Need to brush up on the latest research methods?
Not to worry! At the VCL, we have plenty of books on the variety of research methodologies you’ll need to be familiar with. Check out some of these titles:
- Doing qualitative research: a practical handbook, by David Silverman (2005)
- Research and evaluation in education and psychology: integrating diversity with quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, by Donna Mertens (2005)
- Designing and conducting mixed methods research, by John Creswell (2007)
- Foundations of qualitative research: interpretive and critical approaches, by Jerry Willis (2007)
- Qualitative research methods for the social sciences, by Bruce Berg (2007)
- Conceptualizing and proposing qualitative research, by Thomas Schram (2006)
- Research in organizations: foundations and methods of inquiry, by Richard Swanson (2005)
- Blending qualitative & quantitative research methods in theses and dissertations , by R. Murray Thomas (2003)
- Doing quantitative research in the social sciences: an integrated approach to research design, measurement and statistics, by Thomas Black (1999)
Books such as these can be found by searching the ALADIN catalog.
