My books
Offender Rehabilitation Programmes: The Role of the Prison Officer (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice)
Laura M. Small and Paul M.W. Hackett (2023) Routledge
This book shows how prison officers may be able to significantly influence extra-programmatic conditions, to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and contribute to reducing reoffending. It does so through a detailed review of the literature relating to prison-based rehabilitation programmes, examining factors influencing their outcomes and the effects of the prison officer role.
Firstly the book explores current understandings about the role of the prison and effective offender rehabilitation programmes. It then describes the processes of the integrative review of how prison officers can support rehabilitation programmes in prisons. Review findings suggest three main routes by which prison officers can contribute to enhancing rehabilitation outcomes: influencing prison social environments, enhancing prisoner treatment readiness and programme engagement and identifying and supporting prisoners’ wider needs. This book also explores avenues for further research in this area using a declarative sentence mapping approach.
Bridging two previously distinct areas of research - prison officers and their role; and prison rehabilitation interventions – this book offers new understanding in the real-world context of prisons and their staff as to how we can enhance rehabilitation outcomes. It will be of great interest to academics in penology, forensic psychology, probation, and offender rehabilitation fields. The book is also valuable to postgraduate students and professionals working on prison policy.
Projective Techniques and Sort-Based Research Methods
Paul M.W. Hackett, James M. Suvak, and Ava Gordley-Smith, (2023) Routledge
Projective Techniques and Sort-Based Research Methods offers a brief introductory guide to the use of these exciting, innovative and often artistic approaches, to students and researchers who have no prior knowledge of these.
This book brings together a wide range of examples of projective and mapping techniques that offer the ideal methodology for researchers wishing to collect less controlled and filtered material, that tap the deeper levels of the conscious and sub-conscious to reveal a more profound, richer and hidden level of response. It presents the techniques in a way that will enable the reader to appreciate their nature and to choose an appropriate method for their own research. Information is also provided that allows readers to design and implement their own projective or sort-based approaches. Each of the approaches the authors present are concisely described, and their usages explained, along with references and examples of the applied usage of the technique.
The book is valuable reading for researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines from within the social sciences, humanities, business studies, marketing, etc. The book is an introductory guide, but it will be appropriate for use with undergraduate, post-graduate and research students. It will also be of great use to professionals working in the areas of consumer behaviour, marketing and communications.
Using Declarative Mapping Sentences in Psychological Research: Applying Facet Theory in Multi-Componential Critical Analyses of Female Representation in Science Fiction Film and Television,
Paul M.W. Hackett, and Chenwei Li (2022) Routledge
Using facet theory and Hackett’s pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction.
Using a comparative approach to the development of female roles in Western science fiction films and television, the authors illustrate how the DMS is formulated and used to analyse the psychological and behavioral profiles of female characters. By maintaining the common structure of the DMS across films while adapting its content for each female role, the text demonstrates the flexibility of the DMS in providing a structure for varied research domains, enabling results to be uniformly compared, contrasted and classified.
This insightful and thought-provoking volume will appeal to researchers, academics and educators interested in psychological methods and statistics, qualitative research in gender identity, and research methods more generally. Those especially interested in behavioural psychology, gender and cinema, and science fiction will also benefit from this volume.
Rehabilitation in Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives
Christopher, M. Hayre., Dave J. Muller., Hackett, Paul M.W. (eds.) (2022) Springer
This book focuses on developing the use of ethnographic research for rehabilitation practitioners by recognizing its value methodologically and empirically in the field of rehabilitation. The very nature of ethnographic research offers an array of opportunities for researchers to understand the social world around them. The book identifies the multifaceted use of ethnographic methods in the rehabilitation setting. It touches on how acute and chronic conditions can affect the nature of ethnographic work in attempts to offer originality in a range of rehabilitation settings. Readers will find this collection of examples useful for informing their own research, and it aims to enlighten new discussion and arguments regarding both methodological and empirical use of ethnographic work internationally.
An Introduction to Using Mapping Sentence
Paul M.W. Hackett, and Katelyn Lustig. (2021) Palgrave
This book acts as an introductory guide to understanding and using the mapping sentence as a tool in social science and humanities research. The book fills the need for a concise text that simply instructs how and when to use a mapping sentence and provides practical examples. Mapping sentences are a major research component and tool of facet theory. The book begins by covering the background to mapping sentence, including the philosophy and theory underpinning it. The following chapter discuss what mapping sentence is, what different kinds of mapping sentences exist, and knowing when and which to use it in a given situation. The book then moves into describing how to write a mapping sentence and how to analyse the information gained from mapping sentence research. It ends with a consideration of the future developments of mapping sentences and their applications across the social sciences and humanities, including in particular psychology, marketing, behavioural biology, art and health.
Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Declarative Applications, (second, revised and enlarged edition)
Paul M.W. Hackett (2021) Palgrave
This book is the second edition of Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application (2014). It consolidates the qualitative and quantitative research positions of facet theory and delves deeper into their qualitative application in psychology, social and the behavioural sciences and in the humanities. In their traditional quantitative guise, facet theory and its mapping sentence incorporate multi-dimensional statistics. They are also a way of thinking systematically and thoroughly about the world.
The book is particularly concerned with the development of the declarative mapping sentence as a tool and an approach to qualitative research. The evolution of the facet theory approach is presented along with many examples of its use in a wide variety of research domains. Since the first edition, the major advance in facet theory has been the formalization of the use of the declarative mapping sentence and this is given a prominent position in the new edition. The book will be compelling reading for students at all levels and for academics and research professionals from the humanities, social sciences and behavioural sciences.
Handbook of Ethnography in Healthcare Research,
Paul M.W. Hackett, and Christophet M. Hayre (eds.) (2020) Routledge
This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the chapters offer a holistic view of ethnography within medical contexts.
This edited volume is organized around major methodological themes, such as ethics, interviews, narrative analysis and mixed methods. Through the use of case studies, it illustrates how methodological considerations for ethnographic healthcare research are distinct from those in other fields. It has detailed content on the methodological facets of undertaking ethnography for prospective researchers to help them to conduct research in both an ethical and safe manner. It also highlights important issues such as the role of the researcher as the key research instrument, exploring how one’s social behaviours enable the researcher to ‘get closer’ to his/her participants and thus uncover original phenomena. Furthermore, it invites critical discussion of applied methodological strategies within the global academic community by pushing forward the use of ethnography to enhance the body of knowledge in the field.
The book offers an original guide for advanced students, prospective ethnographers, and healthcare professionals aiming to utilize this methodological approach.
The Philosophy of Facet Theory Pocket Guide
Lustig, Katelyn, and Paul M.W. Hackett (2020) Blurb
Facet theory is a philosophy about the nature of the world and how this should be investigated by disciplines within social sciences and humanities. It is also a series of research design and analysis procedures. In this pocket guide we present facet theory's philosophical basis and describe and illustrate how facet theory may be used within your own qualitative and quantitative research. Facet theory is concerned with revealing the complexity of research situations and there is inevitable intricacy in our presentation of the approach. However, unusual terminology is kept to a minimum and clearly explained. As such, the book is intended to be a concise guide to those with no knowledge of facet theory. The book is a complementary text to the Mapping Sentence Pocket Guide, by the same authors and provides more details to those interested in using mapping sentences in their research.
Declarative Mapping Sentences in Qualitative Research: Theoretical, Linguistic, and Applied Usages
Paul M.W. Hackett (2020) Routledge
In this book, Hackett introduces the traditional usage of the mapping sentence within quantitative research, reviews its philosophical underpinnings, and proposes the "declarative mapping sentence" as an instrument and approach to qualitative scholarship.
With a helpful glossary and a range of illustrative tables, Hackett takes the reader through a straightforward introduction to mapping sentences and their construction, before discussing declarative mapping sentences and possible future research directions. This innovative direction for social research provides a flexible structure for research domain, and it allows qualitative research results to be uniformly sorted.
Declarative Mapping Sentences in Qualitative Research will be essential reading for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of qualitative psychology and psychological methods, as well as philosophical psychology and social science research methods.
Mapping Sentence Pocket Guide
Katelyn Lustig Paul M.W. Hackett (2020) Blurb
The mapping sentence is a research tool and a way of conceiving of research into the social sciences and humanities. In this book, the mapping sentence is introduced in both its traditional and declarative formats for use in quantitative and qualitative research respectively. The reader is taken through the process of developing a mapping sentence for their specific research study in a clear and concise manner that assumes no knowledge of the approach.
International Student Mobility and Access to Higher Education (Marketing and Communication in Higher Education)
Or Shkoler, Edna Rabenu,Hackett, Paul M.W. Hackett, Paul M. Capobianco (2020) Palgrave
This book offers a comprehensive look into issues and trends driving international student mobility as the phenomenon becomes increasingly prevalent worldwide. Chapters first present an expanded definition of student mobility in the context of internationalization and go on to discuss the underlying motivations, issues, and challenges students face in attaining successful outcomes. The authors employ marketing concepts to illustrate ideas and recommendations for better attracting and integrating international students into academic institutions abroad with the goal of greater satisfaction for students and improved profitability for the universities they attend.
