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.
Research about Academic Careers in the Covid Era
New research and observations about academic careers and the Covid pandemic.
Virtual reality: The future of experimental research?
Virtual reality offers a realistic and controlled research environment, presenting an opportunity for the future of valid and reliable research in the social sciences. This blog introduces a new tool that enables real-time experience measurement in VR, under development with support from the SAGE Concept Grant.
How to embrace text analysis as a computational social scientist
In this guest blog, Alix Dumoulin and Regina Catipon cover how to embrace text analysis as a social scientist, the challenge cleaning text corpora brings in preprocessing, and introduce our upcoming tool, Texti, that will save researchers time.
Tips for Faculty Who Mentor Students Who are Working Professionals
Mentoring adult students? These tips might help!
Research in the time of coronavirus: SAGE Ocean newsletter
The latest edition of the SAGE Ocean newsletter shares tips and resources for moving your research online and making the shift to online teaching.
Five principles to get undergraduates involved in real-world data science projects
As a D-Lab and Data Science Education Program Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in Spring 2020, I helped to ensure and enhance the quality of more than 40 Data Science Discovery Projects, working with community partners and undergraduate research assistants. The goal of these projects was to connect undergraduates with community impact groups, entrepreneurship ventures, and educational initiatives across UC Berkeley and provide them with hands-on and team-based research opportunities outside the classroom.
Teaching Peacemakers
In June and July 2020 MethodSpace focused on research-oriented careers including career purpose and goals, skills, as well as expected and unexpected transitions. Surely we need people who understand the dynamics of making peace and negotiating across conflicts?
Research for Non-Tenure Track Faculty in (and beyond) the Covid Era
How can faculty in adjunct, contingent, and other non-tenure track positions make research progress now?
Inspiring wise action: Practices for storytellers of all kinds
Learn to communicate with stories with these tips from Lydia Hooper.
Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science launch online festival open to all
For the past few years in June, the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) have seen students gather across the world at partner locations and in the designated primary location to begin a two-week program of collaboration, workshops, lectures, and participant-led research projects in computational social science (CSS). The strange times of COVID have somewhat altered these plans with some partner locations postponing until 2021 and some opting to move online. Whether virtual or postponed the fourth iteration of SICSS set a new record for partner locations—a total of 22 locations signed up to take part. Founders Matt Salganik and Chris Bail, allow participants to only attend once but as attendance has grown so have graduates returning to their institutions and setting up new partner locations.
New tools for social research: SAGE Ocean Newsletter
Last month we announced the winners of the 2020 SAGE Concept Grant, which supports the development of new software tools for social science research. In the latest edition of our newsletter we introduce our six winners: Read it here and sign up for future updates.
Writing an Award-Winning Book: Interview with Dr. Cheryl Poth
Dr. Poth has written two winning books. Learn about her strategy!
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.