Janet Salmons

Written By Chris Burnage

Dr. Janet Salmons is a free-range scholar, writer, coach, and artist through Vision2Lead. Her areas of interest include emerging research methods, and teaching and collaborative learning in the digital age. Janet serves as the Community Manager and lead writer here at Methodspace. She is an honorary member of the TAA Council of Fellows (2019) and received the Mike Keedy Award (2018) in recognition of enduring service to authors. She lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

Janet's most recent books are: What kind of researcher are you? (2021), Reframing and Rethinking Collaboration in Higher Education and Beyond: A Practical Guide for Doctoral Students and Early Career Researchers with Narelle Lemon (2021), Publishing from your Doctoral Research: Create and Use a Publication Strategy with Helen Kara (2020), Learning to Collaborate, Collaborating to Learn (2019), Find the Theory in Your Research (2019), Getting Data Online (2019), and Doing Qualitative Research Online (2016).

 
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Keeping Writing Projects Alive
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods, Communicating Research
Keeping Writing Projects Alive
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods, Communicating Research

Have a writing project that is languishing? Find practical tips for keeping it alive!

Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods, Communicating Research
A Case for Teaching Methods
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods
A Case for Teaching Methods
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods

Find an 10-step process for using research cases to teach methods with learning activities for individual students, teams, or small groups. (Or use the approach yourself!)

Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods
Become a Productive Academic Writer
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Become a Productive Academic Writer
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research

Get ready for #AcWriMo! Find a checklist that will help you overcome obstacles that keep you from making progress with academic writing.

Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Qual Data Analysis & Ethnography
Data Analysis
Qual Data Analysis & Ethnography
Data Analysis

Ethnography involves the production of highly detailed accounts of how people in a social setting lead their lives, based on systematic and long-term observation of, and discussion with, those within the setting.

Data Analysis
Creating a Culture of Inquiry in the Classroom
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods
Creating a Culture of Inquiry in the Classroom
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods

How can you create a culture of active learning and inquiry in your classroom?

Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods
Writing a New Book Edition
Writing a New Book Edition

Dr. Helen Kara and Dr. Janet Salmons discuss their experiences and strategies for planning and writing a new book edition.

Emerging Methods: Creative Research Examples
Identifying & Planning Research, Research Design
Emerging Methods: Creative Research Examples
Identifying & Planning Research, Research Design

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.

Identifying & Planning Research, Research Design
Develop Your Voice as an Academic Writer
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Develop Your Voice as an Academic Writer
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research

What is a “scholarly voice” and how do I develop it?

Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Make Sense to Your Reader with Improved Organization
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Make Sense to Your Reader with Improved Organization
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research

Organize your writing so reviewers understand what you are saying.

Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Addressing Scientific Misconduct
Data Analysis, Teaching Methods, Data Collection, Research Design, Communicating Research
Addressing Scientific Misconduct
Data Analysis, Teaching Methods, Data Collection, Research Design, Communicating Research

In this 2018 interview Dr. Benson Honig discusses ethical research conduct.

Data Analysis, Teaching Methods, Data Collection, Research Design, Communicating Research
SAGE Research Methods: Social Bookmarking with Reading Lists
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods
SAGE Research Methods: Social Bookmarking with Reading Lists
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods

Learn how to find and and create reading lists in the SAGE Research Methods database.

Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods
Journal Spotlight: Business & Society
Research Design
Journal Spotlight: Business & Society
Research Design

Learn about the kinds of multidisciplinary and research-focused articles published in the Business & Society journal.

Research Design
Qualitative online research… what is emerging?
Research Design, Identifying & Planning Research, Communicating Research, Data Collection
Qualitative online research… what is emerging?
Research Design, Identifying & Planning Research, Communicating Research, Data Collection

Qualitative online research methods continue to emerge and evolve. Learn more in this post.

Research Design, Identifying & Planning Research, Communicating Research, Data Collection
Data Collection in Participants’ Pockets: Research with Apps
Identifying & Planning Research
Data Collection in Participants’ Pockets: Research with Apps
Identifying & Planning Research

In a new twist to diary and survey methods, researchers are using smartphone applications to collect data. Find an explanation and curated collection of open-access articles in this post.

