Equitable Research Partnerships instead of Helicopter Research
To do international research equitably requires a change to mind-sets and a change of established practices that have come under scrutiny for being unfair, exploitative, and non-inclusive.
What kind of researcher are YOU?
Research ethics is about more than filling out the correct form for review. Research ethics is lived practice. An interview with Janet Salmons about ethics and integrity in research practice.
Lessons from the California Management Review
In this interview the editor of the California Management Review offers advice to researchers who want to write for practitioners.
Research During COVID-19: Emerging Approaches and Exemplars
Find a collection of open-access articles about research in the COVID era.
Join Methodspace at the NVivo Virtual Conference 2021
An online conference offers a time to meet and learn from each other.
Six new software tools supporting research methods in the social sciences awarded SAGE Concept Grants
Learn about new technologies for researchers!
In Praise of Involvement
Co-authors discuss the importance of deep involvement with your research project and participants.
Emotion and reason in political language
In the day-to-day of political communication, politicians constantly decide how to amplify or constrain emotional expression, in service of signalling policy priorities or persuading colleagues and voters. We propose a new method for quantifying emotionality in politics using the transcribed text of politicians’ speeches. This new approach, described in more detail below, uses computational linguistics tools and can be validated against human judgments of emotionality.
Gender and Research: Resources for International Women's Day
It is International Women's Day! Find research resources in this SRM Reading List.
Istanbul as a regional computational social science hub
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul was originally conceived in Oxford and Helsinki. Our co-organizer, Akin Unver, and the principal data scientist tutor, Ahmet Kurnaz of SICSS-Istanbul met at Oxford University in 2017 during their joint research project on how best to use data science to gather data from hard-to-access regions such as disaster areas or war zones. From this project arose the need to launch a data science summer school in Istanbul. Our teaching assistant (Yunus Emre Tapan) was then a participant at the SICSS-Helsinki, run by our other co-organizer, Matti Nelimarkka, and also discussed the possibility of launching an Istanbul chapter. Later in 2018, Akin and Emre met at the International Studies Association annual meeting for the first time and agreed to launch SICSS-Istanbul.
2020 is past, but resources are still present!
Find master links to all thematic MethodSpace posts from 2020.
What a year...Here are our top posts of 2020: From text mining tools in the social sciences to running online experiments and visualizing COVID-19 data
The SAGE Ocean Blog started the year off with a piece on our recently published white paper on software tools for social science. Next week we’ll publish a piece from senior product manager Daniela Duca on the challenges of running social science experiments from home and what tools can help. The move to online teaching, learning, and research feature heavily in our top posts of 2020. Back in April Katie Metzler wrote about the challenge COVID-19 to student research projects and in May, Jason Radford provided some helpful recommendations for translating studies into an online format and recruiting virtual participants.
Research Ethics and COVID-19: Interview with Special Issue Editors
Check out this open-access special issue on "Research Ethics and COVID-19" and an interview with the editors.