Thinking about designing a survey research project? This post includes interviews with authors of two recent SAGE books about different aspects of survey research.

Case study methods are used by researchers in many disciplines. Here are some open-access articles about multimodal qualitative or mixed methods designs that include both qualitative and quantitative elements.

Case study methodology is both unique, and uniquely confusing. It is unique given one characteristic: case studies draw from more than one data source.

Banned Books Week is a launchpad for an ongoing focus on factors that precede book bans or curricular restrictions, and implications for researchers and academic writers.

What did we do on Methodspace in 2022? Find commentary and content for the year!

This collection of open-access journal articles offers different perspectives for using the arts across disciplines, in all phases of the research process. While some discuss creative ways to collect data, others look at ways to share findings.

To learn more about the varied ways to collect, elicit, or generate data with creative and visual methods, consult these sources.

In this interview Gillian Rose and Janet Salmons discuss visual methodologies and methods, and the fifth edition of Rose’s important book, Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials.

Images or other creative expressions generated by participants can offer rich sources of data. What are the ethical issues in such studies, and how can we navigate them? Find examples and guidance in this collection of open-access articles.

Listen to Suzanne Culshaw and Suzanne Albary discuss visual methods in research.

Not all research involves words or numbers. Creative, visual, and arts-based methods are being used in new ways, in many fields of study. Find open-access examples in this post.

In this post Dr. Qamar discusses the use and interpretation of photographic data.

In this post, Sara Johnson reflects on the role of multimodality in student storytelling as it emerges in her work and her research into that work.

Dr. Eichsteller and Dr. Howard Davis, co-authors of Biographical Research Methods, discuss varied ways to use these approaches.

In this interview Daria Khanolainen explains how she used graphic vignettes to study school bullying, and the usefulness of this approach for studying sensitive issues.

Marta Eichsteller offers tips for using and writing about biographical methods.

Dig into participants' stories with biographical and life history interviews.

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.

Welcome to December 2022 and a focus on creative, visual, and arts-based methods!

All the posts for Academic Writing Month 2022 are here on one page!