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Insights Into Creative and Participatory Research

Key Issues and Innovative Developments

by Agata Wezyk, Audrey Tuaillon-Demésy, Catherine Talbot, Amina Razak, Amy Pomerand Petzoldt, Anna Tarrant, James Duggan, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, Elise Imray Papineau, Harvey Humphrey, Jim Donaghey, Kate Pahl, Rebekka Mirjam Holzle, Sabina Savadova, Steve Pool ...

As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive meaningful impact.Bridging theory and practice, it offers a critical overview of methodological innovation and showcases rich, diverse case studies from both early-career and established researchers. Covering everything ... Read more

$40.49 USD

As social scientists increasingly turn to creative and participatory methods, this timely book explores their power to democratise research, amplify participant voices and drive meaningful impact.Bridging theory and practice, it offers a critical overview of methodological innovation and showcases rich, diverse case studies from both early-career and established researchers. Covering everything
... Read more
Collaborative Research in Theory and Practice

The Poetics of Letting Go

by Kate Pahl, Richard Steadman-Jones, Lalitha Vasudevan, Hugh Escott, Cristina Salazar Gallardo, Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Andrew McMillan, Jonathan May, Katie Scott Newhouse, Steve Pool, Vicky Ward ...

This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways ... Read more

$38.69 USD

This book invites the reader to think about collaborative research differently. Using the concepts of ‘letting go’ (the recognition that research is always in a state of becoming) and 'poetics’ (using an approach that might interrupt and remake the conventions of research), it envisions collaborative research as a space where relationships are forged with the use of arts-based and multimodal ways
... Read more
Living Literacies

Literacy for Social Change

by Kate Pahl, Jennifer Rowsell, Diane Collier, Steve Pool, Zanib Rasool ...

An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram, ... Read more

$25.99 USD

An approach to literacy that understands it as lived and experienced in the everyday across varied spaces and populations.This book approaches literacy as lived and experienced in the everyday. A living literacies approach draws not only on such official, schooled activities as reading, writing, speaking, and listening but also on such routine, tacit activities as scrolling through Instagram,
... Read more
Valuing Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research

Beyond Impact

by Andrew Power, Karen Smyth, Robert Rutherfoord, Liz Richardson, Peter Matthews, Catherine Durose, Dave Vanderhoven, Colin Shepherd, Helen Graham, Oliver Davis, Elizabeth Curtis, Jo Vergunst, Amanda Ravetz, Steve Pool, Kimberley Marwood, Hugh Escott, Deborah James, Martin Phillips, Mihaela Kelemen, Rachael Turner, Martin Swan, John Stanley, David Robinson, Paul Manners, Rebecca Madgin, John Lawson, Alex Hale, Paul Furness, Kathy Cremin, Richard A. Courtney, Danny Callaghan, Peter Brown, Karen Brookfield, Richard Brigham, Lianne Brigham, Tim Boon, Mike Benson, Martin Bashforth, Colin Foskett, Justine Gaubert, Gemma Burford, Katerina Alexiou, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Ann Light, Andy Dearden, Sophia De Sousa, Paula Graham, Marie Harder, Elona Hoover, Julian Brigstocke, Dave O'Brien, Steve Connelly, Laura Brown, Julie Brown, Janice Astbury, Kim Aumann, Sophie Duncan ...

Series series Connected Communities
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable, creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base. Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to ‘account ... Read more

$44.99 USD

Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable, creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base. Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to ‘account
... Read more
Co-producing Research

A Community Development Approach

by Claire Levi, Kathryn Smith, Benjamin Kyneswood, Natalie Walton, Kim Streets, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Suna Eryigit-Madzwamuse, Mandeep Samra, Elizabeth Pente, Natalie Pinnock-Hamilton, Onyeka Nubia, Milton Brown, Shabina Aslam, Elizabeth Hoult, Louise Ritchie, Prue Chiles, Steve Pool, David Bell, Elias Kourkoutas, Anne Rathbone, Lisa Buttery, Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Josh Cameron, Andrew Church, Susanne Martikke, Ruth Taylor, Luke Johnston, Patrick Harman, Yvonne Hall, Anne Bonner, Andrea Armstrong ...

