Find a collection of Sage books about ethnographic methods.

We will explore a variety of options for data collection in Q2 of 2023. The term data collection makes it sounds easy. Like shells on the beach or wildflowers in a field, the data is out there, and as researchers all we have to do is collect it. In reality it is a careful, strategic, often collaborative effort.

How do you decide which methodology fits your study? In this dialogue Linda Bloomberg and Janet Boberg explain the importance of a strategic approach to qualitative research design that stresses alignment with the purpose of the study.

View a recorded webinar with Dr. Janet Salmons, Research Community Manager for Methodspace and author of Doing Qualitative Research Online, Dr. Stacy Penna, Customer Engagement and Enablement Director for Lumivero (previously NVivo, and Leon Bourner, Director of Sales and Client Development for itracks.

To learn more about the varied ways to collect, elicit, or generate data with creative and visual methods, consult these sources.

In this interview Gillian Rose and Janet Salmons discuss visual methodologies and methods, and the fifth edition of Rose’s important book, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials.

In this post, Sara Johnson reflects on the role of multimodality in student storytelling as it emerges in her work and her research into that work.

In this interview Daria Khanolainen explains how she used graphic vignettes to study school bullying, and the usefulness of this approach for studying sensitive issues.

Marta Eichsteller offers tips for using and writing about biographical methods.

Dig into participants' stories with biographical and life history interviews.

Ways researchers and participants relate can be collaborative, as Laura Wilson and Emma Dickinson discussed in this SAGE Methodspace interview.

Researchers often collaborate with community partners, as discussed in this guest post from PhD candidates from Duke University’s Cultural Anthropology and African American Studies programs.

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

In this 2018 interview Dr. Benson Honig discusses ethical research conduct.

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

How can you conduct online research with children and youth? Here are some open-access examples.

Thinking about research with children and/or youth? Learn about different types of studies from this collection of articles.

Qualitative online research methods continue to emerge and evolve. Learn more in this post.

Using action research to understand Covid-19 experiences, a guest post by Hege Gravdahl Garelius.

The 11 co-authors of “Self-in-Field Action Research in Natural Spaces of Encounter: Inclusion, Learning, and Organizational Change” discuss their research.