From Q2 to Q3: Data Collection to Data Analysis

In 2023 we are walking through the research process on Methodspace with original posts, links to related Sage books and articles, video and written interviews, and webinars. We started with an exploration of ways to identify problems and design studies, then shifted in Q2 to a focus on ways to collect data. In addition to posts on each quarter’s focus, you’ll find featured content on relevant topics related to research, methods instruction, and academic writing.

Throughout the year we are looking at social science research through the lens of overarching questions:

• Who decides what problems merit study, with what participants or sources, using what methods, disseminated to what audiences?

• What do “academic freedom” and “intellectual freedom” mean for scholars and writers, professors and students?

By reflecting on these questions we can find ways to engage with stakeholders and situate our studies in real-world dilemmas.

At this point we shift from our Q2 focus on collecting data to the Q3 focus on analyzing and interpreting data. First, take note of the multidisciplinary Q2 posts and check out any you’ve missed! If you want to order any of the books highlighted this quarter, use the code MSPACEQ323 for a 20% discount on a purchase of the book, through September 2023.

Q2: Data Collection Types and Topics:

Introduction: Collect Data

Collect Qualitative Data:

• Books about Ethnography

• Collaborative Autoethnography and Duoethnography

• Collaborative feminist research methods in practice

• Conducting Focus Groups

• Generating Data with Autoethnography

• Online Interviewing Tips & Resources

• Participant Observation

• Participatory Action Research as a Tool for Decolonising Research

• Social Research with Qualitative Methods: New Titles from Sage

• Unstructured Interviews – A Conversational Iceberg

• When you are the researcher and the participant with autoethnography

Collect Quantitative Data:

• Collecting Data with Online Surveys

• Data Science for Public Good

• Social Research with Statistics: New Titles from Sage

Collect a Mix of Data:

• Analyzing Published Literature Across Paradigms

• Citation Context Analysis

• Collecting Qualitative and Quantitative Data

• Online Experiments

• Using Secondary Data in Mixed Methods is More Straight-Forward Than You Think

Research Ethics

• LGBTQ+ Research: Ethics, Methods, and Experiences in the Field

• Methods in Action: The Ethics of Studying Online Comments

• Modern-Day Data Collection: Entering the Post-Pandemic Era

Featured Posts (any paradigm):

• Collecting Data in Remote or Rural Communities

• Collecting Data with Apps

• Collecting Data with Games

• Design Thinking and Research

• Positionality and Data Collection

• Recruiting Hard-to-Reach or Vulnerable Participants

• Respondent Driven Sampling

• Sampling: An Overview

• Studying LGBT+ Lived Experiences

• Swahili Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis

• Using an Equity Lens in Measurement and Data Collection

• What does it mean to “decolonize” research?

Teaching and Guiding Researchers

• Action research for student teachers … not as neat a tidy as we might hope

• Creating a Culture of Inquiry in the Classroom

• Teach Methods for Qualitative Data Collection

• Teach Methods for Quantitative Data Collection

• Using Inquiry Models to Learn How to Ask Questions

Research Roundtables:

• Conducting Mixed Methods Research

• Let’s Discuss Intellectual and Academic Freedom

Webinars:

• Analyzing published literature across paradigms and disciplines

• Engaging with stakeholders: What can we learn from action researchers?

• PREPARED meeting panel at UNESCO, Paris

Features on special journal issues:

• Organizational Research Methods: Review Methods

  • Citation Context Analysis

  • Computational Literature Reviews

  • Designing Literature Reviews as a Research Project

  • Learn about Methodological Literature Reviews

  • Literature Review or State of the Science Review?

  • Sample Selection in Systematic Literature Reviews

  • The Why and How of the Integrative Review

  • The importance of critical appraisal

  • Three Benefits of a Literature Review

  • Types of Inquiry with Review Research
    

• Qualitative Inquiry: Higher Education in the Time of Trump and Beyond

  • Intellectual freedom and higher education: Critique and resistance

  • Let’s Discuss Intellectual and Academic Freedom

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