Are you interested in learning new ways to teach research methods and improve the ways you mentor and guide researchers? If so, you’ll want to join us for the next MethodSpace Live webinar!
Categories: Focus Series, MethodSpace Live!, Social Issues, Students, Supervising research, Teaching
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The use of mobile applications for data collection is becoming increasingly common in the social sciences. There are many examples of their use, such as mapping where people feel happy, Mappiness app, or where people feel unsafe, like the Fear of Crime Application and iExperience app. These tools allow social scientists to tap into people’s experiences as and when they […]
Categories: Tools and Resources
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Help your students develop research skills, even when you are not teaching research classes.
Categories: Focus Series, Research, Students, Teaching, Uncategorised
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The opioid crisis has dominated the U.S. news cycle for the past decade and in 2017 there were c. 50,000 opioid related deaths with no sign that the number of death will begin to decrease any time soon. Here Diana Almen helps interpret the data.
Categories: Big Data, Social Issues, Teaching
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If you saw the Research with Pictures & Stories webinar, you were probably intrigued by Dr. Melissa Nolas ethnographic research with children. A new grant will expand the online archive of children’s photos.
Categories: Creative Methods, Focus Series, Multimodal, Photovoice, Qualitative, Visuals
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Simple but powerful, bar graphs are one of the most common charts used to compare categorical data, which are data that can be grouped into categories like race and sex. Here Diana gives some tips for making the perfect Bar graph.
Categories: Big Data, Data Analysis
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Instead of trying to explain the mystifying mathematics behind how algorithms work, this researcher started looking at how they actually ‘see’ the world we live in.
Categories: Teaching, Tools and Resources
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Meet the panelists for the September webinar, “Nurturing the Researchers of Tomorrow.”
Categories: Focus Series, MethodSpace Live!, Research Skills, Students, Supervising research, Teaching, Uncategorised
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The MethodSpace focus for August is on teaching research methods. We will follow on in September, with a focus on mentoring, supervising, and guiding researchers. You can find the whole series here, including information about the September 12 webinar,”Nurturing the Researchers of Tomorrow.” Research methods are hard to learn, and a challenge to teach. The […]
Categories: Focus Series, Research, Students, Supervising research, Teaching, Tools and Resources, Uncategorised
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In June and July we explored creative methods through a webinar and a series of posts. We looked at uses of visual, aural, multimedia and other digital examples of practices researchers can use in all stages of research, from design to dissemination. You can find all posts, including the Research with Pictures & Stories webinar […]
Categories: Creative Methods, Focus Series, MethodSpace Live!, Multimodal, Research, Teaching, Uncategorised, Visuals
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