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New: International Handbook of Survey Methodology

Taking into account both traditional and emerging modes, this comprehensive new Handbook covers all major methodological and statistical issues in designing and analyzing surveys.

With contributions from the world's leading survey methodologists and statisticians, this invaluable new resource provides guidance on collecting survey data and creating meaningful results.

Featuring examples from a variety of countries, the book reviews such things as how to deal with sample designs, write survey questions, and collect data on the Internet...

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New: An Introduction to Applied Multivariate Analysis

This comprehensive new text introduces readers to the most commonly used multivariate techniques at an introductory, non-technical level.

By focusing on the fundamentals, readers are better prepared for more advanced applied pursuits, particularly on topics that are most critical to the behavioral, social, and educational sciences.

Analogies between the already familiar univariate statistics and multivariate statistics are emphasized throughout...

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New Routledge Journal for 2007: Qualitative Research in Psychology

Qualitative Research in Psychology is dedicated to exploring and expanding the territory of qualitative psychological research, strengthening its identity within the international research community and defining its place within the undergraduate and graduate curriculum.

The journal is broad in scope, presenting the full range of qualitative approaches to psychological research.

Related Conference: Qualitative Methods in Psychology British Psychological Society Section Conference (University of Leeds, UK, September 2-4, 2008.

The Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society is pleased to announce their first annual section conference. The conference's theme, "Qualitative Psychology: Real World Relevance?", is designed to provoke discussion of the oft cited claim of "ecological validity" attributed to qualitative research. This claim centers around the bottom-up nature of much qualitative research whereby "insider" accounts on a given topic are gathered, often within research interview settings. The conference will take place at the University of Leeds, UK, September 2-4, 2008. For more information, contact Brendan Gough at B.Gough@leeds.ac.uk.

More details about the conference and a Call for Papers can be found on this conference announcement (PDF).

find out more about Qualitative Research in Psychology

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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) joins our group!

We're pleased to announce that LEA has joined the Taylor & Francis group of companies which includes Psychology Press and Routledge.

All of LEA's Research Methods and Statistics books are now available on this arena.

The official announcement can be found on the news section of the Informa website.

New Research Methods and Statistics Arena

Welcome to our new Research Methods and Statistics arena - we hope you find it an exciting development.

We hope you find this arena very easy to navigate around, because we know that you want to find the information you're after quickly, whether it's the 'buy now' link for a particular book, the date & venue of a forthcoming conference, or the online version of a specific academic journal article.

We've added a number of new features to address your changing demands and requirements.

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Here's a very brief overview of some of the new features:

RSS Feeds of latest titles

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You can also use our RSS feed to display an automatically-updated list of our latest Research Methods and Statistics titles on your blog or website (let us know if you do this because we'd be interested to see).

Free SPSS Data Sets

We provide free example SPSS data sets to supplement two of our core titles on SPSS: SPSS 12 Made Simple by Paul R. Kinnear and Colin D. Gray, and Quantitative Data Analysis with SPSS 12 and 13: A Guide for Social Scientists by Alan Bryman and Duncan Cramer.

Conferences

We've launched our Research Methods and Statistics listings with an interactive map (see screenshot, right), allowing you to see, at a glance, all of the events that are coming up near you.

You can zoom in for a closer look (close enough, in some cases, to get street directions!) and click on the map markers for conference details and a link to the conference's home page.

Research Methods and Statistics Blog Posts, Country-specific book listings, and more

There's a wealth of other new features, including the latest Blog Posts from around the world which have been tagged as being about Research Methods and Statistics, and we've also made sure that all the books you see are available in your country by automatically identifying which country you're in (on the rare occasions when we might get it wrong you can manually override it on the User Preferences page).

We're very excited about the changes we've made to this arena, and as we mentioned earlier, we'll be updating all of our arenas over the coming months. But we don't want to rest on our laurels, so we'll be looking for new ways to improve the arenas and new features to offer you.

If you have any suggestions or comments then please don't hesitate to let us know.