Elaine is a principal lecturer and the leader of programmes for the International Centre for Coaching and Leadership Development at Oxford Brookes University in the UK, where she also directs the Doctor of Coaching and Mentoring Programme and supervises doctoral students. She is an experienced researcher, author and editor and has recently co-edited the bestselling book, The Complete Handbook of Coaching, 2nd edition. Her other books with SAGE include Coaching Understood (2013) and she is also the founding editor of The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring.

The authors skillfully break down and map the various paradigms and their associated ontological and epistemological positions. They address the complexities of seemingly conflicting or overlapping concepts, principles and terminology and present this in a logical, coherent manner mapped using comparison tables.

• Part I – Introduction to coaching researchChapter 1 – IntroductionChapter 2 – Theoretical foundations of research - Peter JacksonChapter 3 – Designing your research project - Elaine CoxPart II – Research strategiesChapter 4 – Grounded theory - Teresa Carmichael and Natalie CunninghamChapter 5 – Phenomenological approaches - Tatiana Bachkirova, Alison Rose and Roger NoonChapter 6 – Autoethnography - Juliette Koning and Liam MooreChapter 7 – Quantitative and statistical approaches - Christine Davies and Annette Fillery-TravisChapter 8 – Case study research - Andrea D. Ellinger and Rochell R. McWhorterChapter 9 – Action research - Elaine Cox, Hany Shoukry and Janice CookPart III – The impact of researchChapter 10 – The experience of research - Elaine Cox and Peter JacksonChapter 11 – The dissemination and implementation of research-based coaching knowledge - Peter Jackson and Elaine Cox