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Key Methods in Geography

Third Edition
by Nicholas Clifford, Meghan Cope, Thomas Gillespie and Shaun French

Student Resources

  1. Getting Started in Geographical Research
    • Further Reading
  2. Health, Safety and Risk in the Field
    • Further Reading
  3. On Being Ethical In Geographical Research
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  4. How to Conduct a Literature Search
    • Further Reading
  5. Effective Research Communication
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  6. Working in Different Cultures and Different Languages
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  7. Historical and Archival Research
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  8. Conducting Questionnaire Surveys
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  9. Semi-Structured Interviews and Focus Groups
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  10. Respondent Diaries
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  11. Participant and Non-Participant Observation
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  12. Researching Affect and Emotion
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  13. Participatory Action Research
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  14. Textual Analysis
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  15. Interpreting the Visual
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  16. Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  17. Researching Virtual Communities
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  18. Critical GIS
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Supplementary Material
  19. Quantitative Modelling in Human Geography
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  20. Making Observations and Measurements in the Field
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  21. Making Observations And Measurements in the Laboratory
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  22. Getting Information from the Past: Paleoecological Studies of Terrestrial Ecosystems
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  23. Numerical Modelling: Understanding Explanation and Prediction in Physical Geography
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  24. Simulation and Reduced Complexity Models
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  25. Remote Sensing and Satellite Earth Observation
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  26. Digital Terrain Analysis
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  27. Environmental GIS
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  28. Models and Data in Biogeography and Landscape Ecology
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  29. Environmental Audit, Appraisal and Value
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  30. Making Use of Secondary Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  31. Using Statistics to Describe and Explore Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Supplementary Material
  32. Exploring and Presenting Quantitative Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  33. Case Study Methodology
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  34. Mapping and Graphicacy
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  35. Statistical Analysis using MINITAB And SPSS
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
    • Supplementary Material
  36. Organizing, Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  37. Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
    • Exercises
  38. Video, Audio and Technology-based Applications
    • SAGE Journal Articles
    • Further Reading
  • Study Skills

Further Reading

Further reading links to supplement your studies.

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  • Boyd, D. and Crawford, K. (2012). ‘Critical Questions for Big Data’, Information, Communication & Society, 15(5): 662–79.
     
  • Crampton, J. W., Graham, M., Poorthuis, A., Shelton, T., Stephens, M., Wilson, M. W. and Zook, M. A. (2013). ‘Beyond the geotag: situating “big data” and leveraging the potential of the geoweb. Cartography and Geographic Information Science’, 40(2): 130–39.
     
  • Elwood, S. (2014). ‘Straddling the fence: Critical GIS and the geoweb’, Progress in Human Geography.
     
  • Goodchild, M. F. (2007). ‘Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography’, GeoJournal, 69(4): 211–21.
     
  • Graham, M. and Shelton, T. (2013). ‘Geography and the future of big data, big data and the future of geography’, Dialogues in Human Geography, 3(3): 255–61.
     
  • Kitchin, R. M. (2013). ‘Big data and human geography: Opportunities, challenges and risk’, Dialogues in Human Geography, 3(3): 262–67.
     
  • Shearmur, R. (2015). ‘Dazzled by data: Big Data, the census and urban geography’, Urban Geography, 1–4. 

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