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The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research

The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research

The contemporary world currently faces multi-level challenges including cross-border migration economic crises and myriad health issues including the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Within this wider context of ongoing fluidity transition and diversity qualitative research methodologies in psychology are rapidly evolving featuring innovative ways to examine the dynamic interrelation of societal and psychological processes. The Routledge International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research sets the stage for cutting-edge debates on how innovative approaches in qualitative research in psychology can contribute to tackling current challenges in our society. The handbook depicts innovation in qualitative research in psychology with respect to methodological approaches like visual methods arts-based research discursive and narrative approaches multimodal approaches and pluralistic/mixed methodology approaches. It addresses a wide range of contemporary challenging topics at the intersection of the psychological with the societal sphere like globalization climate change digitalization urbanization social marginalization gender and sexism youth cultures global mobility and global health risks. The book also includes contributions from various European countries across different fields of psychology like clinical health social educational environmental developmental organizational political and media psychology. This is a valuable text for anyone teaching qualitative research courses in psychology as well as in related disciplines like mental health education and sociology. It will also be of great interest to any qualitative researcher in the behavioral and social sciences wishing to have an overview of the latest developments in the field.

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The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods

As an evolving and contested field urban design has been made unmade and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It is now a decisive moment for urban design to reflect on its rigour and relevance. This handbook is an attempt to seize this moment for urban design to further develop its theoretical and methodological knowledge base and engage with the question of what urban design can be with a primary focus on its research. This handbook includes contributions from both established and emerging scholars across the global North and global South to provide a more field-specific entry point by introducing a range of topics and lines of inquiry and discussing how they can be explored with a focus on the related research designs and methods. The specific aim scope and structure of this handbook are appealing to a range of audiences interested and/or involved in shaping places and public spaces. What makes this book quite distinctive from conventional handbooks on research methods is the way it has been structured in relation to some key research topics and questions in the field of urban design regarding the issues of agency affordance place informality and performance. In addition to the introduction chapter this handbook includes 80 contributors and 52 chapters organised into five parts. The commissioned chapters showcase a wide range of topics research designs and methods with references to relevant scholarly works on the related topics and methods. | The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods

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Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Approaches in Ageing Research

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The Routledge Companion to Design Research

The Routledge Companion to Design Research

This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Design Research offers an updated comprehensive examination of design research celebrating a plurality of voices and range of conceptual methodological technological and theoretical approaches evident in contemporary design research. This volume comprises thirty-eight original and high-quality design research chapters from contributors around the world with offerings from the vast array of disciplines in and around modern design praxis including areas such as industrial and product design visual communication interaction design fashion design service design engineering and architecture. The Companion is divided into four distinct sections with chapters that examine the nature and process of design research the purpose of design research and how one might embark on design research. They also explore how leading design researchers conduct their design research through formulating and asking questions in novel ways and the creative methods and tools they use to collect and analyse data. The Companion also includes a number of case studies that illustrate how one might best communicate and disseminate design research through contributions that offer techniques for writing and publicising research. The Routledge Companion to Design Research has a wide appeal to researchers and educators in design and design-related disciplines such as engineering business marketing and computing and will make an invaluable contribution to state-of-the-art design research at postgraduate doctoral and post-doctoral levels and teaching across a wide range of different disciplines.

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The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis

Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods

Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods

The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation toward national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data social media and phenomena like fake news populism or questions of global health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established FPA methods. Embracing methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open discussion about methods’ assumptions and diverging positions it provides new state-of-the-art research approaches as well as introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter follows the same approach introducing the method and its development discussing strengths requirements limitations and potential pitfalls while illustrating the method’s application using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological pluralism and problem-oriented research that engages with real-world questions the authors examine quantitative and qualitative traditions rationalist and interpretivist perspectives as well as different substantive backgrounds. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in global politics foreign policy and methods-related classes across the social sciences. Chapters 4 25 and 32 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods

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First Steps In Research and Statistics A Practical Workbook for Psychology Students

The Routledge International Handbook of Autoethnography in Educational Research

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

Domestic and Regional Environmental Laws and Policies in Africa A Research Companion

Domestic and Regional Environmental Laws and Policies in Africa A Research Companion

