Designing and Conducting Research in Social Science, Health and Social Care

ISBN-13: 9780815372431 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 238 str.

Fiona McSweeney; Dave Williams

Opis

This accessible book presents a novel and accessible way to learn about designing and conducting social research. Unlike traditional social research methods books, it provides a ‘real world’ account of social researchers’ experiences and learning achieved through conducting research in a variety of fields.

Spis treści

List of contributors;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction (Fiona McSweeney and Dave Williams);  1. Gatekeepers: The Experience of Conducting Research in a Prison Setting (Nicola Hughes);  2. Suicide Research: What have we Learned about Conducting Sensitive Research with Vulnerable Populations? (Evelyn Gordon and Maeve Kenny);  3. Ensuring the Active Participation of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Research: Implications for Researchers and Professionals (Judit Fullana and Maria Pallisera);  4. To Choose and to Participate: Lessons from Researching with Children and Young People (Florbela M. Samagaio);  5. Managing Relationships in the Field: Practitioner Research with the Travelling Community (Tamsin Cavaliero);  6. Between Policy and Practice: Ethical Challenges in Longitudinal Social Work Research with Street Youth (Jeff Karabanow and Ian Stewart);  7. Cream Cakes, Hungry Cats and Hugs: Developing a Responsive Strategy to Asking Sensitive Questions and Hearing the Answers (Sharon Mallon);  8. Measuring Individual Change using Open Card Sort Data (Raegan Murphy and Emma Hurley);  9. Choosing Constructivist Grounded Theory to Explore Children’s Experiences of Disclosing Sexual Abuse (Rosaleen McElvaney);  10. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Data Collection and Analysis (Gerard Moore);  11. The Politics and Ethics of Research into ‘Wicked’ Social Problems: The Case of Jimmy Savile at Duncroft (Mark Smith);  12. A Post Qualitative, Transdisciplinary, Close Reading of Child and Youth Care and the Capacity of Love (Hans Skott-Myhre and Kathleen S.G. Skott-Myhre);  13. Using Documents to Examine the Meanings of Childhood: A Figurational Perspective (Paddy Dolan);  14. Theoretical Frameworks in Research: Lessons from a Study Examining the Experiences of Birth Children of Foster Carers (Dave Williams);  15. Constructing a Knowledge through Research: Examples from Research on Practice Teaching (Fiona McSweeney);  16. Indicators and Strategies to Develop Credible Outcomes in Qualitative Research: Young People, Compliance and Community Supervision (Mairead Seymour and Ben Meehan); Index