Online surveys, or those completed on an app, have largely replaced those completed with pen and paper. These articles offer advice and recommendations for researchers specific to the design of studies that involve use of electronic surveys.

You have many options for disseminating your research. In today’s multifaceted digital world it is important to consider which options will work best to open doors to your desired academic or professional career, and how they fit together in a holistic publication strategy.

Find guidance about designing studies that use surveys to collect

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.