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How can researchers navigate ethical dilemmas in an era of rapid technological change and growing calls for decolonisation?

This fully revised second edition addresses the evolving landscape of research ethics, equipping social science researchers with the tools to conduct rigorous, responsible inquiry in today's complex world. Building on Indigenous and Euro-Western paradigms, this book offers invaluable practical guidance.

Key features include:

* Two brand-new chapters on decolonising research ethics and the ethical implications of emerging technologies, including generative artificial intelligence;

* Real-world case studies and reflective questions that bridge theory and practice;

* Over 200 new references; and

* Comprehensive coverage from research design through to dissemination and aftercare.

Drawing on the author's work with the European Commission and extensive teaching and consultancy experience, this essential resource transforms abstract ethical principles into actionable guidance for contemporary research challenges.

Diversity characterizes societies of the present. Some fight using the slogans “We’ll come united”, “Leave no one behind,” “Black lives matter”, and “Trans rights”. Others, however, experience diversity as a loss of control, which they counter with defense mechanisms, including an “us” versus “them” mindset. Accordingly, demands for inclusion and integration are often interwoven with diffuse fears of “new identities” (Hall), for example of refugees and migrants, but also of queer persons and non-heteronormative ways of life. In turn, demarcation struggles and identitarian divisions within social groups can arise from emphasizing difference, and can lead to “positional fundamentalism” (Villa Braslavsky) or so-called social "trigger points" (Mau/Lux/Westheuser). The publication takes these points of departure to explore processes of subjectivation, that is, processes of becoming a subject shaped through discourses, power relations, and social practices.The volume includes contributions that offer feminist, post/decolonial, and intersectional perspectives on subjectivation research, alongside critiques of ableism and racism, in order to analyse existing relations of diversity and difference, including the privileges and disadvantages, discriminations, inequalities and racisms embedded in them.

Now in its 163rd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions.?

Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education?brings together the voluminous knowledge on scholarly research and learning in our postdigital condition. Since its first public appearance in 2000, the concept of the postdigital has entered mainstream in research fields from philosophy through arts to education. During the past years, we are witnessing a rapid growth in number of academic books and articles dealing (explicitly and implicitly) with education and research in and for the postdigital age. There is a growing number of research centers and funded projects situated in the postdigital perspective, and the concept of the postdigital is now mainstreamed in popular discourse.?Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education?covers that need as the?first reference work with an explicit focus to postdigital themes and research approaches.

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The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology presents a comprehensive mapping of phenomenological thought on a global scale within philosophy and related disciplines. It appeals to researchers in philosophy and related theoretical/applied disciplines, as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

The Encyclopedia surveys the current state and significance of international phenomenological research and the 200+ entries address five categories: figures; concepts (life-world, noema, Dasein, etc.) and methods; themes and tendencies; contributions and debates; and finally, cross-fertilizations. Research in the field has developed on an international scale resulting in a need for such a state-of-art encyclopedia. This reference work is the source in phenomenology for readers looking to verify terms, figures, and themes as well as to build upon for further publications.

The richest insights in qualitative projects often emerge not from established or formulaic analytic approaches but from everyday, improvised ways of working with data. Everyday Qualitative Analysis reveals these often-unseen creative practices, showing how researchers think, feel and make meaning in the analytic process.

This practical book introduces a distinctive approach that opens up pathways through data, the shapes data can take and the affective textures of analysis. It rejects rigid, pre-determined approaches and instead supports readers in developing styles of analysis that feel purposeful, personal and genuinely responsive to their data.

The book features:

* Case studies from a range of fields, including gerontology, science and technology studies, cultural studies, LGBTQ+ research, fashion and material culture;

* Practical prompts, suggestions and questions that help with data analysis; and

* Strategies for navigating complex or unruly datasets.

Offering real-world examples and helpful prompts, this vital book frees researchers from rule-bound expectations, encouraging them to experiment, trust their instincts and discover new routes through their data.

Replace intuition with evidence-based methods for executive hiring decisions

Over-reliance on resumes, references, and interviews leaves organizations unable to assess critical competencies like writing, presentation, and leadership skills, contributing to high rates of leadership failure. Beyond Interviews: Moving from Intuition to Evidence-Based Executive Assessment provides specific steps to designing systematic, skills-based assessment methods. Built on techniques refined over twenty years across over 300 executive placements, each chapter challenges readers to reconsider current practices.

