Research skills for policy and development how to find out fast / edited by Alan Thomas and Giles Mohan.
Unlike a simple h̀ow to' guide, Research Skills for Policy and Development provides a critique of various methods and situates these approaches within r̀eal life' organisational settings, enabling those working in or studying development to locate, evaluate and use relevant information qui...
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Los Angeles
Sage Publications
2007
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Table of Contents:
- Information needs and policy change / Stephen Potter & Ramaya Subrahmanian
- Boundaries for thinking and action / Chris Blackmore & Ray Ison
- Grabbing attention / Joseph Hanlon
- Communicating results / Joanna Chataway, Avril Joffe & Jill Mordaunt
- Interrogating information through a literature study / Stephanie Barrientos
- Interpreting institutional discourses / Bridget O'Laughlin
- People as informants / Philip Woodhouse
- Investigation as empowerment : using participatory methods / Linda Mayoux & Hazel Johnson
- Doing incorrect research : the importance of the subjective and the personal in researching poverty / Dina Abbott
- Thinking with quantitative data / Chandan Mukherjee & Marc Wuyts
- Using evidence in advocacy / Sue Mayer
- Organizational assessment and institutional footprints / Chris Roche
- Challenging cases / Alan Thomas.