TY - BOOK AU - McCaig, Colin, AU - Dahlberg, Lena. TI - Practical research and evaluation: a start-to-finish guide for p ractitioners SN - 9781847870032 (hbk.) U1 - 300.72 22 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - SAGE KW - Social sciences KW - Research KW - Evaluation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Practitioner research and the research process; Lena Dahlberg an d Colin McCaig --; Introduction to research and evaluation basics; Lena Dahlberg and Colin McCaig --; Research and evaluation design; Colin McCaig --; Ethics and research governance; Maria Smit h --; Writing a research proposal or brief; Colin McCaig and Lena Dahlberg --; Literature reviews; Tamsin Bowers-Brown and Anna St evens --; Action research; Scott Fernie and Karen Smith --; Dif ferent kinds of qualitative data collection methods; Maria Smith an d Tamsin Bowers-Brown --; Preparation and process of qualitative inte rviews and focus groups; Joanne Davis --; Qualitative data analys is; Karen Smith and Joanne Davies --; Different kinds of quantita tive data collection methods; Jason Leman --; Quantitative data c ollection; Jason Leman --; Quantitative data processing and anal ysis; Guillaumette Haughton and Anna Stevens --; Dissemination; Colin McCaig and Lena Dahlberg ER -