What do academics write when they are free from institutional constraints about what they can publish? See this post and conversation with Janet Salmons and Virginia Yonkers.

Listen to this conversation with Dr. Stu Shulman for discussion of implications of current developments for academics.

Listen to a conversation about online methods with Dr. Suzanne Albray, host of the DoBetterResearch podcast series, and Dr. Janet Salmons, Research Community Manager for Methodspace.

Dr. Boyd was a panelist for the webinar, How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck. In this post she responds to questions posed by attendees: “How do you get unstuck in writing when someone's negative, hypercritical, or just mean feedback has gotten you stuck?” and “How do you balance or sustain your writing with all the imposter syndrome thoughts coming at you?

Dr. Boyd was a panelist for the webinar, How Academic Writing Coaches Get Unstuck. In this post she responds to questions posed by attendees: “How do you get unstuck in writing when someone's negative, hypercritical, or just mean feedback has gotten you stuck?” and “How do you balance or sustain your writing with all the imposter syndrome thoughts coming at you?

Since I am advocating for ways to stay engaged with writing, drifting may seem a strange interlude. Yet, I find drifting to be a vital companion state to writing. For me, usually drifting occurs when I have set aside all devices and am absorbed in some wholly different task, such as gardening, chauffeuring or waiting for children, or simply watching birds congregate at the feeder.

We kicked off this year’s AcWriMo with a webinar that featured three professional coaches. View the recording here, and check back for more posts from the panelists and answers to questions posed during the webinar.

Researchers work together to conduct studies and write about the results. Explore practical ideas and scholarly studies in this collection of posts and open-access articles.

Where do you start when the blank page is staring at you? Answer these key questions to get started!

Find coming events and recordings of past webinars in this series about getting published.

Find food for thought and strategies for action this AcWriMo on SAGE Methodspace.

We are all busy. How can we find time to write? Maria Lahman, author of Writing and Representing Qualitative Research offers some suggestions.

Peer review. Why is it important, and how can you become an excellent reviewer who contributes to your field and to impactful research that benefits society?

Learn more about the peer review processes and ideas from the field about how to improve it. Find a variety of perspectives in this collection of open-access articles.

This collection of open-access SAGE journal articles includes a variety of perspectives on collaborative research and writing.

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.

Julie Reeves discusses some important points about internal and external collaborations in this interview and post.

Getting started with a new collaborative project? Think about approaches for working with others within a group, intra-group collaboration, or across groups, inter-group collaboration.

Ways researchers and participants relate can be collaborative, as Laura Wilson and Emma Dickinson discussed in this SAGE Methodspace interview.

Research and writing can be solitary activities. This post from Natalia Reinoso Chávez follows one by Janet Salmons about how two independent researchers have found value in collaborative friendship.