The Researcher's Toolkit
The Researcher's Toolkit

Author: David Wilkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1134608128

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The Researcher's Toolkit is a practical rather than an academic text for all those undertaking, perhaps for the first time, small-scale research. Written by an experienced team of practising researchers, it covers the entire research process - from designing and submitting a research proposal through to its completion. This book is suitable for all researchers, but is particularly designed for those practitioner-based researchers from the fields of education, social work, nursing, criminal justice and community work. This fresh new idea for those conducting small-scale research comes from a team of practising researchers who possess a broad range of experiences and knowledge of research design, execution and completion. They write in a user-friendly style that those researchers new to the subject will find easy to follow and understand. It will act both as a roadmap to planning, execution and completing research and also as a dip-in reference guide. Using features such as activity boxes to highlight key concepts and short summary boxes to indicate fundamental elements of the research area under discussion, this accessible book will be of great value to all who read it.

The Knowledge Translation Toolkit
The Knowledge Translation Toolkit

Author: Gavin Bennett

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2011-06-06

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 8132105850

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The Knowledge Translation Toolkit provides a thorough overview of what knowledge translation (KT) is and how to use it most effectively to bridge the "know-do" gap between research, policy, practice, and people. It presents the theories, tools, and strategies required to encourage and enable evidence-informed decision-making. This toolkit builds upon extensive research into the principles and skills of KT: its theory and literature, its evolution, strategies, and challenges. The book covers an array of crucial KT enablers--from context mapping to evaluative thinking--supported by practical examples, implementation guides, and references. Drawing from the experience of specialists in relevant disciplines around the world, The Knowledge Translation Toolkit aims to enhance the capacity and motivation of researchers to use KT and to use it well. The Tools in this book will help researchers ensure that their good science reaches more people, is more clearly understood, and is more likely to lead to positive action. In sum, their work becomes more useful, and therefore, more valuable.

The Research Funding Toolkit
The Research Funding Toolkit

Author: Jacqueline Aldridge

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012-05-18

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1446290182

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Writing high quality grant applications is easier when you know how research funding agencies work and how your proposal is treated in the decision-making process. The Research Funding Toolkit provides this knowledge and teaches you the necessary skills to write high quality grant applications. A complex set of factors determine whether research projects win grants. This handbook helps you understand these factors and then face and overcome your personal barriers to research grant success. The guidance also extends to real-world challenges of grant-writing, such as obtaining the right feedback, dealing effectively with your employer and partner institutions, and making multiple applications efficiently. There are many sources that will tell you what a fundable research grant application looks like. Very few help you learn the skills you need to write one. The Toolkit fills this gap with detailed advice on creating and testing applications that are readable, understandable and convincing.

Urban Public Health
Urban Public Health

Author: Gina S. Lovasi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0190885319

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Today, we know cities as shared spaces with the potential to both threaten and promote human health: while urban areas are known to amplify the transmission of epidemics like Ebola, urban residency is also associated with longer, healthier lives. Modern cities encompass a wide ecology of infrastructures, institutions and services that impact health, from access to improved sanitation and early childhood education to the design of buildings and transportation systems. So how has this centuries-long transformation in human settlement affected the mindset surrounding public health research and practice? Urban Public Health is an interdisciplinary collaboration from experts across the globe that approaches the issue of urban health research from a uniquely public health orientation. The carefully crafted and thoughtful chapters in this volume grapple with the complexity of the urban setting as a physical and social space while also providing an abundance of global and local examples of current urban health practices. Urban Public Health is divided into four pragmatic sections which cover core conceptual models of public health and their inequities, methods of urban health research assessment, methods of urban health research analysis and explanation, and ultimately, opportunities for urban health research to inform action through partnership and collaboration, including those which elevate community voices and capacities. An accessible guide for both students and researchers alike, Urban Public Health shines a light on how to understand, measure and change the urban setting so that cities grow, people thrive, and no one is left behind.

Qualitative Research in Digital Environments
Qualitative Research in Digital Environments

Author: Alessandro Caliandro

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-12-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1317282191

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This book offers a toolkit of methods and technologies to undertake qualitative research on digital spaces. Unlike commonly used traditional methodological strategies, which are ‘retrofitted’ to digital spaces, Qualitative Research in Digital Environments offers researchers a set of ‘digitally native’ tools that are designed for online social environments. Thanks to a broad range of cases including Louis Vuitton, YouTube and the concept of ‘hipsterism’, this text illustrates the practical applications of techniques and tools over the most popular social media environments. This book will be a valuable guide to qualitative research for marketing students, researchers and practitioners, as well as a central reference point for tutors in the growing field of Digital Sociology.

