Join us for a Twitter Chat to discuss ways to use these videos in your teaching, mentoring, or coaching. On April 26, simply log into Twitter and look for #SAGEMethodsChat. No registration is needed. If you miss the chat, you can look for that hashtag and access the discussion. We will meet at 4 pm […]
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You can freely access a wide range of SAGE e-books, articles, case studies, videos and datasets during the SAGE Research Methods Open House. If your university library has SRM, you can use the series of Methodspace Open House posts to learn ways to navigate the site and use unique community features such as Methods Maps […]
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Ever thought about conducting a focus group? Wonder how to analyze data you collect? This month’s free method’s dataset from SAGE is: Analysing Focus Group Data: Higher Education Lecturers and Their Thoughts on Seminars. Use the SAGE Open House log in to access this Reading List with resources about all stages of the process. You […]
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“Bad questionnaire design is really the bane of my professional existence. It is immensely frustrating. It is something we see, unfortunately, a lot …” So starts Julia Clark, senior vice president for Ipsos Public Affairs, a for-profit research agency, as she discusses bad survey design. While the flaws she identifies in this SAGE Research Methods […]
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It starts with a plaintive question: “Am I the only one struggling to write a literature review?” The answer from Zina O’Leary, senior lecturer and workplace integrated learning coordinator for the University of Sydney Business School, is instant and re-assuring. “No, you are absolutely not the only one struggling to write a lit review.” In […]
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Panos Mavros is interested in the intersection of human beings and urban spaces. A PhD researcher at University College, London’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, he originally studied architecture, which is another way of exploring of the nexus of people and the built environment. But as he continued his studies, what part of the nexus […]
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Focus groups are a form of qualitative research in which the researcher generates the data through an open, but directed, discussion with a small group of participants. In this video – which you can watch for free by clicking here — qualitative researcher Carol McNaughton Nicholls discusses but the behind-the-scenes aspects of running a focus […]
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While confusing correlation with causation may be one of the oldest – if not the oldest – logical fallacies in the world, that doesn’t make humankind any less likely to conflate the two. And, as Tyler Vigen explains in the following video, “There’s a lot of bad things that can happen if we mistake correlation […]
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