The authors' February 2024 study found that over 96% of executives placed through their processes either remain in position, stayed at least five years, or received a promotion. The book applies a structured, research-grounded approach across chapters, moving practitioners from traditional hiring methods toward objective assessment with recommendations including a motivation-based model for finalist interviews.

Readers will also find:

• A systematic framework for evaluating practical, actionable leadership skills rather than the theoretical knowledge typically revealed through interviews alone
• Methods for generating objective assessment data on writing, presentation, and leadership competencies that complement professional intuition
• Structured guidance for designing selection processes tailored to senior management roles in mission-driven organizations and higher education
• Research-based techniques for reducing bias and improving consistency across every stage of the executive recruitment and evaluation process
• Practical tools for boards and hiring committees to assess candidates through skills-based demonstrations beyond traditional resume and reference review

Written for managers, CEOs, directors of mission-driven organizations, and academic administrators, this book also serves HR professionals, elected officials in local government, and non-profit board members. Beyond Interviews equips decision-makers with a proven system that directly reduces the risk of executive hiring failure.

Focusing on transdisciplinary research as a research method for the future, this volume provides the latest thinking and accessible resources for problem-solving, collaborative research that cuts across disciplinary boundaries and engages different communities. Transdisciplinary research is a problem-solving research approach where different disciplines are combined and transcended, primarily through teamwork, to solve complex problems in the real world innovatively. This volume teases apart what transdisciplinarity looks like in practice at the individual, interpersonal, and project levels. The chapters cover conceptual ground with core ideas, philosophies, terms, and principles that distinguish trandisciplinarity from other research approaches, provide guidance in the planning and implementation of these approaches, and help readers think through the different sections of a research proposal for a transdisciplinary project. A section dedicated to applications focuses on planning for and implementing research dissemination, translation, and application activities, with emphasis on community engagement as being central to the process. Developed for scholars in and outside of academia and with graduate students in mind, it would also be of value to undergraduate students in specialized, practice-based programs, for developing team-based projects and honors theses based on applied research projects.

Living and Loving as Research Methodologies follows Audre Lorde's call to dismantle "the master's tools" in favour of other strategies towards meaningful change, this volume presents examples of post-qualitative research that start from different epistemological openings than mainstream western conceptions of knowledge. Each chapter outlines research praxis through its design and engagement and offers creative perspectives on ways to approach data and representation.

This book builds on feminist definitions of living as research method, like Sara Ahmed's "listening with a feminist ear" and "tending to spillage" as well as adrienne maree brown's "noticing" of emergence that legitimizes everyday acts and overlooked instances. Love is similarly defined as noting and ritualizing care, with the recognition that "what we pay attention to grows". These chapters foreground the tradition of love as resistance articulated and furthered by Black feminists, expanding into new materialist "becoming-with" definitions of entangled living. The methods presented embody love at every stage and work towards enacting a kinder, just world.

This book is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in research methodology, particularly in conversation with feminist and decolonial theory and posthumanist scholarship. Such courses are increasingly being offered across Education, Sociology, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Decolonial Studies, and related fields.

The digital revolution has introduced a paradigm shift towards a data-driven?publication world in the rapidly evolving academic research landscape. At the?heart of this transformation is the shift from traditional, qualitative assessments?of academic work to quantitative metrics; these changes are reshaping how?research is conducted, how it is funded and published, and, ultimately, how it?contributes to the broader corpus of human knowledge. From the granular level?of individual researcher’s bibliometrics to the macro perspective of global?research trends, this book delves into the implications of a data-driven approach?for all stakeholders in the academic ecosystem.

Singh, Ahmad, and Singh address critical questions around the equity, reliability,?and future direction of publication metrics through expert insights, case studies,?and analysis of emerging trends. By scrutinizing the balance between the?invaluable insights provided by data-driven metrics and the potential pitfalls of?their over-reliance, this book offers a forward-looking perspective on navigating?the digital age of scholarly publication. This volume is designed for researchers,?librarians, policymakers, and anyone interested in the future of academic?publishing, providing them with the tools to adapt and thrive in the data-driven?publication world.

