Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (Meridian: Australian Geographical Perspectives) - Softcover

Hay, Iain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195507878 ISBN 13: 9780195507874

Publisher: OUP Australia & New Zealand, 2001

Synopsis

Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography provides concise and accessible evidance on how to conduct qualitative research in human geography

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About the Author

Iain Hay is Professor of Human Geography at Flinders University, South Australia and the Australian Learning and Teaching Council's Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. His principal research interests revolve around geographies of domination and oppression, work for which he received a LittD from the University of Canterbury in 2009. He is author or editor of eight books - several of which have gone multiple editions - and more than 75 scholarly chapters and papers in journals such as Geografiska Annaler B, Political Geography, Professional Geographer, and Progress in Human Geography. In 2006 Iain was named Australian University Teacher of the Year. He was admitted as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2008 and as a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 2009. He is currently Vice President (President-Elect) of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Synopsis

Provides an introductory but comprehensive account of the main forms of research practice in geography and the environmental sciences. It aims to instruct novice researchers to conduct their own research. Contributors are drawn from Australia and New Zealand and the book is designed for use at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Australia & New Zealand
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195507878
• ISBN 13: 9780195507874
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248