Researchers sometimes work in settings which are potentially dangerous to their health and safety. For example, they can be vulnerable to violent confrontation, verbal abuse or infectious diseases. This volume explores the contexts, settings and situations which pose high physical risk to the fieldworker, and presents the strategies the author has developed for reducing the risks.
Raymond Lee draws on his own experience in Northern Ireland, as well as on the work of other researchers with groups such as outlaw bikers and youth gangs, drug addicts and informants in inherently dangerous...
Researchers sometimes work in settings which are potentially dangerous to their health and safety. For example, they can be vulnerable to violent conf...
The use of computers in qualitative research has redefined the way social researchers handle qualitative data. Two leading researchers in the field have written this lucid text on the principal approaches in qualitative research and show how the leading computer programs are used in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS).
The use of computers in qualitative research has redefined the way social researchers handle qualitative data. Two leading researchers in the field ha...
This book is a clear, comprehensive guide to the methodological, ethical and practical issues involved in undertaking research on sensitive topics. socially contentious: its relation to issues of social power, its capacity to encroach on people's lives, and its potentially problematic nature for the researcher. He assesses the key questions in how to undertake sensitive research: the choice of methodologies for sensitive research; problems of estimating the size of hidden populations; questions of sampling, surveying and interviewing; sensitivity in access and in the handling of data....
This book is a clear, comprehensive guide to the methodological, ethical and practical issues involved in undertaking research on sensitive topics. so...
Accessible and practical overview to help social reseachers make the most of information technology in relation to research design and selection, management and analysis of research data. The book pinpoints current and future trends in computer-assisted methods.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate social research methods courses and professional social researchers in sociology, social policy and administration, social psychology and geography. Particular appeal to courses in computer applications for social scientists.
Accessible and practical overview to help social reseachers make the most of information technology in relation to research design and selection, mana...