This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability. Written by African experts the collection consists of five parts covering the whole of Africa. It provides broad coverage of specific themes including environmental constitutionalism climate change gender and the environment wildlife trade environmental justice and human displacement. The key aims are first to explore theoretical and empirical studies to interrogate and provide clarity on academic discourse on how and whether environmental human rights approaches and policy implications have effectively enhanced environmental protection and sustainability at African domestic levels. Second to investigate and present innovative solutions on how African domestic legal regimes deal with environmental justice natural resources governance refugees’ environmental rights and climate-induced displaced persons. Finally to propose innovative legal and institutionalised solutions to Africa’s ecological realities by determining the legal and regulatory gaps on environmental human rights issues on the continent. The collection will be a valuable resource for researchers academics and policymakers in human rights law environmental law political science ecology and conservation environmental management disaster management and development studies. | Domestic and Regional Environmental Laws and Policies in Africa A Research Companion

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The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Participatory Inquiry in Transnational Research Contexts illustrates how research guided by the emancipatory epistemology of critical participatory inquiry (CPI) can support social change in transnational contexts which are inherently laden with unequal power dynamics and colonial structures. It builds on prior volumes in participatory action research community-based participatory research and decolonizing methodologies. This edited volume offers cases from across the Global South and Global North and from diverse disciplines including human rights migration education health youth studies and development to demonstrate how CPI can fulfill its democratizing and decolonizing potential. Written primarily by new and emerging scholars practitioners and community leaders these cases go on to illustrate how a critical participatory approach to transnational research can enhance the strength of research processes and findings create more equitable and just experiences for those who participate as co-researchers and facilitate social change. Providing a valuable framework for transnational CPI and a wealth of examples it will be an invaluable read for undergraduate and graduate students of Development Studies Healthcare disciplines Education and qualitative research. It will also be of interest to researchers professionals community leaders and even funders and policymakers who want to work toward greater equity and social justice in transnational research contexts.

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Human Rights and the Environment in Africa A Research Companion

Human Rights and the Environment in Africa A Research Companion

The relationship between human rights and the environment as evidenced by the 2022 UN Resolution on the human right to a healthy environment is a topical fascinating uneasy and increasingly urgent one. This timely collection explores the inextricable relationship between human rights and the environment as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key human rights and environmental issues confronting Africa. The work explores theoretical philosophical and doctrinal research to interrogate and provide clarity on how and whether the human rightsbased approach to environmental protection and policy implications has been effective in enhancing environmental protection and sustainability in Africa. It brings together an elite group of African and international experts to investigate the increasing connectivity and problems with African human rights environmental governance and the quest for sustainability. The book is divided into thematic clusters including the right of vulnerable communities to sustainability; climate change the right to development and natural resource governance; corporate environmental responsibility and sustainability; the philosophy of environmental ethics and theories of human rights approaches to environmental governance; procedural environmental rights; the role of the judiciary in environmental protection; and desertification. These themes provide a structure to investigate and clarify specific fundamental questions on Africa’s environmental governance paradigm. This innovative contribution provides an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical interrelationship and use of human rights approaches to ensure and enhance environmental protection and sustainability. As such the book will be of interest to African scholars researchers and students in human rights law environmental studies political science ecology and conservation and development studies. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers governments NGOs practitioners and all those interested in African environmental governance. | Human Rights and the Environment in Africa A Research Companion

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning

Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health Sciences Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Research Theory and Practice

Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health Sciences Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Research Theory and Practice

This ground-breaking book combines research and practice in the rapidly growing field of Positive Psychology with the fastest-growing medical speciality of Lifestyle Medicine. Section 1 maps out the new field of positive health by exploring the scope content and architecture of this rapidly emerging area of research. It explores research findings and applications derived from Lifestyle Medicine and Positive Psychology that are critical for positive health. Section 2 delves into positive health research covering topics such as using character strengths to improve health maximising psychological wellbeing from head to toe optimising gut health and understanding the relationships between mind and body. Section 3 offers guidance on applying the principles of positive health by describing new Positive Health Interventions (PHIs) introducing innovative positive health coaching models and exploring the contribution of positive psychology to health equity. The book is ideal for medical doctors nurses and health professionals interested in helping their patients flourish psychologically and physically. It is an invaluable guide for social workers positive psychologists coaches and mental health professionals who want to explore the physiological dimensions of wellbeing. | Routledge International Handbook of Positive Health Sciences Positive Psychology and Lifestyle Medicine Research Theory and Practice

