Paula Moreno, founder of Manos Visibles & first Afro-Colombian woman to serve as Minister of Culture of Colombia, delivered the first SICSS-Howard/Mathematica Motivational Address, focused on the technological challenges and solutions for Africans and people of African descent around the world.

What does it mean to be central to your research? In this post we are defining a method that asks researchers to be at the center of their studies, and looking for explanations and examples of autobiography.

Speakers at SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2022 explore how change does not affect populations equally, and how the exclusion of underrepresented communities can perpetuate social injustice.

Bite-Sized Lunchtime Talks (BSLT) are a SICSS-Howard/Mathematica site-specific innovation that introduces participants to organizations doing cool things with data. 2022 offered a variety of organizations that proved interesting and inspiring to our participants.

How to look at data collection using an Equity Framework for CTE Research, which provides principles and practices for researchers on equity questions, designs, and implications throughout the research process.

Find a multidisciplinary collection of scholarly and historical articles about Juneteenth.

Dr. Safiya Noble speaks about her journey as a critical race scholar, her research on the racist and sexist dynamics of search engines, and the importance of community.

Are you looking for a new text for a course or a book to read about qualitative methods? See this list of recent Sage releases.

Even if it isn’t the book you pack for a beach getaway, this is a good time to review new texts for future course instruction. You might also find materials that can introduce new approaches and enhance your research skills. Find new titles about quantitative methods (and a discount code.)

At SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2022, Shawndra B. Hill, Karen Levy, Brandeis Marshall, and Kyla McMullen emphasized themes of technological determinism, bias, and privacy, and discussed connections to inclusion, equity, and diversity.

We are featuring a special issue from the Qualitative Inquiry journal: “Higher Education in the Time of Trump and Beyond: Resistance and Critique”. In this post, find an interview with the editor, Dr. Marc Spooner, and open-access links to the articles.

Learn about unstructured interviews in this post from Dr. Azher Hameed Qamar.

The opening plenary of SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2022 featured a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony K. Wutoh, the Provost of Howard University, and Dr. Amy Yeboah Quarkume, an Associate Professor of Africana Studies, to kick off the event.

In the 2nd quarter of 2023 the Methodspace focus is on ways to collect data. Since June is Pride Month, let’s look at experiences of LGBTQ+ researchers, and methodological and ethical dilemmas.

For Pride Month 2023, learn respectful ways to study LGBTQ+ people and related issues.

The first Summer Institute in Computational Social Science held at a Historically Black College or University, returns to Howard University for its two-day pre-institute, Praxis to Power for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty who needed more time to practice computational methods.

Learn about the implications of insider, outsider, or mixed positions, and the importance of transparency with your readers.

In our digital world, one way to engage with others is through games. Find a collection of examples of research uses for interactive games.

Researchers who want to collect data in rural communities face can face challenges. Residents might be spread out, with few locations to meet. They might also have their own cultural norms, which might include suspicious attitudes towards outsiders. This collection of open-access studies offers a wide range of successful methods for including residents from rural settings in your study.

We can’t go back and change the past, but we can choose how we move forward. Find a collection of Methodspace posts, articles, webinar recordings and interviews.