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The most hands-on, accessible, and approachable guide to the entire research process, which fully explores both quantitative and qualitative methods to give students the knowledge and confidence they need to successfully carry out their own research.
List of contents
- Designing psychological research
- 1: The basics of research design
- 2: Questionnaire design
- 3: Analysing data for psychological research
- 4: Introducing SPSS
- Experimental approaches in psychological research
- 5: Experimental design
- 6: t tests
- 7: One-way independent measures ANOVA
- 8: One-way repeated measures ANOVA
- 9: ANCOVA
- 10: Two-way factorial independent ANOVA
- 11: Two-way factorial repeated ANOVA
- 12: Two-way factorial mixed design ANOVA
- 13: Presenting experimental studies
- Correlational approaches in psychological research
- 14: Correlational design
- 15: Correlations
- 16: Multiple regression
- 17: Hierarchical regression
- 18: Logistic regression
- 19: Factor analysis
- 20: Presenting correlational studies
- Qualitative approaches in psychological research
- 21: Qualitative design
- 22: Designing interviews and focus groups
- 23: Content analysis and thematic analysis
- 24: Grounded theory
- 25: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
- 26: Samuel Fairlamb: Discourse analysis
- 27: Presenting qualitative studies
- Next steps in psychological research
- 28: How do I decide what to do with my data?
- 29: Mixed methods
- 30: Broadening your research horizons
About the author
Victoria Bourne is Professor (Teaching Focussed) at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has taught research methodology and statistical analysis at all levels from first year undergraduate students through to advanced postdoctoral researchers. At Royal Holloway she is Director of Teaching and Learning in the Department of Psychology and she coordinates and teaches on the first and second year undergraduate research modules. Professor Bourne is the author of Starting Out in Methods and Statistics for Psychology, published by OUP in 2017.
Alana James is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading. She has taught qualitative and quantitative research methods in psychology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and runs training in the use of interviews and focus groups for education professionals. At Reading Dr James is a School Director of Teaching and Learning, and in 2019 she won the Higher Education Psychology Teacher of the Year Award, run by Oxford University Press and the British Psychological Society Division of Academics, Researchers & Teachers in Psychology (BPS DART-P).
Kevin Wilson-Smith was formerly a senior academic in the school of Psychology at the University of Glasgow (thematic lead for qualitative methods), and is currently an NHS Consultant Scientist at Public Health Scotland. He has taught both quantitative and qualitative methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and also specialises in Military Psychology. He has served as Vice Chair of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Academics, Researchers & Teachers in Psychology (BPS DART-P), and is also a committee member of the BPS Research Board.
Summary
The most hands-on, accessible, and approachable guide to the entire research process, which fully explores both quantitative and qualitative methods to give students the knowledge and confidence they need to successfully carry out their own research.
