Find an open-access guide to archival research and links to archives you can visit online.
Categories: Data Collection, Other, Research, Research Skills
Continue ReadingHow can you analyze online talk? Researchers demonstrate!
This interview was a show-and-tell about analyzing online talk.
Categories: Data Analysis, Online Research, Other
Continue ReadingWhat are “documents” and how can researchers use them?
Learn about four ways researchers use documents.
Categories: Data Collection, Other, Research
Continue ReadingWhat do researchers need to know about using datasets?
Open-access articles about research with datasets.
Categories: Big Data, Data Collection, Online Research, Other, Research, Research Design, Research Skills
Continue ReadingGetting Started with Archival Research
What is archival research, and why is it useful for social researchers?
Categories: Data Collection, Other, Research, Research Roles, Research Skills
Continue ReadingFinding Data in Documents and Datasets
Welcome to a new MethodSpace focus on documents and datasets.
Categories: Contemporary Issues, Data Collection, Online Research, Research, Research Design, Research Roles, Research Skills
Continue ReadingCollect Data from Participants
Find all the April 2021 posts about collecting data from participants.
Categories: Creative Methods, Cross-Cut and Collections, Data Collection, Online Research, Research, Research Design, Research Methods, Research Roles, Research Skills, Theory
Continue ReadingSAGE Concept Grants: Advice for applicants
Have a research software idea? Thinking about applying for a Concept Grant? Learn more.
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Continue ReadingGather Your Data Online: New SAGE Campus Course
From Book to Course I wrote a short but substantive book called Gather Your Data Online. It offers an introduction to multiple types of online data collection, and key steps necessary necessary for designing ethical, do-able studies. When SAGE invited me to make the book into a course, I had the opportunity to bring Gather […]
Categories: Multimodal, Online Research, Other, Qualitative, Quantitative, Research, Research Design, Research Ethics, Research Roles, Research Skills
Continue ReadingCollecting Data with Interviews
Wondering about whether interviews are right for your study? Learn from Katy Wheeler and Bethany Morgan Brett!
Categories: Contemporary Issues, Data Collection, Other, Research, Research Design, Research Roles, Research Skills
Continue ReadingConducting Focus Groups
We will define our April focus broadly to include any qualitative or quantitative methods that involve questioning, prompting, or working with participants to collect or generate data. Find the unfolding series here. While we can ask individual participants questions or prompt them to discuss experiences in one-one interviews, focus groups allow us to hear what participants […]
Categories: Data Collection, Online Research, Research, Research Design, Research Roles
Continue ReadingParticipant Observation
Learn about participant observation and read open-access articles.
Categories: Action Research, Data Collection, Other, Research, Research Design, Research Roles
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