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An essential guide to giving effective and engaging talks for academics at all career stages, across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences

This book is for anyone in academia who will ever have to give a talk-which is just about everyone in academia. Presenting research is one of the most important tasks academics undertake, but few receive formal training in effective public speaking. In How to Give a Good Academic Talk, Sharon Marcus fills this gap, offering a practical, research-informed guide to an activity that can challenge even seasoned scholars. Marcus, who has given many academic talks in her career-and listened to even more-blends insights from learning and cognitive science, communications, rhetoric, and performance theory with her own seasoned judgment and firsthand observation to provide a pragmatic repertoire of dos and don'ts.

Each chapter addresses a central component of successful presentations, illustrated with examples drawn from a wide variety of academic talks, many available online. Marcus's cross-disciplinary perspective allows her to identify elements that all good academic talks have in common, while remaining attentive to field-specific norms. She defines what an academic talk is and isn't, and identifies its most important and challenging task: engaging the audience. How to Give a Good Academic Talk covers the beginnings and endings of talks, Q&A sessions, the design and use of slides, delivery, rehearsals, video conferencing platforms-and even offers wardrobe advice. Marcus's essential guide equips academics to communicate their ideas with confidence, precision, and intellectual generosity.

Positive and healthy work environments enhance job satisfaction and workplace engagement and play a significant role in the healthy functioning of library organizations. Higher levels of workplace satisfaction and engagement also contribute to increased productivity, creativity, and performance, and by extension improved services and organizational culture. But how do we define, cultivate, and sustain positive and healthy work environments, particularly in libraries, which are often under-resourced, unappreciated or devalued, or even toxic?

Building and Sustaining Positive and Healthy Work Environments examines the opportunities, challenges, and successes of fostering and nurturing workplace environments that enhance job satisfaction, engagement, and success.

This book explores the potential of relational research as a creative and participatory endeavor to produce knowledge. Bringing together insights from social construction, intersectional feminist frameworks, decolonial practices, queer theories, and queer worldmaking, it prompts researchers to reimagine the theoretical underpinnings and methodological choices that shape their work. In doing so, it cultivates a community of practice in which scholars engage the complex terrain of research to advance plural and inclusive forms of knowing.

This edited collection offers a global perspective on what knowledge is and how it is created, situating research practices within diverse cultural, disciplinary, and relational contexts through contributions from authors from different corners of the world. It illustrates methods that support navigating pressing global challenges, such as sustainability transitions, the surge of populism, and the enduring legacies of colonialism, racial, gendered, and sexual marginalization. An ideal resource for those interested in applying decolonial, inclusive, and interdisciplinary relational research methods, it offers students and researchers concrete ways to engage with inquiry as a situated and relational practice.

Thompson provides a guide to assessing university publication requirements and finding a niche in academia, including practical advice on how to organize material into manageable selections and citations for literature reviews. Chapters examine the writing process, discussing various practices for establishing a consistent schedule and writing for academic audiences. Paying particular attention to the submission process and deciphering reviewer comments, this How To Guide recommends reworking and revising articles for resubmission to increase the likelihood of getting published and gain a deeper understanding of journal feedback structures.

How To Write an Academic Journal Article in the Social Sciences is a crucial resource for graduate students and early career researchers seeking to broaden their understanding of journal writing and the publication process. Experienced academics will also benefit from its actionable advice to refresh their skills.

Qualitative research methods are essential for addressing central questions arising from clinical and organisational practice. In medicine and healthcare, knowing and scientific knowledge cannot be reduced to what is measurable alone. It also depends on subjectivity, interpretation, clinical reasoning, interaction and ethical judgement. This book develops a coherent methodological framework in which these dimensions are understood as integral to knowledge development rather than as residual or secondary concerns.

The opening chapters establish the philosophical foundations for a qualitative methodology grounded in healthcare practice and distinctly committed to the epistemic impact of subjectivity. Ontological assumptions about health and illness are made
explicit and systematically linked to epistemological and methodological choices. Subsequent chapters guide the reader through the core stages of the research process-from design and data development to analysis and interpretation-consistently demonstrating how underlying assumptions shape methodological strategies and conclusions. Empirical examples illustrate methodological reasoning, critical decisions and common pitfalls. Unlike many introductory texts, this book treats subjectivity, clinical judgement and interpretation not as threats to scientific rigour, but as indispensable
resources for knowledge development. Rather than offering a broad survey of qualitative traditions, it presents a coherent, practice-based approach that affirms the scientific legitimacy of qualitative research on its own terms.