The Advances in Digital Technology and Data-Driven Business Practices series aims to shed light on the rapid developments, significance, benefits, and practical applications of evolving digital technologies and data-driven decision-making practices in businesses.

This book offers applied linguists a state-of-the-art guide to validating constructs using structural equation modeling (SEM). Building on cutting-edge psychometric methods, it moves beyond traditional, one-size-fits-all validation practices to provide a theory-driven framework for deciding how constructs should be conceptualized, modeled, and evaluated.

The volume is distinctive in its systematic integration of common factor models and composite models, offering clear guidance on when and how to use techniques such as EFA, CFA, ESEM, set-ESEM, and CCA. It reflects the latest developments in SEM, including the recent implementation of composites within standard maximum likelihood estimation. Featuring simulated datasets and annotated outputs illustrating each method in action, Alamer presents these innovations in an accessible and applied manner. The book emphasizes transparent reasoning, minimal reliance on complex mathematics, and step-by-step tutorials using free software such as Jamovi and lavaangui. Each chapter combines theoretical justification with hands-on application and concludes with guidance on leveraging generative AI tools to enhance methodological rigor.

Designed for researchers, graduate students, and advanced practitioners in applied linguistics, psychology, education, and related social sciences, this valuable resource serves as both a reference and a course text in quantitative research methods, questionnaire design, and psychometric validation.

Written by an expert researcher and author, this text focuses on innovation in qualitative research, exploring new areas for qualitative research.

Featuring an extended discussion of how to develop a coherent and robust qualitative research program, this book contains chapters on: ?qualitative research synthesis approaches ? secondary qualitative data analysis ? the diverse landscape of qualitative internet research ? advances in grounded theory ? qualitatively driven mixed methods ? different methods of qualitative content analysis.

This is an essential text for researchers in the health and social sciences, especially those with an interest in qualitative research.

This collection offers a nuanced portrait of the policies, practices, and pedagogies which inform and are informed by the sociopolitics of scholarly publication at the graduate level.

The volume explores how these dynamics of knowledge production and dissemination impact the academic careers of novice scholarly writers at the MA and PhD level. Aiming to demystify scholarly writing at this level, the book features perspectives from diverse stakeholders, from educators to researchers to administrators to junior scholars themselves. Key issues under discussion include discursive and non-discursive challenges; development of the required literacies for successful publication; the effects of institutional, local, national, and international policies; graduate scholars' mental health and wellbeing; and the affordances and limitations of artificial intelligence. Taken together, the work provides new insights into the complexities involved in graduate scholars' journeys through the scholarly publication process.

This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and other key stakeholders in applied linguistics, English for Research Publication Purposes, TESOL, language and education, and writing studies.

A Configurational Approach to Complex Systems Analysis: Introducing The Kauzon Quadrant Model develops a new configurational theory of complex systems and introduces the Kauzon Quadrant Model (KQM) as an original methodological framework for analyzing systems beyond rankings, composite indicators, and scalar measurement. This book introduces a new way of understanding complex systems by revealing what rankings and composite indicators cannot show: internal structure, hidden imbalances, regime characteristics, recurring structural patterns, and possible pathways of transformation.

This book argues that complex systems should not be understood only through aggregated scores but as structural configurations within a multidimensional relational space. KQM positions systems in a referentially anchored coordinate space, enabling the identification of structural regimes, asymmetries, disproportionalities, recurring patterns, and threshold-based transformation. The framework is presented as a general analytical architecture applicable across diverse systems, including health, education, research and development, governance, security, defense, innovation, and broader institutional systems. Empirical applications demonstrate that systems with similar rankings may belong to different structural regimes, while systems with different performance levels may share similar configurational characteristics. The main finding is that meaningful system analysis requires not only the comparison of performance but also the diagnosis of structural position and the patterns that emerge from it.

This book is intended for scholars, policymakers, analysts, advanced students, and international institutions working with indicators, scoreboards, rankings, dashboards, and benchmarking tools, including the European Commission, Organisation
for Economic Co?operation and Development (OECD), WHO, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UNESCO, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and Eurostat. It can also be used in university courses on systems analysis, public policy, governance, innovation studies, composite indicators, and complexity theory.

