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.