Written primarily for students and researchers new to qualitative methods at bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels in medicine and healthcare, the book also invites more experienced scholars to reflect critically on established methodological practices.

Across more than 100 entries, leading experts present a brief history of the experimental method in the social sciences before discussing emerging trends and research methods. They propose that experimental methods are now widely regarded as important and, in many cases, accepted as the gold standard of empirical analysis. Entries acknowledge the rapid growth of experiments across the social sciences, focusing on issues related to a broad range of research such as open science, artificial intelligence and large language models.

The Encyclopedia of Experimental Social Science is an essential resource for scholars and students of economics, psychology, sociology and political science. Policymakers and researchers in other fields will also benefit from its fresh perspective on exploratory research.

Key Features:

• Features entries from over 100 scholars
• Easily navigable alphabetised entries written in an accessible style
• Covers core experimental methods, including randomised control trials, laboratory, field, lab-in-the-field, survey and information experiments
• Evaluates quasi-experimental approaches, such as regression discontinuity designs and human-robot interactions

Drawing on a broad array of theoretical viewpoints including liberal, postmodernist, and historical materialist accounts, the Encyclopedia examines key foundational concepts along the continuum of sociology, organization studies, business and critical management. Entries embrace the plurality of organizations to include and go beyond corporate workplaces, extending to universities, informal groups, cooperatives, libraries, and more. Key topics covered are work/life balance, intersectionality, Marxism, gig work, power, gendering, and race. Entries in this volume reflect the pressing issues that are currently reshaping the field such as algorithmic control, coercive organizations, digital nomads, greenwashing, organizational ecology, and systems thinking.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Organizational Sociology is an essential resource for scholars and students exploring empirical research and theory in the interdisciplinary field of organizational sociology, and its interface with a range of other disciplines such as political science, economics, psychology, and business management.

Key Features:

• Contains over 130 accessible entries
• Includes contributions from an international cohort of authors across the Global South and North
• Highlights the variety of styles, themes, methodologies, and theories across organizational sociology

In the era of ubiquitous computing and the Internet of things, is it still possible to go, or be, offline? Can we still find a more embedded, autonomous, and attentive way of being, away from the constant distraction of our phones and screens? Or is it time to reconcile ourselves to a future, where every thought and action is mediated by an algorithm?You Can Never Go Offline Again is an autoethnographic search for an elsewhere to the Internet. It chronicles the author's weekend digital detoxes, travels to Internet blackout zones, efforts at mindful consumption, and daily struggles to reign in his online activities, concluding that today there is no longer a meaningful distinction between online and off. The two have merged into one intermediated reality. Integrating literary memoir with anthropology, media studies, and philosophy, it takes stock of our digitally-saturated moment and attempts to chart a path forward. Written in accessible prose and illustrated with evocative photography, You Can Never Go Offline Again is essential reading for students and researchers of digital culture and anyone struggling to carve out a space for the in-person and face-to-face at a time when online has already become the default mode of being.

Leading experts explore key concepts, theories, empirical methods and groundbreaking studies and shed new light on central figures who have paved the development of the field. They demonstrate how economic sociology has become a powerful lens for scholarship throughout the social sciences and documents how the core programme has been supplemented, expanded and challenged by other approaches and contemporary methodologies.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology is an essential resource for scholars and students of sociology, social policy, economics, finance and political science. Economists and policymakers will also benefit from its comprehensive coverage of the field.

Key Features:

• Easily navigable alphabetised entries written in an accessible style
• Features over 80 entries from a diverse array of international scholars
• Outlines central theoretical concepts, crucial methods and empirical studies
• Cross-referencing and index encourage new perspectives and critical though
• Presents a complete overview of classic themes as well as cutting-edge lines of thinking

Leading authors in the field analyse precarity, the glass ceiling, definitions of excellence, work-life balance, the passion trap and the impact of 'publish or perish' cultures, revealing how gendered expectations and practices intersect with structural and cultural barriers. Drawing on the Horizon Europe project MINDtheGEPs, the book highlights key areas of cultural and structural resistance and innovation that challenge the 'fix the women' approach and promote systemic change. Chapters link macro, meso and micro levels of analysis within a gender-as-social-structure framework, underscoring the importance of feminist approaches in understanding and addressing inequalities and in redefining science as a collective, inclusive and ethical enterprise. The book ultimately advocates for gender-aware institutional transformation that fosters both equality and excellence.