The Complexity of Bird Behaviour: A Facet Theory Approach
Paul M.W. Hackett (2019) Springer
This book presents the facet theoretical framework as a tool for facilitating the conception of complex animal behaviour research and the design of research procedures through employing mapping sentences. Using the facet theoretical framework, this book takes a holistic view of bird behaviour. Components of bird behavior are identified and then reassembled to facilitate an understanding of the behaviour in the context of its natural occurrence. This provides new insight on both the parts of the behaviour and how these interact as a whole. The multi-faceted approach to designing, evaluating and understanding bird behavior presented offers a template that is adaptable for investigating a wide variety of avian species and different forms of behaviour.
Behavioural biologists, animal and comparative psychologists, other natural and behavioural scientists, as well as students of these disciplines will find this book to be an interesting and enlightening read.
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Advances in Facet Theory Research: Developments in Theory and Application and Competing Approaches
Paul M.W. Hackett and Yael Fisher (eds.) (2019) Frontiers
The research presented in this ebook contributes to the body of facet theoretical research with particular emphasis upon how the approach has developed both theoretically and in terms of its application, new areas of application, and advances in theory development. Furthermore, other multi-variate approaches are employed in the social sciences and researchers who have used competing approa
Conceptual Categories and the Structure of Reality: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches
Paul M.W. Hackett (ed.) (2019) Frontiers
In this ebook the authors take on the presentation of current thinking in the area of categorically structured ways of understanding the world around us. While authors must ensure that papers fall within the scope of the section, as expressed in its mission statement, with a primary focus on psychology theory and content, they are encouraged to draw from the domains of metaphysics, facet theory, personal construct psychology and the broader areas of philosophy and psychology, where relevant, so as to enrich their papers. Psychologists use the term construct when describing the mental entities that we use to structure our understanding of the everyday world around us. Philosophers, on the other hand, use the term of ontological category to describe our most basic or fundamental mental structures. Psychologists may speak about construct networks or webs to epitomize the way in which constructs may inter-relate whilst metaphysicians may describe this as a mereology. In this Research Topic the questions that are addressed include a consideration of constructs and ontological categories as basic units of meaningful categorisation and construct networks and mereologies and their respective combinatorial existence.
Quantitative Research Methods in Consumer Psychology: Contemporary and Data Driven Approaches
Paul M.W. Hackett, (ed.) (2018) Routledge
Quantitative consumer research has long been the backbone of consumer psychology producing insights with peerless validity and reliability. This new book addresses a broad range of approaches to consumer psychology research along with developments in quantitative consumer research. Experts in their respective fields offer a perspective into this rapidly changing discipline of quantitative consumer research. The book focuses on new techniques as well as adaptations of traditional approaches and addresses ethics that relate to contemporary research approaches.
The text is appropriate for use with university students at all academic levels. Each chapter provides both a theoretical grounding in its topic area and offers applied examples of the use of the approach in consumer settings. Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter to test student learning. Topics covered are quantitative research techniques, measurement theory and psychological scaling, mapping sentences for planning and managing research, using qualitative research to elucidate quantitative research findings, big data and its visualization, extracting insights from online data, modeling the consumer, social media and digital market analysis, connectionist modeling of consumer choice, market sensing and marketing research, preparing data for analysis;, and ethics. The book may be used on its own as a textbook and may also be used as a supplementary text in quantitative research courses.
Mereologies, Ontologies and Facets: The Categorial Structure of Reality,
Paul M.W. Hackett (ed.) (2018) Lexington
Realities are structured categorically, and comprehension of our internal and external conditions do not appear to be global or unitary. Drawing upon many areas of life, the authors consider the ontological, mereological and multi-faceted structure of experience to explore how an understanding of categories can further knowledge.
The Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art
Paul M.W. Hackett (2017) Springer
This book deals with philosophical aspects regarding the perception of spatial relationships in two and three-dimensional art. It provides a structural understanding of how art is perceived within the space created by the artwork, and employs a mapping sentence and partial order mereology to model perceptual structure. It reviews the writing of philosophers such as Paul Crowther and art theorists such as Krauss to establish the need for this research. The ontological model established Paul Crowther is used to guide an interactive account of his ontology in the interpretations of the perceptual process of three-dimensional abstract art to allow the formulation of a more comprehensive philosophical account. The book uniquely combines structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to artistic perception and understanding with a conceptual structure from facet theory, which is clarified with the help of a mapping sentence and partial order mereology.
Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art: Neuro-aesthetics, Perception and Comprehension
Paul M.W. Hackett (2016) Palgrave
This book examines how we perceive and understand abstract art in contrast to artworks that represent reality. Philosophical, psychological and neuroscience research, including the work of philosopher Paul Crowther, are considered and out of these approaches a complex model is developed to account for this experience. The understanding embodied in this model is rooted in facet theory, mapping sentences and partially ordered analyses, which together provide a comprehensive understanding of the perceptual experience of abstract art.
