Methods and the Literature Review
A critical step in planning and designing research entails reviewing literature to situate it in a research tradition.
Building Quantitative Skills in Postsecondary Social Sciences Courses
Download the free report from the project, “Fostering Data Literacy: Teaching with Quantitative Data in the Social Sciences.” This report explores two key challenges to teaching with data: helping students overcome anxieties about math and synchronizing the interconnected methodological, software, and analytic competencies.
Fair Elections and Democracy: Research about Voting
This post, with links to open-access research articles, seems particularly relevant when the USA is in the midst of a tight mid-term election.
Inspiring Collaboration
Julie Reeves discusses some important points about internal and external collaborations in this interview and post.
Using Universal Design for Learning to Foster Inclusive Student Collaboration
Dr. Majbritt Lyck-Bowen offers suggestions for collaborative research assignments that include everyone in an online class.
Indigenous and Intercultural Research: Issues, Ethics, and Methods
Interested in Indigenous methods? Find the webinar recording and related resources in this post.
Teaching Cultural Issues and Quantitative Methods
Discover a new open-access hub for instructional materials you can adapt for your (quantitative) research methods courses.
Q & A about mentors and mentoring
Answers to questions about mentoring posed during a webinar (and the recording too!)
Cross-culturalism and the Application of Leadership Education in Mainland China
This posts discusses a explanatory sequential mixed methods study to examine the uni-directional nature of teaching western-based leadership courses, the associated knowledge transfer, and the cultural factors.
Addressing Scientific Misconduct
In this 2018 interview Dr. Benson Honig discusses ethical research conduct.
Design Tool: The SRM Research Project Planner
Learn about the SAGE Research Methods Project Planner.
Teaching & Mentoring with Open Access SAGE Research Methods Journals
Pointing students or mentees to articles that describe or exemplify research methods is a responsibility of methods faculty or dissertation/thesis supervisors. Open access journals are useful when you don't have a robust academic library. Here are some SAGE journals you can tap for readings, with a recent article from each.
Mentoring Academic Researchers and Writers
This collection of posts offers ideas, guidance, and resources for mentors and mentees in the context of research and academic writing.
5 Ways to Use SRM Reading Lists for Teaching Methods
If your academic library has SAGE Research Methods, you can use the Reading List feature to curate resources for instructional or research purposes. Learn how!
SAGE Research Methods: Social Bookmarking with Reading Lists
Learn how to find and and create reading lists in the SAGE Research Methods database.
Teach & Guide Researchers: Resources from Sage Research Methods
These SAGE books, cases, and videos from the SAGE Research Methods library focus on mentoring and being mentored in a research context.
Honesty and Originality in Academic Writing
Ethical research practice does not stop with the conclusion of the study. Importantly, ethical research practice comes to fruition in academic writing.
What makes a good mentor?
What makes a good research mentor? Explore three core characteristics for good mentors: knowing, being, and doing.
Teaching Research Ethics Creatively
Teaching research ethics doesn’t have to be serious (or boring.) Catherine Dawson offers creative ideas to engage your students (or to try yourself!)