Covers from setting up a study through to presenting findings, with sections on all the basic tasks central to any research project, including: Planning research; Researcher and participant safety; Monitoring research in progress; and Research ethics. A website which includes a users' message board and other materials accompanies this book.

Presents the skills, techniques and practices for the job of the researcher. This guide to production research helps understand the possibilities to be considered when undertaking research and the questions that need to be asked at each stage of the production process. It includes tips to help the reader gain a better understanding of this field.

Sustainability is a global issue that urgently needs addressing, and for which the most serious consequences are for children and future generations. This insightful book tackles one of the biggest contemporary issues of our times - the environment - and how early childhood education can contribute to sustainable living.

Written with the novice educational researcher in mind, this book is designed to help students produce good quality, valid and valuable research. The text is written in an engaging style and adopts a mixed-methods approach. It also features guidance on analytical procedures that require more advanced tools.

Modern techniques of sports performance analysis enable the sport scientist, coach and athlete to objectively assess, and therefore improve upon, sporting performance. This book explains how to undertake a research project in performance analysis.

"this book is an essential course text for any research methods course taken as part of a degree programme in sports coaching or coach education"--