Real world research is a common responsibility of professionals and practitioners in a wide range of both public and private settings. These include teachers, social workers and health service professionals, managers and specialists in business, architects, designers, criminologists and accountants among many others. Real World Research provides a clear route-map of the various steps needed to carry out a piece of applied research to a high professional standard. It is accessible to those without a social science background while providing rigorous and fully up-to-date coverage of contemporary issues and debates.

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This successful text on carrying out research in 'real world' situations has been thoroughly revised and updated in order to make it as useful as possible to teachers and students from a range of behavioral and social science disciplines. • • Includes new examples from applied psychology, applied social science, health studies, social work and education. • Provides more coverage of qualitative methods. • Pedagogical material has been updated to include a glossary and detailed cross-referencing across chapters. • Bases the quantitative analysis section around version 10 of SPSS and the section on qualitative analysis around the NUD*IST software. • Situates material more clearly within theoretical conceptualizations of the nature of social science research, pointing to the advantages of a critical realist approach.