Clifford, N: Key Methods in Geography

PART ONE: GETTING STARTED IN GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH Getting Started in Geographical Research: How This Book Can Help - Nick Clifford, Shaun French and Gill Valentine How to Conduct a Literature Search - Mick Healey and Ruth L Healey Ethical Practice in Geographical Research - Iain Hay Health and Safety in the Field - Joanna Bullard PART TWO: GENERATING AND WORKING WITH DATA IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Making Use of Secondary Data - Paul White Conducting Questionnaire Surveys - Sara L McLafferty Finding Historical Sources - Miles Ogborn Semi-Structured Interviews and Focus Groups - Robyn Longhurst Participant Observation - Eric Laurier Geography and the Interpretation of Visual Imagery - Rob Bartram Participatory Research Methods - Myrna M Breitbart Working in Different Cultures - Fiona M Smith Internet Mediated Research - Clare Madge Diaries as a Research Method - Alan Latham PART THREE: GENERATING AND WORKING WITH DATA IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Getting Information About the Past: Palaeo and Historical Data Sources of Climate - Catherine Souch Making Observations and Measurements in the Field - Alice Turkington Sampling in Geography - Stephen Rice Analysing a Natural System - Ellen Wohl Numerical Modelling in Physical Geography: Understanding Explanation and Prediction in Physical Geography - Stuart N Lane Using Remotely Sensed Imagery - Paul Aplin PART FOUR: REPRESENTING AND INTERPRETING GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Data Handling and Representation - Richard Field Mapping and Graphicacy - Chris Perkins Using Statistics to Describe and Explore Data - Danny Dorling An Introduction to Geostatistics - Adrian Chappell Using Geographical Information Systems - Michael Batty Statistical Analysis Using PASW (formerly SPSS) - John H McKendrick Coding Transcripts and Diaries - Meghan Cope Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis - Bettina van Hoven Analyzing Historical and Archival Sources - Iain S Black Analysing Cultural Texts - Marcus A Doel Writing Essays, Reports and Dissertations - Michael

Professor Valentine has held prestigious international visiting fellowships at the Universities of Sydney, Australia and Otago, New Zealand and has visited and given keynote addresses at a range of prestigious international conferences. She was co-founder and co-editor of the international journal Social and Cultural Geography, and co-edited Gender, Place and Culture. She has undertaken international research in Europe, Africa and the USA and is committed to developing the University of Sheffield's international strategy within the Faculty of Social Sciences.

'An excellent and very comprehensive text and highly recommended for all our undergraduates (around 120 students). The topics covered are very important for undergraduate dissertations and even postgraduate work. It is much more comprehensive than some other texts and is much more specific to the environmental/spatial sciences. This is definitely a text that will be strongly recommended to our students'