Helping students critically engage with research

There are some perennial challenges to doing a research project that all of us have faced: formulating a research question, wrestling with paradigmatic assumptions, keeping on track of a multi-year project. The Essential Guide to Doing Your Research Project has been helping students (and supervisors) for more than 20 years. But in a post-pandemic world with the transformations being wrought by artificial intelligence, datafication, and the rise and fall of social media platforms, there are new challenges facing researchers.


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New Launch: Sage Research Methods Video - Research Design and Planning

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Research Design and Planning video collection, a powerful new resource designed to equip researchers with the essential tools and insights to craft high-impact research projects. Whether you're a student, academic, or professional researcher, this collection is your go-to guide for mastering the art and science of research design.

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Design and Data Collection with Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby

Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss how to make decisions about what qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods data to collect and how to do so. This post is the third of a three-part series of posts that feature ten author interviews.

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Thinking About Research Design with Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby

We need to think about research before we design and conduct it.

Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss the first three chapters in these video interviews:

Chapter 1 – Research Design: What You Need to Think About and Why

Chapter 2 – Ethical Issues in Research Design

Chapter 3 – Developing Your Research Questions

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