The November webinar, Write a Book! From Acquisition to Publication will feature SAGE editors and experts. They will explain how each step of the process works and discuss best practices for authors. Registration is open now!
Categories: ACWRIMO, Books, Careers, Focus Series, Getting published, Professional Books, Research, Research Skills, Webinar, Writing
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More questions were posted than we had time to answer during the during the Nurturing the Researchers of Tomorrow webinar. This is the first of a series of posts in response. Q. I understand that Nicola Pallit’s work was based on postgraduate research. I feel like undergraduate research has been neglected. After all, they will […]
Categories: Focus Series, MethodSpace Live!, Research Skills, Teaching, Uncategorised
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Dr. Roulston is the author of Reflective Interviewing: A Guide to Theory and Practice, and blogs at Qual Page. When I saw her resources about teaching methods, I reached out to her and asked for an interview. I am happy to introduce her work to MethodSpace readers!
Categories: Blogs, Focus Series, Research, Research Skills, Teaching, Uncategorised
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Find the recording link, slides, and related resources for the webinar, Nurturing the Researchers of Tomorrow.
Categories: Focus Series, MethodSpace Live!, Research Skills, Supervising research, Teaching, Tools and Resources, Uncategorised
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One principle is common across all methodologies and methods: research is about asking questions. We conduct research to find and test solutions to problems. A researcher’s mindset is not set, instead it is open to new insights– or to being proven wrong. How do we teach in ways that help our students learn how to approach problems with open minds, and to craft and conduct research?
Categories: Focus Series, MethodSpace Live!, Research, Students, Teaching, Tools and Resources, Uncategorised
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Sometimes it is useful to step away from the to-do list and everyday details and look at the proverbial big picture.
Categories: Focus Series, Research, Research Skills, Supervising research, Teaching, Uncategorised
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The term “big data” may bring to mind swaths of private information held by tech companies. But lots of big data is, in fact, visible to all – we just may not think of it as “data.” If you’ve been to the movies recently, you will have seen a dataset of credits – listing the […]
Categories: Big Data
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Get Ready. Sharpen your pencils, fill your pens with ink, shake the cookie crumbs out of your keyboard, Academic Writing Month is coming in November! For AcWriMo this year, MethodSpace will focus on writing and publishing books. In addition to original posts, curated resources, and interviews, we’re hosting a webinar. Write a Book! From Acquisition […]
Categories: ACWRIMO, Focus Series, Research, Tools and Resources, Tweetchat, Uncategorised, Webinar, Writing
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I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement, this oath and this indenture. Could this be the first line of a “Hippocratic Oath” for mathematicians and data scientists? […]
Categories: Big Data, Editorial, Ethics
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Pointing students or mentees to articles that describe or exemplify research methods is part of the role we take as methods faculty or dissertation/thesis supervisors. Open access journals are useful when you don’t have a robust academic library. Here are some SAGE journals you can tap for readings, with a recent article from each.
Categories: Open Access, Research, Students, Supervising research, Teaching, Tools and Resources
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