Series series Connected Communities
Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With ... Read more

$55.79 USD

Offering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With
... Read more
Re-imagining Contested Communities

Connecting Rotherham through Research

by Maria O'Beirne, Abigail Hackett, Tanya Evans, Luke Eric Lassiter, William Gould, Robert Rutherfoord, Steve Pool, Paul Ward ...

Series series Connected Communities
This is a book that challenges contemporary images of ‘place’. Too often we are told about ‘deprived neighbourhoods’ but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this unique book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham.Using history, ... Read more

$62.99 USD

This is a book that challenges contemporary images of ‘place’. Too often we are told about ‘deprived neighbourhoods’ but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this unique book the process of re-imagining comes to the fore in a fresh and contemporary look at one UK town, Rotherham.Using history,
... Read more
Joe

The Coffee Book

by Jonathan Rubinstein ...

This fresh new release is a beautiful, hip guide to the world of coffee brought to you by New York City’s popular connoisseur coffee chain, Joe. Written from the point of view of owners (and siblings) Jonathan and Gabrielle Rubinstein, the reader is welcomed into the tight-knit international specialty coffee community of committed growers, buyers, roasters, entrepreneurs, baristas, and drinkers. ... Read more

$16.99 USD

This fresh new release is a beautiful, hip guide to the world of coffee brought to you by New York City’s popular connoisseur coffee chain, Joe. Written from the point of view of owners (and siblings) Jonathan and Gabrielle Rubinstein, the reader is welcomed into the tight-knit international specialty coffee community of committed growers, buyers, roasters, entrepreneurs, baristas, and drinkers.
... Read more
Audiobook

Twisted50 Volume 1

by Stephanie Wessell, Troll Dahl, Susan Bodnar, Marie Gethins, Kendall Castor-Perry, KK Rickcord, Caroline Slocock, Karen Sheard, Lucy V Hay, Stephen Deas, Diana Read, Scott Merrow, Steven Quantick, Dylan Keeling, Steve Pool, Jacqui Canham, Nick Twyford, Joh ...

Narrated by Anne Parker Naples, Ann M. Richardson, Joan Walker, Charles Constant, Jane Copland, Susie Riddell, Cassandra Wilson, Claire Cordier, Claire Wyatt, Daniela Acitelli, Dawn Murphy, Gary Furlong, Greg Wagland, James Cameron Stewart, Jenny Hoops, Kat Rose Mart ...

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11 hours 20 min

Twisted 50 volume 1 is a deliciously dark slice of contemporary horror literature. Reading it is like attending a late night secret banquet where you know each course will serve up something unexpected, forbidden and unforgettably chilling. Take your private seat now for 50 luscious courses of terror, from 50 of the strongest voices in modern horror. ... Read more

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Twisted 50 volume 1 is a deliciously dark slice of contemporary horror literature. Reading it is like attending a late night secret banquet where you know each course will serve up something unexpected, forbidden and unforgettably chilling. Take your private seat now for 50 luscious courses of terror, from 50 of the strongest voices in modern horror.
... Read more

Sad Love

Romance and the Search for Meaning

by Carrie Jenkins ...

As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can let us down badly. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society ... Read more

$18.00 USD

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As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can let us down badly. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society
... Read more

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Non-Representational Theory

Space, Politics, Affect

by Nigel Thrift ...

Series series International Library of Sociology
This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed ... Read more

$67.99 USD

This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life. Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions what is meant by perception, representation and practice, with the aim of valuing the fugitive practices that exist on the margins of the known. It revolves around three key functions. It:introduces the rather dispersed
... Read more
Lateral Thinking: Exercises and Research Topics

by Gerald Kehr Ed.D. ...

Apply your intellect to the exercises found in this unique text. The problems in science, history, political science, linguistics, mathematics, social theory, and philosophy are designed for readers who are able to look beyond the seemingly obvious for answers. Although this text is applicable to a wide-ranging readership, one suggested application would be in the sphere of higher education, where ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Apply your intellect to the exercises found in this unique text. The problems in science, history, political science, linguistics, mathematics, social theory, and philosophy are designed for readers who are able to look beyond the seemingly obvious for answers. Although this text is applicable to a wide-ranging readership, one suggested application would be in the sphere of higher education, where
... Read more
A Focus on Hope

Fifty Resilient Students Speak

by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...

Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

$32.99 USD

Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships
... Read more

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