Introduction to advanced research methods for applied psychologists -- Section 1 Getting started: Designing impactful research -- Research sampling: a pragmatic approach -- Research ethics for human research and legal issues -- Instrumentation -- Section 2 Data collection: Systematic reviews -- Research using archival data -- Overview of qualitative methods -- Interviews, focus groups, and Delphi techniques -- Experimental and quasi-experimental designs: verities & Balderdash: designating designs to discern the difference -- Surveys and web research -- Assessing cognitive processes -- Longitudinal data collection -- Diary studies, event sampling, and smartphone apps -- Organisational interventions -- Section 3 The nitty gritty: data analysis: Managing missing data: concepts, theories, and methods -- Data preparation -- Content analysis and thematic analysis -- 'Real' analyses -- Mediation analysis and conditional process models -- Structural equation modelling -- Multilevel analyses -- Social network analysis -- Section 4 Research dissemination -- Publishing your research -- Producing an academic thesis and an organisational report -- Index.