Pioneering Social Research combines the fascinating history of generations who built outstanding and influential social research with providing a major resource for current research and — especially for methods — for future teaching.

Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. 

It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who who were the first to confront the issues of race and ethnicity and who helped develop a new world of research methodology and pioneered feminist research.

It combines the fascinating history of the generations who built outstanding and influential social research with providing a major resource for current research and – especially for methods – for future teaching.