Research today / Malcolm Crowe -- Studying complexity : are we approaching the limits of science? / Ian Boyd -- A sustainable environment? : the 'lopsided view' of an environmental geochemist / Andrew S. Hursthouse -- Use and abuse of statisticians / Mario Hair -- Research in information systems : mine and my colleagues' / Abel Usoro -- Hearing lips and seeing voices : illusion and serendipity in auditory-visual perception research / John MacDonald -- Research in modern history / Martin Myant -- 'Scientificity' and its alternatives : aspects of philosophy and methodology within media and cultural studies research / Neil Blain -- The truth as personal documentation : an anthropological narrative of hospital portering / Nigel Rapport -- Philosophy, nursing and the nature of evidence / P. Anne Scott -- Researching the spiritual : outcome or process? / Harriet Mowat and John Swinton -- Using narrative in care and research : the patient's journey / John Atkinson.

An important book by researchers from across disciplines introducing varying ideas on research, important in these days of inter-disciplinary and multi-centered investigation. The book introduces academics to new areas of endeavour and encourages researchers and students to think broadly when devising their studies. Linking chapters present the contributions in an historical and theoretical context, identifying the themes between the approaches, and encourages new thinking about old problems. Includes contributions from leading researchers across the quantitative-qualitative spectrum, from marine biology to spirituality.

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