A Feminist Companion to Research Methods in Psychology

<b>The Feminist Companion </b>series includes books which act as your friends and mentors in book form supporting you in your studies especially when things get tough. <br><b><br></b>This companion offers a better-informed understanding of research methods exploring key topics such as ethics reproducibility reliability and validity and research design through a feminist lens. The ethics of research relationships are explored alongside issues to do with prejudices and biases implicated in psychology’s treatment of women. <br><br>Ultimately this book aims to develop your critical and analytical skills by encouraging a questioning approach to understanding how psychological knowledge is produced and by offering alternative feminist-informed approaches to framing research questions adopting data collection techniques and analysing and interpreting data. <br><br><b>Key features of this book include:</b><br>• Five Reasons Why You Need a Feminist Companion – a helpful guide to what readers can expect to gain from this book <br>• Activity boxes suggesting ways you can put the theory you are learning into practice   <br>• See and Hear for Yourself boxes signposting readers to where they can find real-world examples of the concepts covered<br>• Summary sections that articulate the main points of each chapter and provide a useful revision aid<br>• A glossary of key terms<br><br>The book maps to the British Psychological Society (BPS) curriculum on research methods as well as the Quality Assessment Agency’s (QAA) Subject Benchmark Statement for Psychology. <br><br><b>Hannah Frith</b> is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Surrey UK. She is the current editor the British Psychological Society journal Psychology of Women and Equalities Review.<br><br><b>Rose Capdevila</b> is Professor of Psychology at The Open University. She has been co-editor the journal Feminism & Psychology and Chair of the Psychology of Women and Equalities section of the BPS.<br>