Thinking About Research Design with Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby
By Janet Salmons, PhD Manager, Sage Research Methods Community
We need to think about research before we design and conduct it.
Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby co-authored the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters. In the book description they observe:
Designing research is about making decisions to transform an idea into a plan that can provide answers to a research problem or question. Thinking about, and then making these decisions results in the research design – the plan that will be followed to conduct the research and answer the question.
They sat down with me to discuss the decision-making central to designing and conducting research. In this series of recordings they walk through important points covered in each chapter. The videos featured here highlight:
Chapter 1 – Research Design: What You Need to Think About and Why
Chapter 2 – Ethical Issues in Research Design
and
Chapter 3 – Developing Your Research Questions
Chapters 1 and 2 are available to download. Whether you read the chapters or simply listen to these conversations, you have a chance to learn important steps in the design process for scholarly research.
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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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