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Books for health professionals undertaking research
Research Methods for Health Care Practice:Research Methods for Health Care Practice: by Frances Griffiths
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £14.46
Guide to developing your own ideas into robust research - based on my experience
Doing Qualitative Research (Research Methods for Primary Care)Doing Qualitative Research (Research Methods for Primary Care)
Buy new: £32.29 / Used from: £46.78
Written by and for health professionals - its first edition got me into qualitative research
Realistic EvaluationRealistic Evaluation by Dr Ray Pawson
Buy new: £20.47 / Used from: £18.00
The best book to read if you want to work out whether and how a new way of working makes a difference in your health care organisation
Real World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-researchersReal World Research: A Resource for Social Scientists and Practitioner-researchers by Colin Robson
Buy new: £21.56 / Used from: £18.74
Excellent book covering social science research methods, written in a style health professionals can engage with
Time (Key Concepts)Time (Key Concepts) by Barbara Adam
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £18.16
A book that made me stop and think about time and how I understood it
Fuzzy-Set Social ScienceFuzzy-Set Social Science by CC Ragin
Buy new: £18.53 / Used from: £13.24
Part 1 'Diversity Orientated Research' is an excellent exploration of link between individual cases and populations in research
Qualitative Methods for Health Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series)Qualitative Methods for Health Research (Introducing Qualitative Methods series) by Dr Judith Green
Buy used from: £56.99
Excellent guide that I lend to my students especially when unsure about analysis
Understanding DataUnderstanding Data by Bonnie Erickson
Buy used from: £15.95
Now quite old but the first part provides excellent introduction to exploratory statistics for understanding your data
Complexity for CliniciansComplexity for Clinicians by Tim Holt
Buy new: £26.55 / Used from: £20.00
Introduces complexity science to those working in clinical practice
Complexity and Healthcare: An IntroductionComplexity and Healthcare: An Introduction
Buy new: £26.13 / Used from: £22.00
A basic introduction for those new to the ideas of complexity science
Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex SystemsComplexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems by Paul Cilliers
Buy new: £18.68 / Used from: £23.15
One of the best expositions of complexity from a social science perspective - but you may not want to read it all
Explaining Society: An Introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Critical Realism: Interventions)Explaining Society: An Introduction to Critical Realism in the Social Sciences (Critical Realism: Interventions) by Berth Danermark
Buy new: £26.30 / Used from: £33.48
A hard read but explains in detail the 'critical realist' view of what we can know about the world