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Resources for Chapter 1

Examples of real world studies (p.12)

These examples have been chosen to illustrate something of the diversity of real world research

studies. They are not put forward as model exemplars of how to do it - nor as the reverse. All have

been found via an Internet search. Unless a particular study is of direct interest to you, it is by no

means crucial that you chase them up as the titles give an indication of the nature of the study.

Bungay, V., Malchy, L., Buxton, J., Johnson, J., MacPherson, D., & Rosenfeld, T. (2006). Life with

jib: A snapshot of street youth's use of crystal methamphetamine. Addiction Research & Theory,

14(3), 235-251. doi:10.1080/16066350500270901

Bushman, B. (2007). That Was a Great Commercial, but What Were They Selling? Effects of

Violence and Sex on Memory for Products in Television Commercials. Journal of Applied Social

Psychology, 37(8), 1784-1796. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00237.x

Cornell, D., Krosnick, J., & Chang, L. (2006). Student Reactions to Being Wrongly Informed of

Failing a High-Stakes Test: The Case of the Minnesota Basic Standards Test. Educational

Policy, 20(5), 718-751. doi:10.1177/0895904805284123

Eltiti, S., Wallace, D., Ridgewell, A., Zougkou, K., Russo, R., & Sepulveda, F. ... Fox, E. (2007).

Does Short-Term Exposure to Mobile Phone Base Station Signals Increase Symptoms in

Individuals Who Report Sensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields? A Double-Blind Randomized

Provocation Study. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(11), 1603-1608.

doi:10.1289/ehp.10286

Knox, L., Guerra, N., Williams, K., & Toro, R. (2011). Preventing Childrens Aggression in

Immigrant Latino Families: A Mixed Methods Evaluation of the Families and Schools Together

Program. American Journal of Community Psychology, 48(1-2), 65-76. doi:10.1007/s10464-

010-9411-0

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Lee, L., Lee, D., & Woo, J. (2007). Effect of Tai Chi on state self-esteem and health-related quality

of life in older Chinese residential care home residents. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 16(8), 1580-

1582. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02061.x

Paige-Smith, A., & Rix, J. (2011). Researching early intervention and young children's perspectives

- developing and using a listening to children approach. British Journal of Special Education,

38(1), 28-36. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8578.2011.00494.x

Roberts, L., Lafta, R., Garfield, R., Khudhairi, J., & Burnham, G. (2004). Mortality before and after

the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey. The Lancet, 364(9448), 1857-1864.

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(04)17441-2

Seiter, J. (2007). Ingratiation and Gratuity: The Effect of Complimenting Customers on Tipping

Behavior in Restaurants. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37(3), 478-485.

doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00169.x

South, J. (2006). Community arts for health: an evaluation of a district programme. Health

Education, 106(2), 155-168. doi:10.1108/09654280610650972

Thelwell, R., & Maynard, I. (2003). The effects of a mental skills package on repeatable good

performance in cricketers. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 4(4), 377-396. doi:10.1016/s1469-

0292(02)00036-5

Note The simplest way of locating these references is just to copy the title (or DOI when available)

into a search engine such as Google. This typically gives you several different locations for the article.

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Annotated references to further reading for chapter 1 (p.13)

The following books are for the reader who feels the need to gain an appreciation of some current

controversies and concerns about social research. David Byrne, John Law, Nigel Mellor, Ian

Shapiro and Stephen Toulmin share the view that there is something seriously amiss with current

orthodoxies in social research and research methods. They suggest possible solutions. Van de

Vens engaged scholarship has a similar agenda to that of Real World Research. Finally,

something different from Kristin Luker and some advanced warnings and advice about 'when

research goes off the rails'.

Byrne, D. (2011). Applying social science. Bristol: Policy Press. Wide ranging critique of much

current social research. Argues that there is no such thing as a 'pure' science of the social, and

that the inevitability of taking an applied stance imposes obligations on researchers to challenge

inequality and injustice.

Goldacre, B. (2014). I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that. London: Fourth Estate.

Pick of the journalism from a writer who is highly critical of bad science. As a reviewer says It is,

in essence, a series of worked examples of how to phrase, and then analyse, a scientific question

(C.M. Byatt, Amazon reader review). Compulsive reading.

Jason, A., & Glenwick, D.S. (Eds.) (2012). Methodological approaches to community-based research.

Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Comprehensive reference on research

designs for exploring real world social problems.

Law, J. (2004). After method: Mess in social science research. London: Routledge. Presents a

stimulating and controversial argument about what went wrong with research methods. He

claims that we shouldnt be looking for clarity and precision as things in the real world are messy

- fluid, elusive, or multiple. Proposals are presented to reinvent research practice and politics to

deal with the mess.

Luker, K. (2008). Salsa dancing into the social sciences: Research in an age of info-glut.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. As a reviewer put it '... a charming and effective

manual on how to get through the research process with most of one's enthusiasm still intact'

(thanks to Lani Florian for suggesting it).

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Mellor, N. (2009). The secrets of the doctorate: An introduction to messy method as a means of

creating knowledge. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Practitioner Press. (available as a free pdf). An

engaging and practical account of the mess of uncertainty at the heart of research activity - and

how to live with it. Particularly relevant to those considering some form of action research and

seeking reassurance in coping with the complexity of the task.

Shapiro, I. (2008). The flight from reality in the human sciences. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University

Press. Criticises many current practices and argues for problem driven social research rooted in a

realist philosophy.

Streiner, D. L. and Sidani, S. eds (2010). When research goes off the rails: Why it happens and

what you can do about it. New York, NY: Guilford. Some of the challenges you are likely to face

and the mistakes you may make. Very 'real world". Come back to it in times of trouble.

Toulmin, S. (2003). Return to reason. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Argues

persuasively for a more open-minded, informal reasonableness, accepting uncertainty and

complexity, in the approach to research - and against ideology, abstract theories and strict

rationality.

Van de Ven, A. H. (2007). Engaged scholarship: A guide for organisational and social research.

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Argues for research which is both rigorous and relevant to the

contemporary world. From the perspective of management research but generally relevant.

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