Banned Books Week is a launchpad for an ongoing focus on factors that precede book bans or curricular restrictions, and implications for researchers and academic writers.

Peer review. Why is it important, and how can you become an excellent reviewer who contributes to your field and to impactful research that benefits society?

Learn more about the peer review processes and ideas from the field about how to improve it. Find a variety of perspectives in this collection of open-access articles.

The Methodspace focus for September 2022 was on culture and research. Find a collection of original posts, media, and open-access research from diverse perspectives.

Contributors to The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in the Asian Context discuss their methodological choices.

Discover a new open-access hub for instructional materials you can adapt for your (quantitative) research methods courses.

Learn about the multidisciplinary and research-focused business writings from a Spanish perspective in the open-access Business Research Quarterly.

The co-editors of this important collection discuss research in an Asian context.

Many Methodspace researchers conduct independent research, or are in situations where they do not have access to an Institutional Review Board or other ethics review options. Working with a private agency is an option, as described in this guest post.

Learn and network with e/merge Africa!

Sometimes crossing cultural boundaries means collecting data from people who speak a language different from your own. This post includes an introduction and articles about translation of narrative data.

Find multidisciplinary historical and contemporary resources to use when researching Hispanic heritage.

This posts discusses a explanatory sequential mixed methods study to examine the uni-directional nature of teaching western-based leadership courses, the associated knowledge transfer, and the cultural factors.

Interested in cultural issues for researchers in global settings? Watch an interview with Safary Wa-Mbaleka and a webinar panel with Arceli Rosario.

An interview with authors of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, who discuss how to use statistical techniques to understand pressing social issues.

Introducing the Methodspace focus for September 2022 on culture and research.

The Pew Research Center conducted a far-reaching study about “Being Asian in America,” with 66 online focus groups in 18 languages. Find a documentary, recorded interviews, and details about the methodology in this post.

Watch the recorded “Understanding cultural issues in research design” webinar and find relevant resources.

Dr. Safary Wa-Mbaleka discusses what he has learned from conducting research and teaching methods in the US, Asia, and Africa.

How can you conduct research in cultures different from your own? See this collection of open-access articles for ideas.