Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Walking as Critical Pedagogy
1st Edition
By Maggie O'Neill, Danielle O'Donovan, John Barimo, Gerard Mullally, Amin Sharifi Isaloo, Kieran Keohane, Tom Spalding, Katharina Swirak, Tom Boland, Ray Griffin
September 16, 2025
Defining the principles and practices of walking as critical pedagogy, this book engages with social questions and challenges related to understandings of the Anthropocene. Through a series of chapters that operationalize walking as a form of participatory pedagogy, it explores issues including ...
Interviews as Activated Storytelling: Contexts and Subjectivities
1st Edition
Edited
By Amir B. Marvasti, Jaber F. Gubrium
May 30, 2025
Challenging the sanitized view of participants in standardized surveys, Interviews as Activated Storytelling contends that interviewing is a meaning-making process producing useful but context-sensitive knowledge. Through a series of case studies, the book illustrates that participants are not ...
The Meaning of Contemplation for Social Qualitative Research: Applications and Examples
1st Edition
By Krzysztof T. Konecki
May 27, 2024
This book offers an account of contemplative reflection in qualitative social research. Focusing on the experiences of the researcher – including sensory and emotional experiences – and the work of the mind in the investigative process, it considers the means by which the researcher’s basic ...
Algorithm Audit: Why, What, and How?
1st Edition
By Biagio Aragona
May 31, 2023
Seeking to increasing the social awareness of citizens, institutions, and corporations with regard to the risks presented by the acritical use of algorithms in decision-making, this book explains the rationale and the methods of algorithm audit. Interdisciplinary in approach, it provides a ...
Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach
1st Edition
By John Paley
May 31, 2023
Concept analysis is an established genre of inquiry in nursing, introduced in the 1970s. Currently, over 100 concept studies are published annually, yet the methods used within this field have rarely been questioned. In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, Paley provides a critical analysis...
Crafting Ethnographic Fieldwork: Sites, Selves, and Social Worlds
1st Edition
Edited
By Amir B. Marvasti, Jaber F. Gubrium
April 19, 2023
Through a series of case studies, this book provides an understanding of the practice of ethnographic fieldwork in a variety of contexts, from everyday settings to formal institutions. Demonstrating that ethnography is best viewed as a series of site-specific challenges, it showcases ethnographic ...
Behind the Scenes in Social Research: How Practical and Personal Matters Affect a Project
1st Edition
By Herbert J. Rubin
December 30, 2022
Behind the Scenes in Social Research discusses the informal, adaptive, and real-life process of doing social science research. It complements the material in standard methods texts that describe the basics—how to choose topics and ways of obtaining and analyzing data—but in doing so miss out on ...
Participatory Case Study Work: Approaches, Authenticity and Application in Ageing Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Sion Williams, John Keady
August 01, 2022
Participatory Case Study Work shows academic co-researchers how to adapt and implement their methods so that data collection and analysis is authentically participatory. At the heart of this text is advocating a participatory approach to case study work, with co-construction as a catalyst for ...
Social Causation and Biographical Research: Philosophical, Theoretical and Methodological Arguments
1st Edition
By Giorgos Tsiolis, Michalis Christodoulou
May 30, 2022
This book extends debates in the field of biographical research, arguing that causal explanations are not at odds with biographical research and that biographical research is in fact a valuable tool for explaining why things in social and personal lives are one way and not another. Bringing ...
Silences, Neglected Feelings, and Blind-Spots in Research Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathy Davis, Janice Irvine
May 19, 2022
This book addresses wide-ranging dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their research. In every research endeavour, thoughts, intuitions, biases, feelings or sensations may be left aside as the researcher attempts to come to terms ...
Diagramming the Social: Relational Method in Research
1st Edition
By Russell Dudley-Smith, Natasha Whiteman
April 29, 2022
This book challenges the hyper-production and proliferation of concepts in modern social research. It presents a distinctive methodological response to this tendency through an exploration of one of the most underappreciated yet widely deployed conventions for the analysis of social processes: the ...
Beyond Disciplinarity: Historical Evolutions of Research Epistemology
1st Edition
By Catherine Hayes, John Fulton, Andrew Livingstone, Claire Todd, Stephen Capper, Peter Smith
December 23, 2020
This book provides a means of comprehensively grounding and considering the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of practice-based research epistemologies. By introducing readers to the diverse array of methodological tools and concepts that are necessary to underpin postgraduate ...