Research & Writing, Creativity & Collaboration
Enjoy this collaborative post about creative thinking for research and academic writing by Jane Shore, Narelle Lemon, and Janet Salmons.
View the Webinar: What Do Publishing Trends Mean for Academic Writers?
“What Do Publishing Trends Mean for Academic Writers?” View the 2020 AcWriMo webinar!
Thinking about writing a journal article?
If you are thinking that journal articles will help your career advancement, see these posts about editorial perspectives.
From Stale to Stellar: The Truth Behind How to Create an Engaging Scientific Webinar
For the rest of the year (and possibly longer) academic and scientific conferences are either going to be cancelled or virtual. Regardless of whether you find this exciting or dreadful, Dr. Echo Rivera is here to help you create and deliver an awesome webinar/virtual presentation.
Inspiring wise action: Practices for storytellers of all kinds
Learn to communicate with stories with these tips from Lydia Hooper.
How Can Smart Use of Graphics Cut Through the Complexity of COVID-19?
To try and cut through the tangles of complexity wrought by a global pandemic, I’ve been working with Peter Evans (and his multi-talented daughter, Hamsi Evans) to put together some picture ‘explainers’ to help frame thinking. These are helping communicate around the complex problems we’re all facing and how to use social science research to tackle these.
The Public May Not Understand Logarithmic Graphs Used to Depict COVID-19
Mass media routinely portray information about COVID-19 deaths on logarithmic graphs. But do their readers understand them?
Multimodal and Visual Methods: A Research Conversation
Multimodal qualitative research can make use of visual data beyond simple data visualization.
Social science research tracker, learning from past pandemics and the importance of effective risk communication
As we all adjust to the new normal things can’t and won’t simply revert to a pre-COVID-19 world. Here in the UK we are only a few weeks into our new socially distant lives, blue Monday 2020 (January 18th) doesn’t somehow seem so depressing now. As Matt Reynolds of Wired has noted, ‘this is only the grim first act of the coronavirus crisis’. With this in mind, it is extremely important that we hear from experts right across the academic spectrum.
Passion about Research Process (not output!)
My hand trembled with nervousness and anticipation. It was the start of my student research project. My supervisor had talked me through how “by doing X we will learn more about Y” and I was excited to get started.A decade later when I talk to my own students I sometimes catch myself using another way to frame our work: “if we do X, and it ‘works’, then perhaps we can get into prestigious journal Y”. This is poison for an inquiring mind...
2019 Hits: Research Ethics
While some journals are most interesting to those within a discipline, the open access Research Ethics Journal is relevant to researchers across disciplines.
2019 Hits: The International Journal of Qualitative Methods
What was most read and cited from the
2019 Hits: Big Data and Society
As 2019 draws to a close, we're highlighting relevant open access articles that attracted readers' attentions this year. Learn what interested Big Data & Society readers.
2019 Hits: Methodological Innovations
As we close out 2019 on SAGE MethodSpace, let's look at some of the most read and cited open access posts. In this post, find sources from Methodological Innovations.
2019 Hits: Popular Research Articles
Let's look at some of the research articles readers found interesting in 2019!