Find suggestions for navigating the problem formulation stage that precedes research design in social science research.

Let’s begin this quarter’s exploration of research design by thinking about the research problem or topic. Who decides what to study?

Learn how computational social sciences help scholars to renew their research in several directions.

Thinking about designing a study using online surveys? Learn from these researchers’ experiences.

Online researchers face design challenges because they must also consider the implications of the technologies used in the study. By using an iterative, holistic approach, you can look inter-related dimensions of the design.

Margaret Roller’s and Paul Lavrakas' Total Quality Framework is a straightforward tool for thinking about qualitative research designs. Learn about the TQF and find a collection of resources you can use at the design stage.

A critical step in planning and designing research entails reviewing literature to situate it in a research tradition.

Want to design and plan a review study? Find open-access examples of systematic reviews, meta-syntheses, meta–analyses, and integrative literature reviews. Also, learn more with related SAGE books.

Watch this 2021 interview with Pengfei Zhao, Karen Ross, Peiwei Li and Barbara Dennis to gain new perspectives on the potential for social research and qualitative research design.

Review research has become a credible and legitimate form of scientific inquiry in various fields of science including management and organizational sciences. Find open-access articles with practical advice about planning a review study.

Online surveys, or those completed on an app, have largely replaced those completed with pen and paper. These articles offer advice and recommendations for researchers specific to the design of studies that involve use of electronic surveys.

Find guidance about designing studies that use surveys to collect

Thinking about designing a survey research project? This post includes interviews with authors of two recent SAGE books about different aspects of survey research.

Case study methods are used by researchers in many disciplines. Here are some open-access articles about multimodal qualitative or mixed methods designs that include both qualitative and quantitative elements.

Case study methodology is both unique, and uniquely confusing. It is unique given one characteristic: case studies draw from more than one data source.

How can you reduce or eliminate fraudulent responses to online surveys? Jennifer Lawlor explains.