You are thinking about the problems and questions you want to study, but how can you make a plan that works? Who will you need as collaborators or as your support team? How will you find readers and followers who are interested in your ideas?
Developing a research career can seem overwhelming! This webinar will focus on how to set priorities, make a long-range plan, and find others who can help you move forward.
Hosted by Sage’s Janet Salmons and featuring panelists Mark Carrigan and Jessica Sowa, the webinar will provide practical advice and key steps to help you move forward with confidence. Bring your questions!
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Dr. Mark Carrigan is pioneering digital sociologist. He is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester where he is programme director for the MA Digital Technologies, Communication and Education (DTCE) and co-lead of the DTCE Research and Scholarship group. He’s the author of Social Media for Academics, published by Sage and now in its second edition. He is currently writing Generative AI for Academics which will be released next year. Learn more at https://markcarrigan.net.
Professor Jessica Sowa’s research focuses on public and nonprofit management, with an emphasis on the management of human resources (HRM) in public and nonprofit organizations, organizational effectiveness, and collaboration. Sowa’s work has been published in a number of public and nonprofit journals. Current projects include a textbook on public and nonprofit human resource management, research on public leadership, executive succession in nonprofit organizations, volunteer management in fire departments, and HRM in local government. She serves on the editorial board of a number of journals in public administration and public human resource management. She is the editor-in-chief of the Review of Public Personnel Administration.
Recent Methodspace Posts
This blog post is the first of nine in a follow-on to our “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica. It continues to bring the power of computational social science to the issues of systemic racism and inequality in America. This marks the third iteration of the successful SICSS model being hosted by a Historically Black College or University.
Throughout your research journey, leveraging digital tools can be advantageous, aiding you from initial planning to final presentation. Whether you lean towards paper-based methods or embrace a hybrid approach combining both digital and traditional tools, this blog post from Kelly Trivedy offers insights to help you explore and experiment with new tools effectively!
Typically, interviewers are accustomed to using words: we ask questions, we prompt follow-up responses, but the same principles of visual communication are true for research exchanges. Find tips and examples in this post.
Let’s use this open-access research case to think through the possibilities and potential problems involved with studying blog posts and online discussions.
Researchers can easily access user-generated public videos. See this multidisciplinary collection of open access articles about quantitative and qualitative approaches to collecting and analyzing videos from YouTube or TikTok.
Decolonizing research methods means rethinking how we look at participants and problems. In the digital world there are even more ways the European West exerts cultural, economic, and political control. At the same time, the digital world allows researchers to conduct studies across the distances.
Storytelling has been a part of our shared life since the beginning of time. Story-based research approaches are especially valuable when studying sensitive issues or collecting data with vulnerable participants. In today’s digital world we have new ways to share and collect stories in a research context.
Hashtags offer online researchers ways to identify popular topics, trace viral messages, and locate influential thought leaders. Learn more about how researchers use hashtags with this multidisciplinary collection of open access articles.
Let’s use this open-access research case to think through the possibilities and potential problems involved with studying blog posts and online discussions.
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Suggestions and resources to help you collect data with online interviews.