Learn about connecting the unit of analysis with the qualitative methodology.

Find suggestions for navigating the problem formulation stage that precedes research design in social science research.

Let’s begin this quarter’s exploration of research design by thinking about the research problem or topic. Who decides what to study?

What ethical research practices are needed in a time-pressured crisis - such as the pandemic we have so recently experienced? These are questions the PREPARED team is tackling. Watch the livestream of the recent meeting in Paris.

The goals for this collaborative feminist research project were to bring together scholars who had critical methodological lenses, focusing our study through a collaborative feminist methodological lens to explore and address gender-based inequities in higher education institutions. Find the open-access book and toolkit the co-authors created.

Find a collection of Sage books about ethnographic methods.

In this interview David Antons and Oliver Salge discuss the roles humans and machines can take to plan and conduct computational literature reviews.

In this interview Dr. Marc Anderson explains how and why to use citation context analysis to track impact of scholarly publications over time.

Ethnography is a widely used qualitative methodology, growing from roots in anthropology to acceptance in a wide range of disciplines.

For researchers interested in incorporating equity into their work, it all starts at the very beginning with designing the study. Learn more in this guest post!

In this Sage Methodspace webinar Dr. Matti Nelimarkka and Dr. Friedolin Merhout discuss strategies for engaging with students and building the skills needed to design, plan, and conduct studies using computational social science methods

How do you decide which methodology fits your study? In this dialogue Linda Bloomberg and Janet Boberg explain the importance of a strategic approach to qualitative research design that stresses alignment with the purpose of the study.

Dr. Brian Fox explains why systematicity is important in literature reviews.

In the article “Theorizing Through Literature Reviews: The Miner-Prospector Continuum” Dermot Breslin and Caroline Gatrell pose an intriguing question: do you approach the literature review as a miner or as a prospector? They discuss options in an interview.

What are narrative methods? In this post find a description, and a collection of books and open-access exemplars that use qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches.

How do decide what literature you need for a review? See this post featuring an interview Martin Hiebl and related open-access article about sample selection.

Garima Sharma and Pratima (Tima) Bansal discuss ways to engage with managers, professionals, or practitioners to learn from the literature using a systematic review process.

Learn about Sage books about designing, conducting, and analyzing data for action research and other participatory methods across multiple disciplines. You will find open-access preview chapters and a discount code.

In this interview Dr. Herman Aguinis and Dr. Ravi Ramani discuss the article they wrote with Dr. Nawaf Alabduljader, “Best-Practice Recommendations for Producers, Evaluators, and Users of Methodological Literature Reviews.”

Find tips for organizing and synthesizing methodological sources for your literature review.