![]() Research Areas The Centre is home to an international team of multidisciplinary researchers committed to conducting first-rate sustainability related research through the use of innovative techniques, methods, resources and technology. Key to our success is our expertise within key multidisciplinary research areas that are founded on harmonising with the global effort for a more just, sustainable world. Among our research areas we promote a scientific dialogue to maximise expertise and output findings. Our research often requires an acute understanding of societal changes from both human and non-human perspectives. It is our developments in these areas that help us to apply unique solutions for fields as diverse as the social sciences, engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences and humanities. Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches The Centre’s research is based within two interdisciplinary methodological approaches: qualitative and quantitative. The combinative use of the two has been a long goal of the Centre with attempted sustainability research that explores control and systematisation of the biases of such an idea. The Centre’s expertise in both approaches is specialised in a vast array of multidisciplinary research areas, including: sustainable development functionality measures, environmental management and impact, geographic assaying and systems approach and society studies. The difference between qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches has been well documented since Patton (1990) and Chisnall (2001) illustrated the table on the right; from an interdisciplinary standpoint, we strive to add to this knowledge base.
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SUSTAINABILITY HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIETAL STUDIES INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION DIFFERENCES BETWEEN QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES
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References
Chisnall, P. (2001). Market research, Berkshire: McGraw Hill.
Patton, M.Q. (1990). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (2nd Ed.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Chisnall, P. (2001). Market research, Berkshire: McGraw Hill.
Patton, M.Q. (1990). Qualitative evaluation and research methods (2nd Ed.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage.