Research: Advanced: Kinesiology

Introducing qualitative inquiry -- Dissecting a qualitative research study -- Conceptualizing your study -- Collecting and analyzing qualitative data -- Ensuring trustworthiness of data -- Attending to ethical issues -- Assembling your research plan -- Writing your results and discussing your findings -- Understanding forms of qualitative research -- Being a good consumer of qualitative research -- Looking back and moving forward.

What is research? -- The research process -- Research traditions -- Research questions, aims and objectives -- Reviewing the literature -- Theories, concepts and variables -- Research designs for sports studies -- Collecting data I : the questionnaire survey -- Collecting data II : research interviews -- Collecting data III : unobtrusive methods : observation and content analysis -- Collecting data IV : ethnographic research in sport -- Analysing data I : quantitative data analysis -- Analysing data II : qualitative data analysis -- Writing the research report -- Practical issues.

Planar kinematics / D. Gordon E. Robertson and Graham E. Caldwell -- Three-dimensional kinematics / Joseph Hamill, W. Scott Selbie, and Thomas M. Kepple -- Body segment parameters / D. Gordon E. Robertson -- Forces and their measurement / Graham E. Caldwell, D. Gordon E. Robertson, and Saunders N. Whittlesey -- Two-dimensional inverse dynamics / Saunders N. Whittlesey and D. Gordon E. Robertson -- Energy, work, and power / D. Gordon E. Robertson -- Three-dimensional kinetics / W. Scott Selbie, Joseph Hamill, and Thomas Kepple -- Electromyographic kinesiology / Gary Kamen -- Muscle modeling / Graham E. Caldwell -- Computer simulation of human movement / S.N. Whittlesey and J. Hamill -- Musculoskeletal modeling / Brian R. Umberger and Graham E. Caldwell -- Signal processing / Timothy R. Derrick and D. Gordon E. Robertson -- Dynamical systems analysis of coordination / Richard E.A. Van Emmerik, Ross H. Miller, and Joseph Hamill -- Analysis of biomechanical waveform data / Kevin J. Deluzio, Andrew J. Harrison, Norma Coffey, and Graham E. Caldwell

It is essential reading for any undergraduate student conducting a research project or taking applied research modules in physical activity and health, graduate students of epidemiology, public health, exercise psychology or exercise physiology with a physical activity and health focus, or practicing researchers in the area.