter to final breath this book reads as a processual creative act, birthing the field of Bodyography into being." -- Melissa Dunlop PhD, Psychotherapist, Researcher & Writer, Collaborative Artful Narrative Inquiry Network."This book is a breath of fresh air, a manuscript that teaches us alternative ways of researching and collaborating, allowing us to rethink the role of bodies in academia. The bodies collective presents us with a lively methodology full of humanity, creativity and corporeality. This book teaches us to collaborate organically and to know and write about what is submerged in our bodies, teaching us ways to reach beyond words." -- Inés Bárcenes Taland, Associate Professor at Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid, Spain.The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research constitutes one of the most body-centered research tools in the fields of qualitative inquiry. Packed with accessible exploratory activities and examples, The Collaborative Body illustrates methodologies of compassionate critique, international collaborations, and politically personal communions. I recommend accepting their collective invitation to become a Bodyographer." -- Tami Spry, Body, Paper, Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Performance Studies, St. Cloud State University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: We are the Bodies Collective. Researchers Working towards Change through Bodyography 1. Voicing the Unspeakable Body: The Politics of Appearance and the Silence that Pervades Academic Discourse Resonances to Chapter 1. Conversation with the Bodies Collective Around Power and Privilege 2. Embodied Friendship and Explicit Autoethnography: When is it Ok to Talk about Cis Women’s Bodies and Sex? Resonances to Chapter 2. Abject autoethnography: A Conversation 3. (Un)dressing the body: Underwear Stories and Audio-found-poetry Resonances to Chapter 3. The Academic Life of Knickers discussion 4: Uncovering the Non-Binary Body: Using Bodyography to Discover Gender Identity and Combat Body Dysmorphia Resonances to Chapter 4. The Presence of Absence and Other Refractions of Gender Identity 5. Equivalencies. Creative Rituals, the Ageing Body and Grief Resonances to Chapter 5. The Presence of Absence and the Twelfthtight Nights Through Creative Serious Play 6. Snacks from Cooking After the Bodyography Recipe: The Body as an Epistemological Entity Resonances to Chapter 6. Between Academic Skinship and Authorship – Cultivating Different Tastes and Appetites 7. Talking / Walking to Myself: Questioning the Primacy of the Word Resonances to Chapter 7. Matter as Mattering 8. Doing Online Embodied Research: Researching Together, Apart Resonances to Chapter 8: I Am Always in Relation to You, Whatever Form We Take Together An Ending to the Book and a Beginning of Sorts: Of Bodies, Organs, Time and Space

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a rationale for a Christian sociology, challenging the materialist epistemology of contemporary sociology, which provides only a limited understanding of social behavior. Developing a history of the origins of sociology that recognizes the centrality of Christianity to the discipline's development, it considers the secularization thesis and questions surrounding positivism, scientism and postmodernism, as well as engaging with the work of a range of figures including Margaret Archer, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, Hans Joas, Thomas Luckmann, David Martin, and Christian Smith. A critique of modern sociology, which argues that a Christian approach provides a better explanation than contemporary paradigms of the polarization occurring today in American society, The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology will appeal to scholars and students with interests in sociological theory, research methods and epistemology, and the sociology of religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Christianity and a Brief Prehistory of Sociology 2. Sociology as a Substitute for Christianity 3. Sociology Comes to the United States 4. Positivism, Scienticism and the Rejection of a Moral Sociology 5. The Secularization Thesis 6. The Default Position of the Intelligentsia: Postmodernism and Scientific Materialism 7. A New Sociology of Religion? 8. The Not So Outrageous Idea of a Christian Sociology

