Tools and Resources

NatCen Social Research, SAGE and the Oxford Internet Institute are bringing together cutting-edge thinkers from academia, market research and applied social research in an NCRM-funded network to explore whether we should embrace social media, and, if we do, what this means for our methods and practice.

Coaching psychology research methods group.

Based on the feedback from 3000 academics around the world, we created 21 questions that help you design and defend your research in any field of knowledge. These questions are innovative because they integrate theory, method, and data for design, as well as rhetoric and authorship for defense. The Idea Puzzle® software asks you the 21 questions, helps you answer them, and allows you to evaluate your answers. Your results are presented with a score and a visual map (example).

This group has been formed to discuss the many real issues with balancing a full-time job and studying part-time for a doctorate. Concentrating on one of these is stressful in itself, but the healthy balance for both in one's life can be traumatic.

Discussion of Issues related to Focus Groups with Blog by David Morgan

EFL teachers have a wide number of problems to make their learners master English. We face a great many of obstacles namely errors at all language levels(listening, speaking,reading,writing,vocabulary, grammar,pronunciation),cognitive and affective

This group hopes to facilitate discussions on INFORMATION LITERACY among postgraduate researchers. It aims to provide spaces for the development of Information Literacy researches and support each others' research needs in this a global network.

This group is formed for discussing the interdisciplinary cross-currents in humanities.

Albertha Haryudant, S.Sn., M.A Akhli Keramik Raku Research Kria Keramik Indonesia

San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science course on action research

Welcome to the Methodspace group for Mike Lambert’s SAGE book: 'A Beginner’s Guide to Doing Your Education Research Project'.  By joining this group you can engage in discussion about doing research as a beginner, access the book’s Project Sheets in electronic format and give feedback on the book itself.  'A Beginner’s Guide' will be published in September: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book236033.    

The forum intends to be a place to raise discussion on different methodological approaches in setting a research agenda or prioritisation of research.

All those interested in the field education can join this group

50 percent of all serious and violent crimes in North America are committed by psychopaths, yet they only account for less than one percent of the world’s population.

This Topic is designed to assist researchers to facilitate the whole process of academic research and all its related activities. “Research Tools” help researchers collect, organize, analyze, visualize, mobilize and disseminate research output.

For information on the cases themselves, or how to submit, please CLICK HERE! This group is for anyone who is interested in the SAGE Research Methods Cases collection.  How would you use the collection to learn about research methods? How would you teach research methods using cases? Do you have feedback on the site? Are you interested in writing a case? Anything and everything related to SAGE Research Methods Cases!

A group on the importance of Research Design

These are some tools that kids and students may use for their research.

Discuss everything about Virtual Teams and its application in New Product Development, R&D and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) .

For researchers interested in/conducting work on issues pertaining to women and women's health