Dr. Stephen Gorard, author of How to Make Sense of Statistics, has a straightforward way of explaining complicated data analysis and statistical concepts. But have you seen him use card tricks to teach research methods? See this video to learn more!
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Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss how to make decisions about what qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods data to collect and how to do so. This post is the third of a three-part series of posts that feature ten author interviews.
Anna CohenMiller helps us drawing on the 4C's of research: Compassion, Community, Care and Collaboration into our research praxis to develop as individuals and researchers.
Doctoral student Sandra Flores discusses her research in Puerto Rico, and what she learned from the experience.
Sage Research Methods Community posts about mentors and mentoring
Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss how to make decisions about methodology in this collection of video interviews. This post is the second of a three-part series of posts that feature ten author interviews.
“Learning about networks, therefore, is to learn key intellectual and empirical skills for navigating through complexity – this descriptor that permeates the world of the 21st century.” Learn more in this guest post from Ion Georgiou.
In this guest post Jane Shore and Sarah Singer Quast remind us of the importance of bridging research and practice, and give specific recommendations.
How can you use data science in social science research? Find an interview with the Oxford Internet Institute’s Dr. Bernie Hogan and lots of useful resources in this post.
We need to think about research before we design and conduct it.
Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss the first three chapters in these video interviews:
Chapter 1 – Research Design: What You Need to Think About and Why
Chapter 2 – Ethical Issues in Research Design
Chapter 3 – Developing Your Research Questions
The editor of The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education, Safary Wa-Mbaleka, is joined by contributors in a lively roundtable about teaching and learning online.
Look candidly at your unfinished project. Is it a stepping stone, and completion will be allow you to move ahead? Or is it an obstacle that prevents you from moving forward? Find ideas to help you determine whether to revive that piece of writing or let it go.
Have a writing project that is languishing? Find practical tips for keeping it alive!
Methods Film Fest!
We can read what they write, but what do researchers say? What are they thinking about, what are they exploring, what insights do they share about methodologies, methods, and approaches? In 2023 Methodspace produced 32 videos, and you can find them all in this post!
How can we teach and learn research methods and academic writing skills using videos? Find 6 ways to use videos with students or to delve more deeply and build your own skills. Make sure to check out Methodspace videos freely available on YouTube.
Many questions were posed by attendees of the Sage webinar, Create a Research Agenda and Personal Academic Brand, with panelists Dr. Mark Carrigan and Dr. Jessica Sowa. Attendees posed many questions. This post is the first in a series - find responses to your questions and links to related resources.
Jessica Lester and Trena Paulus co-edited a December 2023 special issue for the Sage journal, Qualitative Inquiry, “Qualitative inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring methodological consequences of digital research workflows.” Read the articles and watch a roundtable with contributors. This is the second of two discussions of the special issue.
Jessica Lester and Trena Paulus co-edited a December 2023 special issue for the Sage journal, Qualitative Inquiry, “Qualitative inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring methodological consequences of digital research workflows.” Read the articles and watch a roundtable with contributors. This is the first of two discussions of the special issue.
Thinking about research careers and calling: finding the right fit.
Use research cases as the basis for individual or team activities that build skills.
Safary Wa-Mbaleka, Arceli Rosario, and Anna Cohen Miller discussed opportunities and challenges for global researchers and academic writers in this roundtable discussion.
Find an 10-step process for using research cases to teach methods with learning activities for individual students, teams, or small groups. (Or use the approach yourself!)
Dr. Linda Bloomberg offers four presentations about qualitative research approaches at each stage of the process.
Dr. Linda Bloomberg offers detailed suggestions for getting organized and starting a dissertation or thesis.
In 2023 academic writers have more than the usual number of issues to contend with, so we will tackle writing, presenting, and disseminating research for three months! From October through December, find posts, interviews, curated collections of open-access resources, and webinars!
Instructional tips for teaching quantitative data analysis.
Tips on grading and marking to make it relevant and useful for students’ future research.
Tips on assessing a course to make it relevant and useful for students’ future research.
Have you seen Dr. Gorard use card tricks to teach research methods? Watch this video!
This year we need to honor Martin Luther King's legacy with both reflection and action! In this post, find links to lots of original source materials, including documents and recordings.