Research Methods Books

New and Published Books

1. Study Skills for Sports Studies

   By Tara Magdalinski

   Starting university can be a daunting prospect, as students come to grips with new ways of working, learning and thinking. Studying sport at university poses particular challenges, with students often engaged in playing or coaching sport alongside their studies and having unconventional working...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

   Edited by Jason Mazanov

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of evidence from the hard end of science, telling us how drugs work, how drug testing works, and how many athletes have fallen foul of the system. The evidence from social science is still building momentum. For example,...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Sports Performance Analysis

   Edited by Tim McGarry, Peter O'Donoghue, Jaime Sampaio

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sport performance analysis techniques help coaches, athletes and sport scientists develop an objective understanding of actual sport performance, as opposed to self-report, fitness tests or laboratory based experiments. For example, contemporary performance analysis enables elite sports people and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods

   Edited by Laura Azzarito, David Kirk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   To understand and more creatively capture the social world, visual methods have increasingly become used by researchers in the social sciences and education. However, despite the rapid development of visual-based knowledge, and despite the obvious links between human movement and visual forms of...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
5. Research and Practice in Physical Education

   By Deborah Tannehill, Ann MacPhail, Ger Halbert, Frances Murphy

   Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessible and hard to digest. This innovative new text is designed to assist physical education students, pre-service teachers, practising teachers and teacher...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Sports Coaching Research

   Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

   By Anthony Bush, Michael Silk, David Andrews, Hugh Lauder

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. The World of Physical Culture in Sport and Exercise

   Visual Methods for Qualitative Research

   Edited by Cassandra Phoenix, Brett Smith

   Within qualitative research in the social sciences, the last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the use of visual methods. Visual Methods in Physical Culture is the first book in the field of sport and exercise sciences dedicated to harnessing the potential of using visual methods within...

   Published October 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. Research Methods: The Key Concepts

   By Michael Hammond, Jerry Wellington

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive overview of the many methods and methodologies of social research. Each entry provides a critical definition and examines the value and difficulties of a particular method or methodology of concept across different fields of social research....

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
9. Understanding Sport

   A socio-cultural analysis

   By John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel, Kath Woodward

   Series: CRESC

   In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a...

   Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Mixed Methods Research in the Movement Sciences

    Case Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Dance

    Edited by Oleguer Camerino, Marta Castaner, Teresa Anguera

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport and Exercise Science

    Mixed methods research techniques, combining both quantitative and qualitative elements, have become well established throughout the social, behavioural and natural sciences. This is the first book to focus on the application of mixed methods research in the movement sciences, specifically in sport...

    Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge