Highly Recommended
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.

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Discovering Statistics Using SPSS By Andy Field, 2009
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Handling Qualitative Data: A Practical Guide By Lyn Richards, 2009 |

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From Numbers to Words: Reporting Statistical Results for the Social Sciences By Tom Reichert, Susan Morgan, and Tyler Harrison, 2002
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Readme First for a User’s Guide to Qualitative Methods By Lyn Richards and Janet Morse, 2007
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Business Research Methods By Alan Bryman and Emma Bell, 2011
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Social Research Methods By Alan Bryman, 2012
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Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches By John Creswell, 2007
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Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook By Matthew Miles and Michael Huberman, 1994
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Recommended
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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