This new edition is fully updated with expanded coverage of ethical issues, statistical analysis, and innovative research methods such as auto-ethnography. Comprehensive and accessible, students are provided with a complete overview of both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Key topics include:

• choosing an appropriate research design
• undertaking a literature review
• key research techniques, including questionnaires, interviews, content analysis and ethnographic studies
• data analysis, including an introduction to SPSS, as well as guides to descriptive and inferential statistics
• writing a research report
• ethical issues in sports research.

The text includes a full range of pedagogical features, such as chapter summaries, highlighted definitions of key terms, practical projects, revision questions, boxed case-studies and guides to further reading. The new companion website provides PowerPoint slides for lecturers, a test bank for students, web links and additional teaching and learning resources.