Gender (In)equality in Research and Science is prime reading for scholars and students of gender studies, sociology, political science, and social policy. It is also relevant to higher education leaders, equality officers and policymakers for its concrete tools for transforming organisational gendered cultures and implementing and monitoring gender equality plans.

Feminist Digital Methods redefines the role of methods in research, pedagogy, and activism in an increasingly digitized world. Grounded in intersectional feminist epistemologies, the volume challenges the neoliberal fetishization of "methodological rigor" over ethical and political accountability. It frames methods as situated, socially embedded enactments shaped by historical, cultural, and material contexts. Contributors-spanning early-career scholars, practitioners, and activists-critically reflect on the tools, platforms, and approaches they use, highlighting how feminist digital methods can interrogate power, dismantle systemic exclusions, and create transformative pathways for research and activism. With chapters on algorithmic bias, crip epistemologies, feminist data visualization, social media ethics, multispecies GIS, and feminist game design, the book bridges theoretical debates and actionable practice. It is a resource for anyone seeking to combine digital tools with feminist commitments to care, justice, and reciprocity.

Entries examine diverse topics including how law informs the practice of peace negotiation and peace mediation; the legal status of peace agreements; critical approaches to peacemaking drawn from indigenous, feminist, queer, environmental and TWAIL perspectives; legal protections for negotiators and mediators; the work of legal institutions in resolving disputes including international and regional courts and customary approaches to dispute resolution; and how law can inform the resolution of contested issues such as accountability, detainees, institutional reform, and governance. Covering a wide range of international law regimes, as well as elements of domestic and customary law, the Encyclopedia explores how law can foster or safeguard peace. It highlights gaps in this area of scholarship, as well as emerging approaches and practices.

The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Peace is a vital resource for scholars and students of law, international relations, and peace and conflict studies. It is also beneficial for legal practitioners, policymakers, mediators, negotiators and NGOs.

Key Features:

• Contains over 130 entries
• Provides crucial reference points for further reading
• Evaluates the connections between topics in an accessible short form
• Presents interdisciplinary perspectives from criminology, anthropology, international relations, history and peace and conflict studies

Examining transdisciplinary research historically, philosophically and contextually, the book evaluates its evolving methodology and quality criteria. Authors demonstrate its practical application in various case studies, such as developing nature-based solutions in education, sustainable farming practices and developmental initiatives in subsistence marketplaces. The synthesis of the case experiences enables researchers to link their concepts, relationships and modes of knowledge production to transformative action, aiding efforts to address complex challenges arising from climate change, biodiversity crises and inclusive growth.

How to Organise Transdisciplinary Research for Transformative Action and Knowledge Co-Production is a key resource for scholars and students of business and management, education, research methods and sociology. It is also prime reading for educators, research funding agencies and management practitioners seeking actionable recommendations on how to implement transdisciplinary research.

Experimental Research: Brief Essays on Timeless Concepts offers a unique exploration of the experimental process that transcends disciplinary boundaries and technological trends. Through a series of concise, thought-provoking essays, the book distills enduring principles of scientific inquiry. Addressing foundational topics from measurement and dimensional analysis to cognitive factors in research and technical communication, it cultivates a deep, reflective understanding of experimentation as both an intellectual craft and a scientific discipline.

Organized into seven thematic chapters, the essays delve into topics rarely addressed in conventional manuals, including the epistemology of experimentation, creative thinking in research, principles of device design and the thoughtful integration of modern tools into contemporary experimental work. Rather than focusing on discipline-specific techniques, the authors emphasize universal aspects of experimentation that cut across fields, blending conceptual insight with practical relevance and historical perspective. The result is a timeless perspective on experimental methods that balances accessibility with intellectual rigor.

This volume is an essential resource for young scholars learning to design, conduct and interpret experiments independently, such as graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty who, despite solid technical backgrounds, have received little formal guidance in the conceptual and cognitive aspects of experimentation. For educators and established researchers, it offers fresh perspectives on mentoring the next generation of experimentalists in an era of rapid technological change.

Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences demystifies the process of writing winning research grant and fellowship proposals in the humanities, social sciences, and creative arts. Offering practical guidance, step-by-step instructions, and examples of successful proposals, Walker and Unruh outline the best practices to crack the proposal writing code. They reveal the most common critiques of proposal reviewers and offer advice on how to avoid frequent problem areas in conceptualizing and crafting research proposals. Contributions from agency and foundation program officers offer the perspective from the other side of the proposal submission portal, and emerging research funding trends, including how to navigate generative AI, are also covered. New to this edition are:

• Additional writing prompts, exercises, and tools that give readers hands-on activities to help generate parts of the proposal
• Updated guidance on how to identify appropriate grants
• Updated guidance on key tech skills (data management, timeline, etc.) for application preparation
• A sample budget and budget justification
• Additional "Perspective from program officer" boxes
• Discussion of challenges to interdisciplinary collaborations
• Discussion of how to navigate precarity in the research funding landscape

This book is essential reading for all those involved in funding applications. Graduate students, research administrators, early career faculty members, and tenured professors alike will gain new and effective strategies to write successful research proposals.

Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives, leading experts synthesize the key issues and challenges within international marketing. They examine crucial concepts including stimuli and barriers to international engagement, foreign environmental impacts, global market competition, foreign market selection and entry, international marketing strategies, and corporate social responsibility. Drawing on state-of-the-art marketing knowledge, entries evaluate the complex challenges international marketers face, from political risk and cross-cultural differences to buyer behavior differences and fierce global competition, serving as an essential reference point for understanding the variety and richness of contemporary international marketing.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of International Marketing Management is an illuminating and original resource for scholars and students of global marketing, international business and management, and strategic management. Policymakers and practitioners seeking to develop their knowledge and strategies in international marketing will also benefit from its astute analyses and pragmatic insights.

Key Features:

• Presents 61 entries organized into 20 distinct parts for ease of reference
• Provides insights from over 100 business scholars across 23 countries
• Amalgamates the numerous avenues of international marketing studies into one essential guide

The International Conference on Evolving Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences: Theory, Practice, and Transformation (ICEPHSS'25) aims to provide a dynamic platform for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to engage in interdisciplinary dialogues that address critical issues and emerging trends in the humanities and social sciences. The conference seeks to bridge theoretical insights with practical applications, exploring how advancements in technology, globalization, and societal shifts reshape these fields.

Key features include sessions on Digital Humanities, Education, Socioeconomic Dynamics, Cultural Transformations, and emerging areas like Food Culture and Identity. A distinct focus on integrating traditional disciplines with contemporary challenges-such as AI, sustainable development, and diversity-sets this conference apart. ICEPHSS'25 emphasizes not only academic rigor but also actionable strategies for addressing real-world problems.

Intended for academicians, policymakers, students, and professionals, the conference promotes collaboration across disciplines to foster innovative ideas and holistic understanding. Unlike other conferences, ICEPHSS'25 uniquely incorporates underexplored areas like culinary heritage and media literacy while prioritizing the impact of research in societal transformation. Participants will gain insights into evolving methodologies, network with global experts, and explore opportunities for future collaborations in shaping the future of humanities and social sciences.

This Research Handbook presents the various sides of the debate surrounding the replication crisis, providing detailed insight into the current state of research and suggesting future avenues for approaching the issue of replication in science, impacting not only psychology but a multitude of disciplines. Chapters assess whether the prevalence of empirical findings that fail to replicate studies constitute a crisis. Contributors explore topics such as improving the quality of replication science, preregistration in psychology and replication in marketing.

The Research Handbook on the Replication Crisis is a key resource for students and scholars of meta-science, psychology, research methods, and the wider social and behavioural sciences. It will also benefit researchers, practitioners and methodologists seeking a better understanding of this subject and how it might affect their field.

This illuminating Research Agenda opens up current debates and outlines potential developments in participatory mapping, an approach and set of practices relating to people's spatial knowledge and dedicated to spatial and environmental justice. Leading experts analyse scientific, methodological, social-political-cultural and technical issues in participatory mapping and Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS), emphasising ethics and good practice.

Investigating key issues, contested approaches and methodologies, researchers highlight the ethical dimensions of respect, safety and authority of knowledge. Chapters assess participatory mapping and PPGIS in citizen science and in affirming identity, with specific applications ranging from mapping indigenous culture and memories, to traditional land management and inclusive urban accessibility. Critiquing both innovative developments such as soundscapes and projection models, as well as established tools such as 3D modelling, remote sensing and phone apps, chapters also address meta issues, including evaluating outcomes of mapping applications and the impacts of AI.

A Research Agenda for Participatory Mapping and PPGIS is a valuable resource for scholars and students of geography, participatory research approaches and politics and public policy. Practitioners looking to implement PPGIS will benefit from its evaluation of current debates and potential developments in the field.

