SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams. It is the perfect companion for novice researchers and provides bite-size, introductory overviews to all the major methods topics to help get you on your way. The entries give introductory overviews to major research methods, covering their history, development and critical debates surrounding them.
Some examples of topics covered include:
- Item Response Theory
- Analysing Administrative Data
- Case-Based Methods
- Case Study
- Content Analysis, Quantitative
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Agent Based Models
- Analysis of Proportions
- Analysis of Rare Events
- ANOVA and ANCOVA
- Archiving Qualitative Data
- Arts-Based Research
- Autobiography
- Autoethnography
- Bayesian Statistics
- Bibliometric Indicators
See also: SRM Videos: Practical Research and Academic Skills, SRM main page with Core information