This year we need to honor Martin Luther King's legacy with both reflection and action! In this post, find links to lots of original source materials, including documents and recordings.

Methods Film Fest!
We can read what they write, but what do researchers say? What are they thinking about, what are they exploring, what insights do they share about methodologies, methods, and approaches? In 2023 Methodspace produced 32 videos, and you can find them all in this post!

Thinking about new beginnings in a new year? Perhaps it is a time to think abut what makes work meaningful to you, and how those priorities influence career choices. Reflect on these open-access readings about meaningful work.

The report from PEN America, Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression, connects dots that are important to academic writers: intellectual freedom, and protection of intellectual property. Summer Lopez, PEN’s Chief Program Officer for Free Expression agreed to talk about these issues and controversies.

This must-read article in The Scholarly Kitchen caught my attention: “Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?” See this thought-provoking interview with the author, Joseph Esposito.

Learn about the father of qualitative research, who passed away recently.

Experienced global researchers Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Anna Cohen Miller discuss social justice and qualitative research.

In the 50 years since hip hop started as African American street music and dance, it has become a global cultural phenomenon enjoyed across the world and studied by scholars. The resources listed here include ethnographic, mixed methods, content analysis, and case study research.

Academic and intellectual freedom are essential for scholarly researchers and writers. What can we learn from past advocates, and what should we do to combat today’s threats?

In this roundtable discussion moderated by Janet Salmons, Research Community Manager for Sage Methodspace, Marc Spooner (Canada), Nicole Brown and Áine McAllister (UK), Natalia Reinoso Chavez (Colombia) and Consuelo Chapela (Mexico) discuss constraints on academic freedom and recommendations for researchers.

Why does identity matter in the methods classroom?

Dr. Trena Paulus and Professor Joanna Pawelczyk discuss their experiences with a Fulbright residency at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

To explore the ways current pressures influence decisions, the editor and contributors to a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry, “Higher Education in the Time of Trump and Beyond: Resistance and Critique” participated in an online roundtable discussion.

We are featuring a special issue from the Qualitative Inquiry journal: “Higher Education in the Time of Trump and Beyond: Resistance and Critique”. In this post, find an interview with the editor, Dr. Marc Spooner, and open-access links to the articles.

In the 2nd quarter of 2023 the Methodspace focus is on ways to collect data. Since June is Pride Month, let’s look at experiences of LGBTQ+ researchers, and methodological and ethical dilemmas.

For Pride Month 2023, learn respectful ways to study LGBTQ+ people and related issues.

We can’t go back and change the past, but we can choose how we move forward. Find a collection of Methodspace posts, articles, webinar recordings and interviews.

Decolonisation is not a peripheral but central concern to social research for change. Learn more from Caroline Lenette, author of Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month - a good time to pay attention to wellbeing. Given the stresses on academia, it is more important than ever to find time for self-care.

It is Right to Read Day! In addition to the right to read the books we choose, what about the rights to teach and discuss, research and write?