Every summer, the Biocomplexity Institute’s Social and Decision Analytics Division’s Data Science for the Public Good (DSPG) Young Scholars program draws university students from around the country to work together on projects that use computational expertise to address critical social issues faced by local, regional, state or federal governments. The students conduct research at the intersection of […]
Categories: Data Analysis, Quantitative
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Learn more about mixed methods from the Mentor-in-Residence for May, Dr. Michael Fetters.
Categories: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Focus Series, Mixed, Other, Publishing, Research Skills
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Plan ahead! Register for the next MethodSpace Live webinar on Mixed Methods!
Categories: Data Analysis, Instruction, MentorSpace, Mixed, Multimodal, Research, Research Design, Research Skills, Tools and Resources, Webinars
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Mixed and multimethods research are our focus for May. Through original posts, written and video author interviews, open access articles and resources, and a webinar, we will explore ways to mix it up.
Categories: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Focus Series, Mixed, Multimodal, Other, Research Skills
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Initiated by Deborah Lupton, this crowdsourced document provides necessary information and key resources for researchers struggling to conduct traditional face-to-face research under new circumstances. Check out: “Doing Fieldwork In A Pandemic.”
Categories: Creative Methods, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Research
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The existence of a “gap” between management scholarship and management practice is taken for granted these days, so much so that what this gap actually signifies is often not attended to at all. Not only has it remained present to management scholars for more than fifty years, if the frequency with which academics have been writing about the gap is any indication, it is becoming more salient. How should we think about the “gap”?
Categories: Data Analysis, Impact, Research, Research Skills, Tools and Resources
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Transcribing can be a pain, and although recent progress in speech recognition software has helped, it remains a challenge. Speech recognition programs, do, however, raise ethical/consent issues: what if person-identifiable interview data is transcribed or read by someone who was not given the consent to do so? Furthermore, some conversational elements aren’t transcribed well by pattern recognition programs. What, or who, is really transforming the transcription process, then? What’s next for transcription?
Categories: Data Analysis, Data Collection, SAGE Posts
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Simple but powerful, bar graphs are one of the most common charts used to compare categorical data, which are data that can be grouped into categories like race and sex. Here Diana gives some tips for making the perfect Bar graph.
Categories: Big Data, Data Analysis
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We didn’t have time to answer in-depth questions during the Get Creative! Research with Pictures & Stories webinar. This post answers a question about data analysis.
Categories: Creative Methods, Data Analysis, Focus Series, MethodSpace Live!, Multimodal, Other, Qualitative
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Lots of thoughtful questions were posted during the Get Creative! Research with Pictures & Stories webinar. I will answer them in a series of posts.
Categories: Creative Methods, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Focus Series, Multimodal, Other, Presentation, Visuals, and Creativity, Webinars
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Qualitative Approaches to Policy Research in Education: Contesting the Evidence-Based, Neoliberal Regime (Kerrigan & Johnson, 2018) Abstract: This issue highlights problems with the neoliberal research regime in education policy—one that marginalizes, homogenizes, and dismisses communities, critical voices, and methodologies that could improve educational practice. We argue for greater methodological diversity in policy studies when engaging […]
Categories: Creative Methods, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Other, Qualitative
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JS. In the introduction to this special issue, you state: “These political and discursive interventions in education, however, are not solely to blame for the dismissal of qualitative inquiry. Some of this blame must be apportioned to researchers themselves.” Can you make suggestions for researchers who want to conduct qualitative or mixed methods research, but fear […]
Categories: Creative Methods, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Other, Qualitative
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