Identifying & Planning Research
Honest Feedback Helps Researchers Develop Methods
Methods Innovation
Honest Feedback Helps Researchers Develop Methods
Methods Innovation

Is it brilliant or crazy? It can be hard to know whether your new ideas make sense, so ask a trusted colleague for honest feedback. Find an example and tips in this post.

Methods Innovation
Proposing a Study with Emerging Methods
Identifying & Planning Research
Proposing a Study with Emerging Methods
Identifying & Planning Research

Find tips you can use to build a bridge between familiar methods and the new approaches you want to use in your study.

Identifying & Planning Research
Two Perspectives on Critical Thinking and Research
Teaching Methods, Identifying & Planning Research
Two Perspectives on Critical Thinking and Research
Teaching Methods, Identifying & Planning Research

Tom Chatfield and Janet Salmons discuss critical and creative thinking in this updated post from the archives. Both kinds of thinking are crucial for research, especially when the study uses new methods.

Teaching Methods, Identifying & Planning Research
Authors Discuss Emerging Qualitative Online Methods
Identifying & Planning Research, Research Design
Authors Discuss Emerging Qualitative Online Methods
Identifying & Planning Research, Research Design

Janet Salmons and Trena Paulus discuss trends in online qualitative research and their new books, Doing Qualitative Research Online and Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World.

Identifying & Planning Research, Research Design
What are “Emerging” Methods?
Identifying & Planning Research
What are “Emerging” Methods?
Identifying & Planning Research

Let’s define “emerging methods” and look at an example.

Identifying & Planning Research
But Does it Work? New Text on Evaluation to the Rescue!
Teaching Methods, Research Design
But Does it Work? New Text on Evaluation to the Rescue!
Teaching Methods, Research Design

In this interview one of co-authors of Evaluation: A Systematic Approach discusses evaluative practices.

Teaching Methods, Research Design
Online Interviews about Sensitive Topics
Data Collection
Online Interviews about Sensitive Topics
Data Collection

How can you interview participants online about sensitive topics? Tips from Janet Salmons, author of Doing Qualitative Research Online.

Data Collection
Video interview: Linda Liebenberg, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods on research relevance
Impact & Society
Video interview: Linda Liebenberg, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods on research relevance
Impact & Society

What does Dr. Liebenberg, Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, have to say about research relevance?

Impact & Society
Research<>Relevance in 2022
Impact & Society
Research<>Relevance in 2022
Impact & Society

Is research relevant in today’s changing world?

Impact & Society
Research Uses for Blogs
Communicating Research
Research Uses for Blogs
Communicating Research

Should you blog about your research? What types of academic blogs serve what purpose?

Communicating Research
Share Your Research: Blog and/or Social Media
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research, Impact & Society
Share Your Research: Blog and/or Social Media
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research, Impact & Society

Academic blogging- what is it and how can it be a part of your publication strategy?

Tools & Technology, Communicating Research, Impact & Society
Visual Journaling for Research
Communicating Research
Visual Journaling for Research
Communicating Research

We are discussing visual and engaging ways to communicate research. Sometimes we are communicating with ourselves, with a research journal.

Communicating Research
Focusing: The Muse and the Mundane
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Focusing: The Muse and the Mundane
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research

Pause. Take a walk. Listen to your muse. Then you will be ready to write!

Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Thinking about editing a book?
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods, Communicating Research
Thinking about editing a book?
Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods, Communicating Research

Want to edit a book? Think about your goals and editorial style, then make a plan!

Tools & Technology, Teaching Methods, Communicating Research
Thinking about a journal article? Tips from an editor.
Thinking about a journal article? Tips from an editor.

From the archives, an informative interview with the former editor of Management Learning.

Envisioning an Edited Book
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
Envisioning an Edited Book
Tools & Technology, Communicating Research

Questions to ask if you are thinking about editing a book.

Tools & Technology, Communicating Research
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