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The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research

The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research

The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research presents a cohesive framework with which to conduct practice-based research or to support manage and supervise practice-based researchers. It has been written with an inclusive approach with the intention of presenting deep and meaningful knowledge for the benefit of all readers. This handbook has been designed to present specific detail of practice-based research by outlining its shared traits with all forms of research and to highlight its core distinguishing features into a cohesive principled and methodical approach. To this end the handbook is presented in five sections: 1. Practice-Based Research 2. Knowledge 3. Method 4. The Practice-Based PhD and 5. Practitioner Voices. Each section begins with a leading chapter that outlines each of the distinct areas as they relate to practice-based research. This is followed by a series of contributing chapters that discuss pertinent themes in more detail. Practitioners from a broad range of backgrounds will find these chapters helpful: research students or final year graduates will be introduced to the principled nature of practice-based research PhD researchers embarking on a research project or are in the flow of research will find this guidance supportive professionals such as designers makers engineers artists and creative technologists wishing to strengthen their research into their practice will be guided through the principled and focused nature of practice-based research supervisors managers and policy makers will benefit from the potential and rigour of practice-based researchers in the pursuit of new knowledge.

GBP 230.00
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Routledge Handbook of Urban Public Space Use Design and Management

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics provides a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of neurocognitive and neurobiological scientific research about learning second or additional languages. It is a one-of-a-kind centralized resource that brings together research that is typically found in disperse publication venues. Eminent global scholars from various disciplines synthesize and cross-fertilize current and past neural research about second language through systematic in-depth and timely chapters that discuss cores issues for understanding the neurocognition of second language learning representation and processing. Handbook sections provide overviews of extant and emerging neuroscience methods syntheses of neurocognitive research on second language syntax morphosyntax lexicon phonology and pragmatics and up-to-date descriptions of theoretical approaches of the neural basis of second language learning. The volume provides additional sections that synthesize research on a variety of topics including factors that affect the neurocognition of second language the neural mechanisms underlying second language learning individual differences in the neurocognition of second language as well as research on understudied languages and populations such as sign language child second language learners and individuals with aphasia. This handbook will be an indispensable resource to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines including those interested in second language acquisition applied linguistics cognitive science psychology neuroscience and research methodology. It should facilitate transformative connections between ideas and disciplines and lead to informative and productive paths for future research.

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research

Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live work and play while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit. This edited collection presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing the planet its environments and its populations through their research analysis and speculative practice. The book has assembled current writings on recent research structured around five major themes: governance power and partnership; infrastructure systems and performance; environment resilience and climate change; people place and design; and culture heritage and identity. As a collection the chapters demonstrate the diversity of themes and topics that are expanding the scholarly body of knowledge for the discipline and its relevance to the practice of landscape architecture. The contributors to this book are academic researchers and practitioners from the discipline of landscape architecture. The chapters draw on their research teaching and experience as well as analysis of project examples. Fifty-two contributors from the United Stsates United Kingdom Sweden Denmark the Netherlands Nigeria Malaysia Spain Colombia Australia New Zealand and Canada discuss a diverse range of contemporary themes in urban landscape architecture. Collectively the contributors demonstrate the breadth of experience shared concerns and distinct issues that challenge urban landscape architecture and cities in the 21st century. | Routledge Handbook of Urban Landscape Research

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The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion

The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion

The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion is an outstanding reference source to the key topics problems and debates in this exciting and emerging field. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook pulls together scholarship in the following areas: evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR) cultural evolution the complementarity of evolutionary psychology cognitive science and cultural evolution Within these sections central issues debates and problems are examined including: Cliodynamics cultural group selection costly signaling dual inheritance theory literacy transmitting narratives prosociality supernatural punishment cognition and ritual meme theory fusion theory sexual selection agency detection evoked culture social brain hypothesis theory of mind developmental psychology emergence theory social learning cultural cybernetics cultural epidemiology evolutionary and cultural psychology memetics by-product and adaptationist theories of religion systems and information theory and computer modeling. This Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and anthropology. It will also be very useful to those in related fields such as psychology sociology of religion cognitive biology and evolutionary biology.

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Handbook of Research on Special Education Teacher Preparation

Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts

The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation