Methods in human geography : a guide for students doing a research project / edited by Robin Flowerdew and David Martin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Philosophies underlying human geography research -- Choosing a topic -- Finding previous work on the topic -- Secondary data -- Questionnaire design and sampling -- Tell me about... using interviews as a research methodology -- Focus groups -- Participatory approaches and diagramming techniques -- Participant -- Analyzing numerical spatial data -- Analysing categorical data -- Analysing qualitative materials -- Textual analysis: reading culture and context -- Visual methodologies: what you see is not always what you get -- Geographical information systems and spatial analysis -- Designing the report -- Writing the report -- Illustrating the report -- Conclusion.