Wadsworth's Social Research and Evaluation 3-Volume Set

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-50140-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 1000 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 297 mm

This 3-volume set includes the new editions of Yoland Wadsworth’s comprehensive, trailblazing trilogy designed to support effective research, inquiry and evaluation. It includes revised and updated editions of Do-It-Yourself Social Research, Human Inquiry for Living Systems and Everyday Evaluation on the Run.

Offering a grounded approach, rooted in the properties and processes of all living systems, the guidance supports and encourages researchers to individually-and-together, inquire their way to a more life-giving future. Do-It-Yourself Social Research emphasizes the importance of a spirit of inquiry, demystifies the research process, and covers the essentials of where to start, how to manage a research project, methods, techniques and resources, digital tools, interpretation, analysis and reporting. In Human Inquiry for Living Systems a radically new proposition is offered: that the act of our 'inquiring', of researching and evaluating together, is the way by which every living organism and all collective human life goes about continuously achieving the conditions for life. Everyday Evaluation on the Run provides a practical overview of the main approaches to evaluation, strategies for involving stakeholders, and the evaluation industry's toolbox of models and techniques.

This 3-volume collection of path-breaker Yoland Wadsworth’s crucial work will assist new generations in conducting research effectively at every stage.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wadsworth, Yoland

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Über Autor(innen)

Yoland Wadsworth is a pathbreaker in research methodology and its use in social research in health, community and human services for over forty years. She has been an applied sociologist and consultant to community-based non-government organisations, self-help groups, and state, federal and local governments; an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University; Principal Fellow in the McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne; and deputy to the Director of the Policy & Research Branch in Premier & Cabinet, Victorian government.