This text provides students with step-by-step guidance on all aspects of the research process. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of research are discussed with real life examples demonstrating good and bad practice.

Pt. 1. Planning your research project : So you're going to do a Research Project -- Let's Make a Start -- Drawing up your Personal Project Roadmap -- pt. 2. Quantitative research : The Principles of Sampling -- Carrying Out Your Survey -- Questionnaires -- The Art and Science of Survey Interviewing -- Analysing Your Survey Data -- pt. 3. Qualitative research : Studying a Small Sample -- Qualitative Research Interviewing -- There is More to Qualitative Research than Interviewing -- Analysing Qualitative Data -- pt. 4. The last lap : Writing Your Report -- Postscript : Over to you ... -- pt. 5. Into more complex territory : A Qualitative Researcher's Briefing Sheet -- Testing for Statistical Significance.