Researchers who want to collect data in rural communities face can face challenges. Residents might be spread out, with few locations to meet. They might also have their own cultural norms, which might include suspicious attitudes towards outsiders. This collection of open-access studies offers a wide range of successful methods for including residents from rural settings in your study.

View the webinar and find a multidisciplinary collection of posts and videos from Alfredo Ortiz Aragón, Rosalind Beadle, Ernie Stringer and their colleagues.

Learn about using mixed methods with secondary data.

Colin Forster and Rachel Eperjesi co-authors of the second edition of Action Research for Student Teachers offer tips for researchers who want to study children in classroom settings.

What is autoethnography? How do researchers study their own experiences? See this post for definitions and open-access articles that explore this qualitative method for collecting data.

Looking for instructional materials you can use or adapt? These open-access and library resources can be used to learn new qualitative research skills, or to share with students.

Learn about participant observation and read open-access articles that explore this approach to collecting data online or in the field.

Focus groups allow us to hear and learn from what participants say to each other. We can conduct focus groups in-person, or online. In this post, find a collection of open-access articles about focus group methods for collecting data.

Looking for instructional materials you can use or adapt? Here are materials for teaching quantitative data collection.

Researchers who use mixed methods collect both qualitative and quantitative data. In this collection of open-access you will find articles that show how researchers collect two or more types of data.

Researchers who want to collect both qualitative and quantitative data with mixed methods will find this conversation of interest. Drs. Linda Bloomberg and Merle Werbeloff walk through the process of designing and conducting mixed methods studies.

Interviewing participants in difficult or emotional situations? Learn from Bethany Morgan Brett and Katy Wheeler.

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method for drawing probability samples of "hidden," or alternatively, hard-to-reach, populations. Find a description and examples.

In this post define basic terms associated with sampling for those new to research; in future posts we will go into more detail about the process of developing a sampling strategy, and the various approaches that can be used.

Researchers can pose questions, suggest prompts, and use tracking or location data on mobile devices. Because people carry smartphones with them, researchers are able to get an on-the-spot, in-the-moment type of response that would otherwise be difficult. Find an overview and a collection of open-access articles about diary methods using smartphone apps.

Hear Dr. Kozinets discuss the origins and development of Netnography in this interview. See the whole series of posts from Kozinets about collecting data for studies using netnography.

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.