New set of social research, evaluation and inquiry for systems change international book editions
Yoland Wadsworth | Published on 5/14/2026
In 1984 Yoland Wadsworth's Do It Yourself Social Research, followed in 1991 by Everyday Evaluation on the Run became Australia's best-selling research and evaluation texts for more than two decades. They were followed in 2010 by Building in Research and Evaluation: Human Inquiry for Living Systems that described the conditions for using 'full cycle' inquiry processes to achieve whole systems change for public good. All three books have never been out of print.
They have now been revised as an anniversary box set trilogy of new editions to show in particular how a meta-epistemic approach to systemic research can explain at a deep theoretical level, the integrative logic of all the major forms of research and evaluation (and associated human inquiry capabilities) in a ‘new, new paradigm’ 'full cycle social science’.
The trilogy of books are available here:
https://www.routledge.com/Wadsworths-Social-Research-and-Evaluation-3-Volume-Set/Wadsworth/p/book/9781032501390