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 2 unveils the rich diversity and enduring legacy of the Greek manuscript tradition preserved in one of North America's largest collections. Building on the acclaimed first volume, this second and concluding volume offers comprehensive illustrated descriptions of eighty-four manuscripts and fragments housed in the University of Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Center. The discovery of twenty-three previously unknown manuscripts and fragments significantly expands our understanding of Byzantine and post-Byzantine book culture, illuminating the remarkable continuity of Greek scholarly, liturgical, and artistic traditions from the ninth through the nineteenth centuries.

Each entry integrates codicological features, handwriting analysis, textual content, decoration, binding, provenance, and references to earlier scholarship as well as high-quality color plates to illustrate representative pages, script types, and illuminations. Among the exceptional highlights are a fragment of The Great Calculation According to the Indians by Maximos Planoudes, preserving portions of this rare mathematical treatise otherwise lost; an illuminated 1371 copy of The Heavenly Ladder by John Klimax, created by the renowned scribe Joasaph II of the Hodegon Monastery in Constantinople; and a newly identified manuscript containing rare patristic homilies linked to the sixteenth-century Choniates scriptorium in Venice.

This volume is part of?Decentring the History of Reading, a two-volume project that rethinks the history of reading from a Central European perspective. Focusing on sources and contexts often overlooked in Western European models, the case studies show how reading practices developed in a multilingual, politically contested, and institutionally regulated environment. Covering the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, the contributions in the first volume explore readers' engagement with print amid Enlightenment reforms, confessional tensions, emerging national movements, and the rise of the working class.

A case-study approach highlights the diversity of reading practices across social groups, linguistic communities, and institutional settings. Particular attention is given to the interplay between cultural policies and movements-education, censorship, nation-building-and everyday reading. Under conditions of limited access and shifting hierarchies, reading emerges as a practice of negotiation, appropriation, social engagement and participation. The volume offers fresh perspectives on the formation of modern reading cultures and will interest scholars of book history, literary and cultural studies, and the social life of texts.

This dictionary offers a guide to microtonal music and musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes entries on composers and artists such as Julian Carrillo, Alois Haba, Charles Ives, Mordecai Sandberg and Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Giuseppe Tartini, Christiaan Huygens, the physicist Adriaan Fokker, Franz Richter Herf, Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, Ben Johnson, spectral music composers such as Tristan Murail and Gerard Grisey, Alain Bancquart, Georg Friedrich Haas, and genres such as ambient music, drone music, jazz, and metal and others have continued this quest for a new space of microtonal, inharmonic and non-tempered music. This dictionary provides a comprehensive overview of microtonality since the turn of the 20th century, listing more than 500 composers and gives nearly 600 bibliographical references.

In this new edition, Reading Skills for Success continues to help students develop the reading skills and strategies they need to transition to reading material in mainstream academic settings. Designed for precollege readers and non-native speakers of English alike, the fully revised book focuses on the text-based, linguistic preparedness necessary to quickly spot key information and organizational structure in texts and avoid miscomprehension.

Written by academic experts who are practicing teachers in ESL intensive English, the book is grounded in sound pedagogical methods. Teachers will work through specific reading strategies with students; use the general activities and sample academic chapters in the book to practice the strategies being taught; and then have the students turn to outside readings, like their academic textbooks, to practice the strategies they are learning. Accessible for teachers and students, Reading Skills for Success provides a guide for developing text-based processing skills to improve reading confidence.

In Reading Skills for Success, 2nd Edition, students will:

• Learn to use word-level clues to increase reading comprehension.
• Recognize different types of expository text structures.
• Develop study skills for intensive analytical reading of academic prose.
• Practice reading strategies for in-depth, long-term understanding of complex academic texts.
• Apply skills to excerpts from actual textbooks used in first-year college courses representing a wide variety of fields in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

CEFR level: A1-B1

This book offers a fresh and engaging perspective on how to build theory, drawing on an international range of expert perspectives. It responds to the growing interest in how new knowledge is created within social sciences and introduces a Phenomenon-Theory-Context framework to enable researchers address these three key dimensions of theory building. The authors offer an eclectic toolbox to build theory and discuss the relevance of theory building in today's world. This book will appeal to PhD students, early-career researchers, and more senior academics wanting an innovative approach to tradition.