Researchers can easily access user-generated public videos. See this multidisciplinary collection of open access articles about quantitative and qualitative approaches to collecting and analyzing videos from YouTube or TikTok.

Let’s use this open-access research case to think through the possibilities and potential problems involved with studying blog posts and online discussions.

From the moment social media platforms began to welcome user-generated content, researchers have looked for ways to study it. Learn more with open-access articles about social media platforms.

Do you think about research questions as an insider, outsider, or somewhere in between? Why is positionality important in online research?

Doctoral student Sandra Flores discusses her research in Puerto Rico, and what she learned from the experience.

Learn about action and participatory research methods, and ways to design and carry out research with, not on, communities.

Is it too hard to address problems in our complex world with one type of data? Mixed methods might be the answer. Find explanations and open-access resources in this post.

The process for researching literature on research methods is somewhat different from the process used for researching literature about the topic, problem, or questions. What should we keep in mind when selecting methods literature?

How do researchers make design decisions about the methodology and methods?

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

Read this collection of multidisciplinary articles to explore epistemological questions in Indigenous research.

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

This post includes tips about writing qualitative proposals excerpted from Research Design by Creswell and Creswell.

Find a collection of open-access articles about ways to apply critical and creative thinking in your research.

What does it mean to be central to your research? In this post we are defining a method that asks researchers to be at the center of their studies, and looking for explanations and examples of autobiography.

View the webinar and find a multidisciplinary collection of posts and videos from Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, Rosalind Beadle, Ernie Stringer and their colleagues.

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.

Decolonisation is not a peripheral but central concern to social research for change. Learn more from Caroline Lenette, author of Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization.

Critical appraisal of research papers is a component of everyday academic life, whether as a student as part of an assignment, as a researcher as part of a literature review or as a teacher preparing a lecture. Learn more from this post.

Missed the Methodspace webinar “Analyzing Published Literature Across Paradigms and Disciplines”? View it here and find related resources.