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Book SynopsisQualitative Researcher Vulnerability provides conceptual, experiential, and practical insights into the vulnerability of the qualitative researcher. Compared to participants' vulnerability, researcher vulnerability has seen limited attention in the qualitative research process, but yet it is an important consideration.Drawing on an interdisciplinary group of authorsacross criminology, education, feminisms, geography, health, kinesiology, nursing, management and organisation, policy, political science, psychology, sociology, and qualitative inquiry writ broadthe book explores the ways in which we might understand and work with researcher vulnerability, most notably in relation to ethics, risk, empathy, emotion, and power. Ultimately, the authors suggest researcher vulnerability is a vital component of our research practices throughout the research process, for emerging as well as experienced researchers. Whilst researcher vulnerability can be something to protect agaiTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Relevance and Importance of Researcher Vulnerability in Qualitative Research 1. Vulnerability, the Pursuit of Knowledge, and the Humanity of Doing Research; Section I: Strategies for Negotiating Researcher Vulnerability 2. Research Journaling to Deal with Vulnerabilities in Research 3. Qualitative Analysis in Online Research: Protecting Against Researcher Vulnerabilities 4. Supporting Emotionally Demanding Research: Developing Guidance for a University Research Centre 5. Addressing Researcher Vulnerability with the Trauma and Resilience Informed Research Principles and Practices Framework; Section II: Experiences of Researcher Vulnerability 6. Sticking Your Head Above the Parapet: On the Importance of Researcher Resilience in Auto/biographical Writing 7. Affecting Accounts: Autobiographical Memoirs and the Vulnerable Researcher 8. Researcher, Fighter, Cunt: Vulnerability and Violence in the MMA Field 9. Ethnographic Vulnerabilities: Power, Politics, and Possibility; Section III: Embracing Researcher Vulnerability 10. Femme Praxis: Using Femme Theory to Foster Vulnerability within Research Design and Institutions 11. Framing Transdisciplinary Research as an Assemblage: A Case Study from a Mental Health Setting 12. ‘Please Explain to Me How I’m Vulnerable’: Learning How to Rework Experiences of Researcher Vulnerability by Listening Carefully to Care-Experienced Young People

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Book SynopsisBodying Postqualitative Research posits the question of what happens when lived, fleshy human bodies engage in postqualitative research in education. It takes as its central concern research propositions aimed at dismantling the structures of humanism that typically govern research in education and uses postqualitative conceptions of data, methodology, and clarity in conjunction with insights from feminist science studies scholars to imagine how we might body' postqualitative work.This book uses the provocations offered by postqualitative research and takes these touchpoints to dismantle dominant logics of research, born of neoliberalism and ongoing settler colonialism to offer alternative perspectives. Importantly, this book stays near to the body by proposing caffeine shakes, antipsychotic medications, and scars as moments to take seriously how bodies do researching practices. After each chapter, the book turns to poetry as a fracture or a moment of disruption to tTable of ContentsIntroduction to the SeriesWritten by Dr. Simone Fullagar, Series Co-editorIntroductionWhere we are HeadedFour Critical Moves to Hold NearBodyingFissures and FracturesPhysiologiesPostqualitative ProvocationsMoving into the Body of the BookChapter One: Biocultural Creatures, Postqualitative Data, and Caffeine ShakesBiocultural CreaturesComposite-in-TensionPostqualitative DataBodying Postqualitative Research: Caffeine ShakesFracture One: MinnowsChapter Two: Biomedical Imaginaries, Methodology, and Antipsychotic MedicationsBiomedical ImaginariesNeurobiological BodiesPostqualitative MethodologiesBodying Postqualitative Research: Antipsychotic MedicationsFracture Two: Turing Test_LoveChapter Three: Biopossibility, Clarity, and ScarsBiopossibilityA Topological Sense of BiopoliticsPostqualitative ClarityBodying Postqualitative Research: ScarsFracture Three: FermentationChapter Four: Pedagogical Inquiry Work, Proprioception, and a Sweaty QuadProprioceptionA Sweaty Quad Fracture Four: Childless OffspringConclusion: Bodying Postqualitative ResearchProposition One: Imagine how postqualitative relations with the biosciences might proceedProposition Two: Build otherwise imaginaries and lexicons for doing bodies with postqualitative proposalsProposition Three: Craft ways to intentionally, but not anthropocentrically, body postqualitative researchFinal Gesture: On Education ResearchReferences

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