Essential new content on Sage Research Methods platform – 2024 round up
by Kasia Figiel, Sage Research Methods Community Manager
With 2024 drawing to a close, it is a good time to look back at some of the most helpful methods resources published this year on Sage’s flagship online platform. This post highlights a small sample of some of the best new content and includes links for free access.
Diversifying and Decolonizing Research collection
This multimedia collection can help you conduct research that is both critical and inclusive. Packed with rich examples of research projects and methodologies, it is a fascinating and crucial resource for any social science researcher.
Unangax Subsistence Performances and Sustainability Protocols: Interventions to the Ongoing Climate Crisis
Haliehana Stepet is an Indigenous researcher from the Alaskan Islands – an artist, scholar and activist. In this video she discusses interventions to the ongoing climate crisis using Unangax subsistence performances and sustainability protocols, including research development, data collection, and research methods used compared to westernized methods.
This accessible guide from Glora González-López explores questions pertinent to any researcher: In what ways have we been colonized during our academic training as qualitative researchers? How do become aware of the ways we have been intellectually colonized?
Quantitative and Mixed Methods collection
This collection comprehensively covers the skills required to carry out quantitative of mixed methods projects, including how to organise the data, understand and carry out statistical techniques, and do analysis with software. The video format ensures that even the complex topics covered are very accessible.
Degrees of Freedom for Parametric Testing
Best-selling author Gregor Privitera, provides an engaging introduction to key concepts in statistics, including sample variance and degrees of freedom. The concepts are approached through an interdisciplinary lens, ensuring they can be easily applied by researchers and students across a broad range of disciplines.
In Conversation with Paul Beatty of the US Census Bureau
Paul Beatty is Chief of the Center for Behavioral Science Methods at the US Census Bureau, with 30 years of experience in the US Federal Statistics Service. In this fascinating interview, he details the projects he has worked on throughout his career and gives valuable insight on his journey to working in survey methodology. Inspiring to researchers at all levels, this video is a must watch!
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