Consumer Psychology: A Study Guide to Qualitative Research Methods
Paul M.W. Hackett, Jessica B. Schwarzenbach, Uta M. Jurgens (2016) Barbara Budrich
This book provides students with a clear and concise guide to studying undergraduate courses in qualitative consumer research and ethnography. The authors present the major qualitative research approaches used in consumer and marketing research as well as practical procedures and theoretical aspects of research design, report presentation etc. In addition to that a weekly study guide, including comprehensive reading lists, completes the book.
Qualitative Research Methods in Consumer Psychology: Ethnography and Culture
Paul M.W. Hackett (2015) Routledge
While consumer research is founded on traditional quantitative approaches, the insight produced through qualitative research methods within consumer settings has not gone unnoticed. The culturally situated consumer, who is in intimate dialogue with their physical, virtual and social surroundings, has become integral to understanding the psychology behind consumer choices. This volume presents readers with theoretical and applied approaches to using qualitative research methods in ethnographic studies looking at consumer behavior. It brings together an international group of leading scholars in the field of consumer research, with educational and professional backgrounds in marketing, advertising, business, education, therapy and health. Researchers, teaching faculty, and students in the field of consumer and social psychology will benefit from the applied examples of qualitative and ethnographic consumer research this volume presents.
Transatlantic Reflections on the Practice-Based Ph.D. in Fine Art
Jessica B. Schwarzenbach and Paul M.W. Hackett (2015) Routledge
Once the US was the only country in the world to offer a doctorate for studio artists, howeverthe PhD in fine art disappeared after pressures established the MFA as the terminal degree for visual artists. Subsequently, the PhD in fine art emerged in the UK and is now offered by approximately 40 universities. Today the doctorate is offered in most English-speaking nations, much of the EU, and countries such as China and Brazil.
Using historical, political, and social frameworks, this book investigates the evolution of the fine art doctorate in the UK, what the concept of a PhD means to practicing artists from the US, and why this degree disappeared in the US when it is so vigorously embraced in the UK and other countries. Data collected through in-depth interviews examine the perspectives of professional artists in the US who teach graduate level fine art. These interviews disclose conflicting attitudes toward this advanced degree and reveal the possibilities and challenges of developing a potential doctorate in studio art in the US.
Facet Theory and the Mapping Sentence: Evolving Philosophy, Use and Application
Paul M.W. Hackett (2014) Palgrave
How do we think about the worlds we live in? The formation of categories of events and objects seems to be a fundamental orientation procedure. Facet theory and its main tool, the mapping sentence, deal with categories of behavior and experience, their interrelationship, and their unification as our worldviews. In this book Hackett reviews philosophical writing along with neuroscientific research and information form other disciplines to provide a context for facet theory and the qualitative developments in this approach. With a variety of examples, the author proposes mapping sentences as a new way of understanding and defining complex behavior.
Fine Art and Perceptual Neuroscience: Field of Vision and the Painted Grid, Explorations in Cognitive Psychology Series
Paul M.W. Hackett (2013) Routledge
Over the past decade, the integration of psychology and fine art has sparked growing academic interest among researchers of these disciplines. The author, both a psychologist and artist, offers up a unique merger and perspective of these fields. Through the production of fine art, which is directly informed by neuroscientific and optical processes, this volume aims to fill a gap in the literature and understanding of the creation and perception of the grid image created as a work of art. The grid image is employed (for reasons discussed in the text) to illustrate more general processes associated with the integration of vision, visual distortion, and painting.
Existing at the intersection of perceptual neuroscience, psychology, fine art and art history, this volume concerns the act of painting and the process of looking. More specifically, the book examines vision and the effects of visual impairment and how these can be interpreted through painting within a theoretical framework of visual neuroscience.
Field of Vision
Paul M.W. Hackett (2009)
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Gridworks 2005
Paul M.W. Hackett (2006) Diggory Press
Conservation and the Consumer: Understanding Environmental Concern.
Paul M.W. Hackett (1995) Routledge
To some, environmental concern means using non-aerosol sprays, to others it means changing our basic energy resources. Both show concern but they reflect different levels of "green-ness". When analyzing consumer behaviour, these differing attitudes need to be taken into account before drawing conclusions about public response to environmental issues. Terms like "concern", "green" and "conservation", used when assessing consumer reactions or researching markets, are often loosely defined and so produce inaccurate data. The author surveys the rise of environmental concern and examines the ways to quantify it accurately.