Entries explore the role of the past, history and memory in organisation theory and practice, highlighting how historical thinking has become a cornerstone of organisation studies. Contributing authors establish a shared vocabulary, enabling readers to navigate complex terminology and engage more confidently with historical research.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Historical Organisation Studies is a valuable resource for scholars and students of management, organisation theory and business administration. Its insights inform strategic decision-making, change management and organisational storytelling, making it prime reading for practitioners and organisational leaders.

Key Features:

• Contains over 140 accessible entries
• Encourages ongoing dialogue as the field develops
• Features contributions from over 150 international scholars, presenting diverse perspectives, cultures and research traditions from areas such as history, philosophy, sociology and communication studies

Doing Qualitative Research Critically: Disruptive Practices and New Materialist Entanglements interrogates practices of doing qualitative research in the social sciences. It inspires researchers to think differently about doing qualitative research and entering into contact with emergent methodologies of gathering, analysing, and writing about social and organisational events.

In advancing the critical agenda of qualitative methodologies, the authors introduce theoretical perspectives, such as poststructuralism, posthumanism, and feminist new materialism, to disrupt mainstream methodologies and develop more affirmative engagements with human/non-human relationalities. The problematisation of qualitative research is achieved through introducing art pieces (painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and film) to engage the reader at different levels: to generate emotions, and to provoke thoughts and reflections on the ethical and political character of qualitative research.

This engaging book is an essential read for research students and researchers across the social sciences and humanities, interested in exploring the landscape of critical qualitative methodologies and experimenting with doing research differently.

Expert contributors examine crime and perceptions of safety across different transit settings, and cover a comprehensive range of issues including cyber-attacks, theft and violence, as well as precautionary safety measures. The Encyclopedia explores methodologies to document and improve understanding of transit crime and the varied responses to addressing it, including crime mapping, virtual reality and AI-driven surveillance.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Transit Crime and Safety is a crucial resource for scholars and students of transport studies, criminology, geography, urban planning, sociology, engineering and computer sciences. It is also a vital reference point for practitioners in public transport, transit authorities, NGOs and international organizations committed to safer, inclusive and environmentally responsible transport systems.

Key Features:

• Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives
• Presents over 130 clear and accessible entries
• Adopts a global approach, highlighting intersectional realities of mobility, vulnerability and inclusion

This conceptual Atlas of Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Philosophy and Science presents visual overviews, thematic outlines, surveys and summaries of the many thematic aspects of this long period of European intellectual history, c. 400 to 1600.

Conceptual charts and 'maps' are well suited for structuring, organizing and presenting information, although this approach is rarely used in the humanities. The pictorial representations in this atlas are multi-dimensional: chronological, thematic, rating the importance of the thinker or tradition and showing affinities and tensions between them. Many of the diagrams are chronologically proportional which gives the reader an immediate sense of time and historical distance. This book constitutes a sort of 'intellectual atlas', in many ways comparable to a geographical atlas, but instead charting out the intellectual landscape of this period. The topics covered include the history of medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam; the history of science; the Renaissance; the history of books, literacy and education; the history of knowledge; and medieval and Renaissance historiography.

Each diagram offers the perfect starting point to a fuller understanding of an aspect of medieval and Renaissance thought, allowing students to engage with the topic visually to support making their own assessments. The atlas can function as a companion volume to, or as a reference work for, a wide range of courses, approaches to and interests in medieval and Renaissance history.

Contributors investigate complex interplays to explain how sexuality manifests across locations, time, cultures and contexts. They propose that sexuality is not merely a biological function, but a social construct that encompasses desire, identity and behavior. From the basis of desire to marriage and infidelity and from the construction of sexuality to fantasies and the future of sex, this Encyclopedia explores the diversity of sexual norms and practices across societies.

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Sex and Society is an essential resource for scholars and students of social policy, sociology, gender and sexuality. Government policymakers will similarly benefit from its actionable recommendations for fostering inclusion and diversity.

Key Features:

• Outlines how globalization has facilitated the exchange of sexual norms and practices
• Provides insight into how sexuality has shaped human history and continues to influence the world today
• Assesses the symbiotic relationship between sexuality and society across the public spheres of law, religion and media
• Evaluates how the global spread of LGBTQIA+ rights has met with both progress, as in the legalization of same-sex marriage, and backlash, evidenced by anti-gay legislation in parts of Africa and Eastern Europe