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Understanding Research

Coping with the Quantitative - Qualitative Divide

By Marianne Franklin

To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge – 308 pages

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Description

Successfully completing a research project is a major milestone in most university degrees, and the cornerstone of an academic career. This textbook is an accessible, real-time guide to conducting academic research in international and cross-cultural settings.

It provides advanced undergraduates and graduate students, practical and theoretical guidance on how to begin, execute, and then communicate the outcome of research projects undertaken at the intersection of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

This text:

  • Explores the decision making process at all points of a research project and the implications of these decisions in the longer term

  • Outlines the practical and philosophical conundrums around specific techniques for gathering and analysing data

  • Examines moments of disconnect, overlap, and potentially mutual benefit for researchers working at different points along the quantitative-qualitative divide that underscores popular and scholarly debates about the relevance of academic research

  • Explains how to cope with a divide that is both real and imagined; in all its experiential, institutional, and conceptual variations.

Focussed explicitly on the needs and experiences of students and including a wealth of practical tips, this work is an essential resource for all students embarking on a research project.

Contents

1. Introduction Part 1: Divides & Designs 2. Putting Research into Perspective 3. Research in Practice: First Steps in Project Design 4. The Politics of Research: Living with Your Choices 5. Internet Research Skills & Online Research Part 2: Coping & Communicating 6. Doing Research - Gathering Data 7. Doing Research - Analysing Findings 8. Writing it All Up and Going Public 9. In Conclusion

Author Bio

M. I. Franklin is Reader and Convener of the Global Media & Transnational Communications programme at Goldsmiths (UK). Previous books include Resounding International Relations: On Music, Culture, and Politics and Postcolonial Politics, the Internet, and Everyday Life: Pacific Traversals Online.

Name: Understanding Research: Coping with the Quantitative - Qualitative Divide (Paperback) – Routledge 
Description: By Marianne Franklin. Successfully completing a research project is a major milestone in most university degrees, and the cornerstone of an academic career. This textbook is an accessible, real-time guide to conducting academic research in international and cross-cultural...
Categories: Political Research Methods, Politics & International Relations, Research Design, Quantitative Methods, Qualitative Methods