Methods Minute Newsletter March 2021

March Spotlight: Designing an Ethical Study This month’s issue of Methods Minute is packed with free content from across our SAGE products and community that will help students, faculty and researchers alike. Scroll down the whole email so you don’t miss out.

From MethodSpace and the SAGE community

Read the March series Research ethics is associated with the very foundations of research practice. From the premises and assumptions that precede the definition of the research problem, to the shape and form of publications, to the protection of participants seen or unseen, researchers face decisions that compel them to consider their own moral compass. This March, SAGE MethodSpace explored these questions in original posts, a webinar and video interviews, and more. Find the entire series through this link.

SAGE Concept Grants: Applications open 29th March We are offering funding of up to £15,000 ($20,000) for innovative software solutions that support the adoption, development and application of established and emerging research methods in the social sciences. Get ready – applications open next week! Find out more.

Free Webinar: Respecting and Responding to the needs of Communities of Color in the Research Space This webinar is part of the Culturally Responsive Research Webinar Series presented by NVivo and SAGE Publications. Presenter, Rasheeta Chandler (Assistant Professor at Emory University’s NHWSON) will give strategies on implementation of culturally responsive research for communities of color. Register for the webinar.

From SAGE Campus

Online course: Gather Your Data Online This brand new online course helps you find and use online data that is ethically sound and appropriate to your study. It will help you develop a sampling strategy to recruit suitable research participants and take appropriate steps to establish credibility, build trust, and verify consent.   Sign up to take the free module.

From SAGE Journals

Going Digital in Ethnography: Navigating the Ethical Tensions and Productive Possibilities This paper describes some of the ethical challenges and productive possibilities of going digital when engaged in ethnographic research. Drawing upon the theory of affordances, the author discusses the ongoing ethical debate around what counts as public versus private, as well as the closely related concerns regarding treating online data as texts versus that which is generated by human subjects. Read the article here for free until end of March.

Ethics for authors: A pre-peer review checklist This post lists ethics-related requirements for research articles, based on information from SAGE’s online journal resources, which are in turn based on the guidance and recommendations of organisations and committees such as COPE and the ICMJE. Read the blog post here.

From SAGE Books

Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World By Trena Paulus and Jessica Lester, this book provides a deep exploration of the relationship between theories of technology, substantive theories, and methodological theory, and shows how together these inform the development of a quality research design. Woven throughout is attention to ethical challenges that are likely to be faced by researchers when adopting digital tools. Request a review copy.

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