This text is an essential guide to current research approaches in human geography, covering all aspects of undertaking a geography research project, from the selection of an appropriate topic through to the organisation and writing of the final report.
Covering a wide range of contemporary research methods, the authors provide practical advice on how to actually undertake a project.
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List of boxes
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Philosophies underlying human geography research
Section A Preparing for the research project
3 Choosing a topic
4 Finding previous work on the topic
5 Secondary data
Section B Collecting primary data
6 Questionnaire design and sampling
7 Tell me about ¿: using interviews as a research methodology
8 Focus groups
9 ¿Participatory¿ approaches and diagramming techniques
10 Participant observation
Section C Analysis of data
11 Analysing numerical spatial data
12 Analysing categorical data
13 Analysing qualitative materials
14 Textual analysis: reading culture and context
15 Visual methodologies: what you see is not always what you get
16 Geographical information systems and spatial analysis
Section D Producing the report
17 Designing the report
18 Writing the report
19 Illustrating the report
20 Conclusion
References
Index