Writing an Award-Winning Book: Interview with Dr. Cheryl Poth
Dr. Poth has written two winning books. Learn about her strategy!
Interview with Concept Grant 2020 winner: Knowsi
SAGE has announced the 2020 winners of its Concept Grant program, which provides funding for innovative software solutions that support social science research. In this blog we interview Andrew Lovett-Barron, the creator of the winning tool, Knowsi; a portal for researchers and participants to manage their consent relationship.
From Individualism to Collective Truth-listening: Transformative Listening in a Time of COVID-19
Dr, Ravitch reflects on listening and learning, and meanings for social research.
Storytelling, relational inquiry, and truth-listening
Stories can reveal otherwise hidden truths. Read about ways that storytelling can enhance research.
Imagining Forward: Visual Storytelling to Make Research Accessible for Practice
Learn about using qualitative data visualization in visual storytelling.
THE BEST LAID PLANS… Qualitative Research Design During COVID-19
Research plans up in the air thanks to COVID-19? Keep going with ideas from Sharon Ravitch!
Space between Stimulus and Response: Creating Critical Research Paradises
What happens between the researcher's question or prompt, and the participant's answer? Read Sharon Ravitch's thoughtful post!
March Focus: Theory & Research Design
Welcome to a new focus on Theory and Research Design and our March Mentor-in-Residence Sharon Ravitch!
Transforming Indigenous / Non-Indigenous Research Partnerships: A Comic for Researchers
This comic you can use illustrates positive strategies research teams can use to create good working relationships.
2019 Hits: Research Ethics
While some journals are most interesting to those within a discipline, the open access Research Ethics Journal is relevant to researchers across disciplines.
Evaluation Q & A #3 with Wright & Wallis
Q & A about evaluation with Steve Wallis and Bernadette Peters
Evaluation Q & A #2 with Wright & Wallis
This post is the second of four Q & A posts with Bernadette Wright and Steve Wallis.
Evaluation Q & A with Wright & Wallis
Bernadette Wright and Steve Wallis, Mentors-in-residence for SAGE MentorSpace this month, offer four suggestions for preparing students or professionals for an evaluation.
Breaking through the disciplinary barrier with practical mapping
Steve Wallis and Bernadette Wright introduce mapping as a way to find connections across disciplines.
October 2019 Focus on Evaluation
In October 2019 we introduced a new topic focus on Evaluation, with Mentors-in-Residence to help us learn about it!
Open Access Ethics Resources for Researchers
Dr. Helen Kara offers a collection of open-access resources on research ethics.
Making sensitive text data accessible for computational social science
Text is everywhere, and everything is text. More textual data than ever before are available to computational social scientists—be it in the form of digitized books, communication traces on social media platforms, or digital scientific articles. Researchers in academia and industry increasingly use text data to understand human behavior and to measure patterns in language. Techniques from natural language processing have created a fertile soil to perform these tasks and to make inferences based on text data on a large scale.