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by Nicholas Stephen Robert Walliman (Author)
Nicholas Walliman is the supervisor in your students′ pockets, making sure they understand all the essential methods for successfully carrying out a research project and negotiating the challenges and pitfalls. In this book, he:
- Takes students step-by-step through the research process
- Helps them formulate clear aims and objectives
- Explains all the vocabulary to understand the A - Z of research methods
- Ends each chapter with a reading guide for taking learning further with more resources to help get a deeper understanding of the issues discussed
- Improves research reports with practical advice on presenting findings in great tables, graphs and diagrams
- Opens his office door with reflective questions (and answers)
- Delivers the confidence to get started and get finished!
Social Research Methods: The Essentials is the perfect starting point and guide for your students′ research project.
Author Biography
After twenty years in architectural practice in Scotland, England and Switzerland designing a wide range of buildings, industrial, commercial, residential, and renovating and restoring historic buildings, I returned to academic activities when I embarked on a Ph.D. at Oxford Brookes University.
As Senior Researcher, Oxford Institute of Sustainable Development - Architectural Engineering Group, my research was based mainly on the technology of building construction - innovative, existing and historic, on vernacular architecture, and issues regarding accessibility in buildings and surroundings. My published papers and reports are read internationally and have been presented at international conferences.
