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These books will be useful for both qualitative and quantitative researchers, and reflect texts that either we've found invaluable in our own research or those that our clients have recommended to us. Please note that clicking on the title of each book will take you through to the Fishpond website, where you can purchase the book and find further information.


Discovering Statistics Using SPSS
By Andy Field, 2009

Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide
By Lyn Richards, 2009

From Numbers to Words: Reporting Statistical Results for the Social Sciences
By Tom Reichert, Susan Morgan, and Tyler Harrison, 2002

Readme First for a User’s Guide to Qualitative Methods
By Lyn Richards and Janet Morse, 2007

Business Research Methods
By Alan Bryman and Emma Bell, 2011

Social Research Methods
By Alan Bryman, 2012

Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches
By John Creswell, 2007

Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook
By Matthew Miles and Michael Huberman, 1994

 

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For further information regarding each of the books below, or to purchase through Fishpond, please click on the book title.


Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th Edition)
By The American Psychological Association, 2009

How to Get a PhD
By Estelle Phillips and Derek Pugh, 2010

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
By Joan Bolker, 1998

Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
By Hugh Coolican, 2009

Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
By Patricia Bazeley, 2007

The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers
By Johnny Saldana, 2009

Qualitative Research Design for Software Users
By Judith Davidson and Silvana Di Gregorio, 2009

Basics of Qualitative Research: Techniques and Procedures for Developing Grounded Theory
By Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss, 2008

Transcription Techniques for the Spoken Word
By Willow Roberts Powers, 2005

Constructing Grounded Theory
By Kathy Charmaz, 2006

Doing Interviews
Steinar Kvale, 2008

Case Study Research
By Robert Yin, 2008

Successful Writing for Qualitative Researchers
Peter Woods, 2005

Writing Up Qualitative Research
By Harry Wolcott, 2009

Using Multivariate Statistics
By Barbara Tabachnick and Linda Fidell, 2006

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics
By Neil Salkind, 2010

SPSS Survival Manual
By Julie Pallant, 2010

Reading and Understanding Multivariate Statistics
By Laurence Grimm and Paul Yarnold, 1995

The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis
By Harris Cooper, Larry Hedges, and Jeffrey Valentine, 2009

An Easy Guide to Factor Analysis
By Paul Kline, 1994

SPSS: Analysis without Anguish
By Sheridan Coakes, 2009

Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches
By John Creswell, 2008

Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research
By John Creswell, 2010

Analysing Qualitative Data
By Graham Gibbs, 2008
 

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