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Cover How to do Action Research for Transformations
How to do Action Research for Transformations
At a Time of Eco-Social Crisis
Hilary Bradbury

Capturing years of innovation within contemporary action research, Hilary Bradbury highlights where action research for transformations (ART) is directed: towards responding to climate change and achieving global sustainability goals. Paying particular attention to social justice, the book brings together the human and social sciences, exploring the impact action research can make.

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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Jun 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373051
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development
Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development
Edited by Randy Stoecker and Adrienne Falcón
This Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD). Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves and bringing about systemic change.
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08 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100970
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2022
Cover How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully
How to Lead Academic Departments Successfully
Edited by Adam Lindgreen, Alan Irwin, Flemming Poulfelt, and Thyra U. Thomsen
It is an old cliché that leading and managing academics is like herding cats. This book challenges this myth and presents a way to deal with the many challenges of academic leadership, from managing departments, research groups and teams to managing tensions between research and teaching. The book is a practical and stimulating guide to different pathways to successful academic leadership, both in personal and organizational terms.
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07 Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907155
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover How to Enhance Your Research
How to Enhance Your Research
100 Practical Tips for Academics
Don J. Webber
Accessible in its style, yet comprehensive in content, this groundbreaking book provides a wealth of advice on how academics can enhance their research practices. It also highlights the fundamental role of research leaders and how their support can prove invaluable to academics in improving their research methodology.
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Published:
09 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978095
Collection:
Economics 2021
Cover How to be a Reflexive Researcher
How to be a Reflexive Researcher
Paul Hibbert
This stimulating and challenging book provides a guide to reflexivity and reflexive practice, explaining its relevance to research in management, organisation studies and the social sciences. Rooted in the latest research, case studies and the author’s personal experience, the book builds a new perspective on reflexive practice involving bodily, emotional, rational and relational insights.
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Published:
05 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839101854
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning
Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning
An Essential Companion
Edited by Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Jonathan Corcoran, and Robert Stimson
This unique book demonstrates the utility of big data approaches in human geography and planning. Offering a carefully curated selection of case studies, it reveals how researchers are accessing big data, what this data looks like and how such data can offer new and important insights and knowledge.
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07 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909791
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Tools, Methods, Challenges and Strategies
Edited by M. R. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, and Mashitah B. Hamidi
This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field.
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07 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376328
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover Handbook for Sustainable Tourism Practitioners
Handbook for Sustainable Tourism Practitioners
The Essential Toolbox
Edited by Anna Spenceley
Offering how-to tools and step-by-step guidance, this practical Handbook combines academic insight with extensive professional experience to outline best practice in undertaking environmental, socio-cultural and economic assessments that establish the feasibility of new tourism ventures and ascertains their impact over time.
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13 Apr 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100895
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
Cover Decision-Making for Sustainable Transport and Mobility
Decision-Making for Sustainable Transport and Mobility
Multi Actor Multi Criteria Analysis
Edited by Cathy Macharis and Gino Baudry
Multi-Actor Multi-Criteria Analysis (MAMCA) developed by Professor Cathy Macharis enables decision-makers within the sectors of transport, mobility and logistics to account for conflicting stakeholder interests. This book draws on 15 years of research and application during which MAMCA has been deployed to support sustainable decisions within the transport and mobility sectors.
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Published:
28 Sep 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788111805
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science
Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science
Theory and Applications
Edited by Eve Mitleton-Kelly, Alexandros Paraskevas, and Christopher Day
This comprehensive Handbook is aimed at both academic researchers and practitioners in the field of complexity science. The book’s 26 chapters, specially written by leading experts, provide in-depth coverage of research methods based on the sciences of complexity. The research methods presented are illustratively applied to practical cases and are readily accessible to researchers and decision makers alike.
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Handbook
Published:
26 Jan 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785364426
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2018