A Toolkit for Action Research
A Toolkit for Action Research

Author: Sandra M. Alber

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781442206939

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This book facilitates the completion of action research studies by providing a series of tasks that guide action researchers from the beginning of a project and selecting a topic for study, to completion of the project and editing final reports. All too often, students and practicing professionals in professional development schools are overwhelmed by the thought of doing an action research project and resort to using quasi-experimental designs. A Toolkit for Action Research puts an end to both, with the result being a life-long learning and reflection tool for teachers. This workbook can be used alone, or in conjunction with traditional action research texts, such as Daniel Tomal's Action Research for Educators.

The Researcher's Toolkit
The Researcher's Toolkit

Author: David Wilkinson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-02

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1000869717

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Designed for those undertaking research for the first time, this fully updated edition of The Researcher's Toolkit is a practical and accessible guide for all those partaking in small-scale research. Jargon-free and assuming no prior knowledge, it covers the entire research process, from defining a research topic or question through to its completion. This second edition has been fully revised by a collaborating team with a wealth of knowledge and practical experience in research project work. Including activity boxes to highlight key concepts and short summary boxes to indicate fundamental elements of various research areas, the chapters cover: The importance of research and framing your research question and research ethics Practical elements associated with planning and executing your research activity The application of survey-based research methods and the value provided by social media as data collection devices Deploying both quantitative and qualitative tools and techniques to analyse research data Writing up your research work and preparing it for wider access and consumption Examining the effect of your research work through assessing or measuring its impact The Researcher’s Toolkit is a must-read guide for students and budding researchers as well as educators seeking to explain academic research and writing to their pupils. It will benefit anyone looking to complete a research project whether inside academia or beyond.

DETA Research Toolkit
DETA Research Toolkit

Author: Tanya Joosten

Publisher: DETA Corporation

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13:

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The DETA Research Toolkit (Kit), a new iteration, is a guide to support educators in designing research and evaluations of instructional, pedagogical, and technological practices designed, developed, and produced by Dr. Tanya Joosten and the team at the National Research Center for Distance Education and Technological Advancements (DETA). Kit includes Section a General Research Model, including desired outcomes, including access, learning effectiveness, instrumentation effectiveness, and satisfaction. Within the general model discussion, a framework of inquiry is presented with questions to research inform efforts. Kit contains guides to research (e.g., qualitative, quantitative) as well as the philosophical assumptions that guides those methodologies and how to report findings. Newer methodologies and reporting approaches popular in technology development are also included (e.g., UX research and evaluation, data visualization). Kit contains research tools, resources, and research models to get to the nitty gritty of research and evaluation work. These tools and resources include research planning and the ever so popular survey instrumentation packet and data codebook. New to this version is also a section on interview schedules. Other resources that will help you navigate privacy and ethics include human subjects, inform consent, and data sharing info. The research models included provide research questions or problems of practices, methodological design, research tools and instruments, and more. Topics include instruction design, student support, coaching, preparing students for digital learning, adaptive learning, and open education resources. Importantly, the toolkit includes a research and evaluation specific to understanding learning in response to the pandemic of 2020. For more information visit detaresearch.org.

The Researcher's Toolkit
The Researcher's Toolkit

Author: David Wilkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1134608136

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The Researcher's Toolkit is a practical rather than an academic text for all those undertaking, perhaps for the first time, small-scale research. Written by an experienced team of practising researchers, it covers the entire research process - from designing and submitting a research proposal through to its completion. This book is suitable for all researchers, but is particularly designed for those practitioner-based researchers from the fields of education, social work, nursing, criminal justice and community work. This fresh new idea for those conducting small-scale research comes from a team of practising researchers who possess a broad range of experiences and knowledge of research design, execution and completion. They write in a user-friendly style that those researchers new to the subject will find easy to follow and understand. It will act both as a roadmap to planning, execution and completing research and also as a dip-in reference guide. Using features such as activity boxes to highlight key concepts and short summary boxes to indicate fundamental elements of the research area under discussion, this accessible book will be of great value to all who read it.