Janet Salmons and Trena Paulus discuss trends in online qualitative research and their new books, Doing Qualitative Research Online and Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World.

The definitions laid out in the post “What are “Emerging” Methods?” are used as a springboard for discussing open-access articles from the journal, Methodological Innovations.

Let’s define “emerging methods” and look at an example.

Find a collection of readings and cases about LGBTQ+ researchers and research.

This month on Methodspace we will take a new look at ways to use traditional methods for collecting and analyzing data and consider innovative methods now emerging in the field.

This collection of open-access articles offers a range of strategies for evaluating your research project and process.

On a day when Americans reel from yet another school shooting, find a collection of studies about such violence and its aftermath.

In a spirit of self-evaluation, Aqueelah Ellzy reflects on the transformational learning her practitioner research and professional inquiry have evinced. She offers suggestions for Practitioner-Researchers.

Want to learn more about evaluation? Looking for resources for students? Check out these articles, videos, and a free webinar series from Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton.

In this interview one of co-authors of Evaluation: A Systematic Approach discusses evaluative practices.

Find over 100 resources on evaluation: books, cases, and videos, on SAGE Research Methods.

Open-access articles about cultural issues and implications for evaluative studies.

What ethical issues arise in evaluation? Find examples and recommendations in this collection of open-access articles.

Academic evaluation regimes set up to quantify the quality of research, individual scholars, and institutions have been widely criticized for the detrimental effects they have on academic environments and on knowledge production itself. Max Fochler and Sarah de Rijcke recently called for a more exploratory, less standardized way of doing research evaluation, with the introduction of the concept of the evaluative inquiry.

Summer Institute in Computational Social Science site sponsored by Howard University and Mathematica (SICSS-Howard/Mathematica) awards individuals and teams for the inaugural Excellence in Computational Social Science Research Fund as a unique and exclusive benefit offered to alumni of the site.

Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton answer some questions about their work as evaluators and as a father-daughter co-author team.

Read about this co-creative project and methodologies for evaluating its success.

This collection of open-access articles provides a variety of examples you can adopt for an evaluative study.

This collection of posts from the archives features posts by Steve Wallis and Bernadette Wright, authors of “Practical Mapping for Applied Research and Program Evaluation.”

Learn about the What? Why? When? How? Where? and Who? of evaluation from Michael Quinn Patton and Charmagne E. Campbell-Patton.