Learn about the MethodSpace focus on research and careers in June and July.
Categories: Focus Series, Other, Research Roles, Research Skills
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Questions about an Alt-Ac career? Ask the experts!
Author conversation about alternative academic careers.
Categories: Instruction, Research Roles, Research Skills, Tools and Resources
Continue ReadingMultimodal and Visual Methods: A Research Conversation
Multimodal qualitative research can make use of visual data beyond simple data visualization.
Categories: Creative Methods, Focus Series, Impact, Instruction, Multimodal, Other, Presentation, Visuals, and Creativity, Qualitative, Research Roles
Continue ReadingStructures, Positions & Tech Choices in Online Interviews
Answers to your questions about the researcher’s position vis a vis the study.
Categories: Other, Qualitative, Research Roles
Continue ReadingInterview with Dr. Bagale Chilisa, Part 3
Read part 3 of an interview with Dr. Bagale Chilisa about Indigenous methods.
Categories: Focus Series, MentorSpace, Other, Research Roles
Continue ReadingQ & A with Dr. Bagele Chilisa, Part 2
Read part 2 of an interview with Dr. Bagale Chilisa.
Categories: Focus Series, MentorSpace, Other, Research Roles
Continue ReadingDisseminating Research
Disseminating findings is an important role researchers play.
Categories: Dissemination, Other, Research, Research Roles
Continue ReadingScience is Shifting Toward Collaboration. So Why Don’t We Teach More Collaboration?
The way that science is done is changing. More and more, research is conducted in collaborative teams, pulling together scientists from a variety of areas of experience and geographic locations. This is particularly true in environmental sciences, where the types of complex, multifaceted issues faced by society can only be addressed by bringing together researchers with multiple perspectives. Across a wide range of fields, there is evidence that multi-authored research is more highly cited, suggesting that this shift in the culture of science is producing novel and exciting results…
Categories: Instruction, Research, Research Roles, Research Skills, Supervising and Teaching Research Skills and Roles, Teaching
Continue ReadingPeer Collaboration & Research
Research is not a solo operation. When thinking about researchers’ roles and related practices, it is hard to ignore the importance of collaboration. Yet collaborating with peers has its own challenges.
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Continue ReadingIs Novelty in Science a Distracting Obsession?
In a survey of over 1,500 scientists, more than 70 percent of them reported having been unable to reproduce other scientists’ findings at least once. Roughly half of the surveyed scientists ran into problems trying to reproduce their own results. No wonder people are talking about a “reproducibility crisis” in scientific research…
Categories: Impact, Research, Research Design, Research Roles
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