This study enables the lecturer to explore issues, dilemmas and situations which confront the stakeholders in further and higher education. It explores how assessment and evaluation of student learning and tutors teaching are affected by institutional and governmental arrangements.

This volume critically and pragmatically reflects upon the use of life stories in social and educational research. Using four life stories as examples, the authors apply four different, practical approaches to demonstrate effective research and analysis.

Researching Live Music offers an important contribution to the emergent field of live music studies, a field which has, over the past ten years, seen a steady growth in publications that examine the history of live music venues and promoters, the economics of the live music industry, and the operations of the sector.