Routledge Advances in Research Methods
Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research: A Reflexive Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Louise Phillips, Marianne Kristiansen, Marja Vehviläinen, Ewa Gunnarsson
May 21, 2015
Collaborative research embraces a multiplicity of practices in which social actors are invited to participate in the research process as co-producers of knowledge. But what is actually meant by “co-production” in collaborative research? Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research presents a...
Research and Social Change: A Relational Constructionist Approach
1st Edition
By Sheila McNamee, Dian Marie Hosking
October 03, 2013
This book bridges scholarly forms of inquiry and practitioners’ daily activities. It introduces inquiry as a process of relational construction, offering resources to practitioners who want to reflect on how their work generates practical effects. There are hundreds of books on research, but in ...
Multi-Sited Ethnography: Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods
1st Edition
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By Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann
May 23, 2013
This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George ...
E-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas W. Jankowski
July 27, 2012
No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many ...
The Mutual Construction of Statistics and Society
1st Edition
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By Ann Rudinow Saetnan, Heidi Mork Lomell, Svein Hammer
May 09, 2012
Statistics are often seen as simple, straightforward, and objective descriptions of society. However, what we choose to count, what we choose not to count, who does the counting, and the categories and values we choose to apply when counting, matter. This volume addresses the ways in which ...