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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited volume discusses the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers are currently facing whilst attempting to document the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities throughout Europe.

"This Handbook presents established and innovative perspectives on involving older adults as co-creators in ageing research. It reorients research and policy toward more inclusive and adequate designs that capture the voices and needs of older adults. The Handbook: - introduces types of participatory approaches in ageing research; - highlights key methodological aspects of these approaches; - gives insights from projects across different cultural contexts and academic disciplines, showing ways in which older participants can be involved in co-designing different stages of the research cycle; - examines key issues to consider when involving older participants at each step of the research process; - includes the voices of older adults directly; - draws out conclusions and points ways forward for future research. This Handbook will be essential reading for researchers and students interested in the field of ageing and/or participatory methods, as well as for those policy stakeholders in the fields of ageing and demographic change, social and public policy, or health and wellbeing who are interested in involving older adults in policy processes. It will be useful for third sector advocacy organisations and international non-governmental and public agencies working either in citizen involvement/participation or the ageing sector"--

Margaret Price examines the experiences of disabled academics to show how attempts at providing individual accommodations actually impede rather than enhancing access.

"This textbook takes a case study approach to media and audience analytics. Realizing the best way to understand analytics in the digital age is to practice it, the authors have created a collection of cases using data sets that present real and hypothetical scenarios for students to work through. Media Analytics introduces the key principles of media economics and management. It outlines how to interpret and present results, the principles of data visualization and storytelling and the basics of research design and sampling. Although shifting technology makes measurement and analytics a dynamic space, this book takes an evergreen, conceptual approach, reminding students to focus on the principles and foundations that will remain constant. Aimed at upper-level students in the fast-growing area of media analytics in a cross-platform world, students using this text will learn how to find the stories in the data and to present those stories in an engaging way to others. Instructor and Student Resources include an Instructor's Manual, discussion questions, short exercises and links to additional resources. They are available online at www.routledge.com/cw/hollifield"--

Entscheidungen in Polizei, Politik und Verwaltung sollen adäquat theoretisch fundiert sein und auf einer soliden empirischen Basis gründen. Um diese Grundlagen zu entwickeln, sind Kenntnisse der wesentlichen Grundzüge empirischer Sozialforschung unverzichtbar. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet daher neben einer allgemeinen Einführung in die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung praxisbezogene und beispielgestützte Hinweise für die Konzeption, Durchführung, Auswertung und Darstellung von zahlreichen quantitativen, qualitativen und mixed-methods-Ansätzen. Darüber hinaus werden der Nutzen, aber auch die Grenzen sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung für die Polizei und die öffentliche Verwaltung aufgezeigt. Die Herausgeber Dr. Stefan Hollenberg ist Professor an der Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen (HSPV NRW), Abteilung Köln. Er lehrt insbesondere Psychologie sowie sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden/Statistik. Dr. Claudia Kaup ist Dozentin für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie an der Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen (HSPV NRW), Abteilung Münster.

James R. Shaw argues that the centerpiece of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is made up of two completely different projects, with different guiding questions and methodologies. He claims that central, recurrent interpretive difficulties trace to conflating these two projects. Once we separate them out, we get our first clear understanding of the point of Wittgenstein's work. He then shows the power of Wittgenstein's resulting views by applying the resources of the reading to a well-known skeptical problem (that purports to demonstrate there are no facts about what we mean by any of our words), showing that it provides a new and illuminating way of rebutting that skepticism with extremely weak resources.

Introduction -- A plausibility primer -- Credence for conclusions -- Plausibility and decision theory -- Theory choice and theory diagnosis in science -- Reasoning about risk -- Coping with moral uncertainty -- Plausible inference in legal contest -- When econs are human -- In search of philosophical method -- Epilogue: behind and beyond.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Basic Concepts -- 1.1. What is a health disparity? -- 1.2. A brief historical perspective -- 1.3. Some examples -- 1.4. Determinants of health -- 1.4.1. Biology and genetics -- 1.4.2. Individual behavior -- 1.4.3. Health services -- 1.4.4. Social determinants of health -- 1.4.5. (Health) policies -- 1.5. The challenging issue of race -- 1.5.1. Racial segregation as a social determinant of health -- 1.5.2. Racism, segregation, and inequality -- 1.6. Role of data visualization in health disparities research -- 1.7. A note on notation adopted in this book -- 2. Overall Estimation of Health Disparities -- 2.1. Data and measurement -- 2.2. Disparity indices -- 2.2.1. Total disparity indices -- 2.2.2. Disparity indices measuring differences between groups -- 2.2.3. Disparity indices from complex surveys -- 2.3. Randomized experiments: an idealized estimate of disparity -- 2.4. Model-based estimation: adjusting for confounders -- 2.4.1. Regression approach -- 2.4.1.1. Model-assisted survey regression -- 2.4.2. Peters-Belson approach -- 2.4.2.1. Peters-Belson approach for complex survey data -- 2.4.2.2. Peters-Belson approach for clustered data -- 2.4.3. Disparity drivers -- 2.4.3.1. Disparity drivers for complex survey data -- 2.5. Matching and propensity scoring -- 2.6. Discrete outcomes -- 2.6.1. Binary outcomes -- 2.6.2. Nominal and ordinal outcomes -- 2.6.3. Poisson regression and log-linear models -- 2.7. Survival analysis -- 2.7.1. Survivor and hazard functions -- 2.7.2. Common parametric models -- 2.7.3. Estimation -- 2.7.4. Inference -- 2.7.5. Non-parametric estimation of S(y) -- 2.7.6. Cox proportional hazards model -- 2.8. Multi-level modeling -- 2.8.1. Estimation and inference -- 2.9. Generalized estimating equations.

Multisensory Landscapes: theories, research fields, methods - an Introduction -- Theory and meaning of multisensory landscapes -- The multisensory Florentine landscapes – an update after Georg Simmel -- Multisensuality versus visual primacy of landscape perception -- Observing landscape. A systems theoretical approach -- Moving Baton Rouge - from cinematic representations, phenomenological approaches and historical developments of the 'multivillage Metropolis' -- The multisensory construction of landscape – the computer adventure game "Louisiana: The Secret of the Swamps" -- From multisensory to ex-sensory – from landscapes of displeasure to landscapes of fear -- Multisensory Landscapes – Smellscapes -- To what extent are zoo landscapes staged? – A multisensory walk through the Wilhelma Zoo -- Multisensory approaches to a disaster place? – A Phenomenological Walk through Altenahr after the Flood Disaster -- Geospatial Data Literacy: Considering the Multisensory Perspective -- Street-food and multisensorial construction of cityscapes -- Influence of perceptual experiences, especially sounds, on forest attractiveness -- Fleeting Beauty and Constant Noise – Perception of the Urban Landscape (using the Example of the Eastern Edge of the Rhine-Main Agglomeration). .

Big data and algorithmic decision-making have been touted as game-changing developments in management research, but they have their limitations. Qualitative approaches should not be cast aside in the age of digitalisation, since they facilitate understanding of quantitative data and the questioning of assumptions and conclusions that may otherwise lead to faulty implications being drawn, and - crucially - inaccurate strategies, decisions and actions. This handbook comprises three parts: Part I highlights many of the issues associated with 'unthinking digitalisation', particularly concerning the overreliance on algorithmic decision-making and the consequent need for qualitative research. Part II provides examples of the various qualitative methods that can be usefully employed in researching various digital phenomena and issues. Part III introduces a range of emergent issues concerning practice, knowing, datafication, technology design and implementation, data reliance and algorithms, digitalisation.

"'Narrative Portraits in Qualitative Research' offers an analytical approach to qualitative data. Through narrative portraiture, research findings can be contextualised in broader social narratives without losing sight of the unique personal qualities of the research encounter. Drawing a parallel between the artistic work of a portrait maker in depicting a subject - sometimes an object - and the work of the researcher in exploring people's experiences, narrative portraiture invites a close-up into a person's narrated and embodied experience and argues that one of the main research findings in qualitative research is the person themselves; their circumstances, and their life story. The book proposes four approaches to narrative portraiture: (1) a systematic approach to narrative analysis, (2) the use of phronesis in narrative portraiture, (3) the concept of 'imagined portraits' as a collaborative approach between visual arts and social sciences, and (4) the use of 'performative portraits' both as an analytic tool and product for research communication. This book will help qualitative researchers create first-person narratives that will give a glimpse into the participants' lives in a way that is simultaneously deep, concise, and evocative"--Taylor & Francis website