Doing Research in the Real World

The book guides students through the research process from start to finish, setting out the skills needed to design and conduct effective research and introduces the reader to the reality of conducting research in the real world. It gives practical advice on how best to select appropriate projects, design strategies, sources and methods, and provides the tools needed to collect, analyze and present data.

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Comes with free access to the interactive ebook for 12 months when you buy the paperback version.

Available with Perusall - an award-winning eBook platform featuring social annotation tools that allow students and instructors to collaboratively mark up and discuss their SAGE textbook. Learn more. 

The book is also supported by interactive learning features, enabling students to develop their own research. The suite of online resources includes podcasts, glossary, annotated full text-journal articles, planning a research project toolkit, video introductions to chapters / themes, real world data, real examples of coding, video top tips and encyclopaedia entries.

David Gray was Professor of Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich. His research interests, and publication record, included research methods, management learning (particularly coaching and mentoring), professional identity, action learning, reflective learning, management learning in SMEs and the factors that contribute to SME success. He published books and articles on research methods, organizational learning, and coaching and mentoring.

David led a number of EU-funded research programmes including one examining the impact of coaching on the resilience of unemployed managers in their job-searching behaviours and another on how action learning can sustain unemployed managers in starting their own business. He also completed a global survey into the professional identity of coaches.