Selected Contents: Introduction Part 1: First principles 1. Action research: what it is and what it is not 2. Why should you do action research? 3. The main features of action research processes Part 2: Planning your project 4. Working with others in organisational and institutional settings 5. Influence and ethics Part 3: Designing your project 6. Designing your project: action planning 7. Designing your project: checklists for action Part 4: Doing your project 8. Monitoring the action, looking for data, and documenting the processes involved 9. Collecting and managing the data 10. Analysing and interpreting the data and generating evidence Part 5: Making claims to knowledge and validating them 11. Validation process: making claims to knowledge and validating them 12. Legitimation processes: presenting reports and legitimating them Part 6: Disseminating your knowledge 13. Writing your report 14. Disseminating your research and getting published References