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Categories: Focus Series, Instruction, MethodSpace Live!, Other, Research, Research Ethics
Continue ReadingFind the webinar recording and related resources in this post.
Categories: Focus Series, Instruction, MethodSpace Live!, Other, Research, Research Ethics
Continue ReadingRead about Indigenous research in British Columbia and Peru about “regenerating traditional ecological knowledges.”
Categories: Focus Series, Other, Research Ethics
Continue ReadingAs part of our February focus on Indigenous and Intercultural Research, we are offering a series of articles from SAGE Journals. In this post, we feature the journal AlterNative.
Categories: Focus Series, Other, Research Design, Research Ethics
Continue ReadingMy hand trembled with nervousness and anticipation. It was the start of my student research project. My supervisor had talked me through how “by doing X we will learn more about Y” and I was excited to get started.
A decade later when I talk to my own students I sometimes catch myself using another way to frame our work: “if we do X, and it ‘works’, then perhaps we can get into prestigious journal Y”. This is poison for an inquiring mind…
Categories: Research Ethics, Research Roles, Research Skills
Continue ReadingResearch skills involve more than being about to design and conduct a study.
Categories: Focus Series, Impact, MentorSpace, Other, Research, Research Ethics, Research Roles, Research Skills, Supervising and Teaching Research Skills and Roles
Continue ReadingA commitment to integrity in all phases of research is essential to credibility for the field, as well as to the researcher.
Categories: Impact, Instruction, Research Ethics, Research Roles, Research Skills
Continue ReadingWhile some journals are most interesting to those within a discipline, the open access Research Ethics Journal is relevant to researchers across disciplines.
Categories: Other, Research, Research Ethics, Research Skills
Continue ReadingNovember is Academic Writing Month, fondly known as AcWriMo. The AcWriMo focus on MethodSpace is on writing and publishing books. The whole series can be found through this link. We’re pleased to have special guest posts this month from Dr. Helen Kara. You might remember Helen from previous contributions to MethodSpace, including presenting in the Get Creative! Research with […]
Categories: Focus Series, Research Ethics
Continue ReadingThis post from February fits with the discussion about research ethics. Cases are an excellent way to stimulate discussion about ethical questions!
Categories: Data Collection, Focus Series, Instruction, Other, Qualitative, Research Ethics, Research Skills, Supervising and Teaching Research Skills and Roles, Teaching, Tools and Resources
Continue ReadingAs current or potential mentor, how can you build on your strengths in research ethics? See resources that can help!
Categories: Focus Series, Other, Research, Research Ethics, Research Skills, Supervising and Teaching Research Skills and Roles, Tools and Resources
Continue ReadingIndependent researcher Dr. Helen Kara recently completed an important new book: Research Ethics in the Real World. She also co-edited a special issue on “New Directions in Qualitative Research Ethics” for the March 2017 International Journal of Social Research Methodology. She generously agreed to share this collection of open access ethics resources with Methodspace readers. You […]
Categories: Research, Research Ethics, Teaching, Tools and Resources
Continue ReadingI swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement, this oath and this indenture. Could this be the first line of a “Hippocratic Oath” for mathematicians and data scientists? […]
Categories: Big Data, Research Ethics
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