Placing complex interventions within a coherent system of research enquiry, this text is designed to help researchers understand the research processes involved at each stage of developing, testing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions, and assist them to integrate methodological activities to produce secure, evidence-based health care interventions.

This book challenges the orthodox discourse on leadership - often expressed in heroic and individualistic terms - and presents leadership as a practice within which communication, research, imagination and ethical judgements are continuously improvised. It suggests how leaders might become more politically, emotionally and socially savvy.

Revised edition of: ICT in the primary school. Harlow: Pearson, 2012.

Covers the analyses of the use, abuse and ambiguity of many essential concepts used in political discourse and political studies. These include basic concepts such as liberty, democracy, rights, representation, authority and political power. This text is intended for foundation courses at first or second year level.