Watch this recent webinar on Research Impact. Dr Tamika Heiden and Dr Josh Gladden discuss how they have encountered and promoted research impact within their fields, focusing on strategies for bridging academic and societal impact.  

Gorilla has announced the opening of applications for their 2024 Multiplayer Grant, reflecting on the success of the Spring Grant. Winning projects showcased Gorilla’s tools, driving forward psychological and behavioral research.

In the fourth post of our Using Codebooks in Qualitative Research series, authors, Angie Sibley-White & Gisela Oliveira (Senior Lecturers in Education at De Montfort University), explore how codebooks benefit solo researchers. Beyond team projects, codebooks enhance research rigor, facilitate reflexivity, and support early theorization, making them invaluable tools for independent qualitative researchers.

In the third post of our Using Codebooks in Qualitative Research series, Angie Sibley-White (Senior Lecturer in Education at De Montfort University), reflects on her experience using a codebook during her PhD research. She shares insights on how a codebook can help novice researchers navigate complex data analysis, ensuring rigor, transparency, and consistency.

Introducing the Teaching category winner for the 2024 Concept Grants from Sage: The Media Education Research Lab (MERL) at UC Berkeley develops tools and methods to teach students how to critically assess diversity in film and television, promoting media literacy and nuanced analysis.

Introducing the Doing Research category winner for the 2024 Concept Grants from Sage: Y: The Home of LLMs is a versatile digital twin platform that simulates social media dynamics using LLMs, allowing researchers to explore and test social scenarios with realistic, customizable synthetic data.

Introducing the Learning category winner for the 2024 Concept Grants from Sage: educate_R suite simplifies advanced data analysis for social science students and researchers, offering intuitive tools like Data Distillery for data cleaning and visualization.

In the second post of our Using Codebooks in Qualitative Research series, our authors, Angie Sibley-White & Gisela Oliveira (Senior Lecturers in Education at De Montfort University), dive into the process of creating a codebook. We guide you through the essential steps, from defining your goals to developing and refining codes, ensuring consistency and clarity in your qualitative analysis.

Welcome to Using Codebooks in Qualitative Research. In the first post, our authors, Angie Sibley-White & Gisela Oliveira (Senior Lecturers in Education at De Montfort University) define codebooks, explore their flexibility, and discuss how they enhance data organization, consistency, and rigor in research.

Annotiva, a 2023 Sage Concept Grant recipient, gives an update on the development of their AI-assisted tool to enhance qualitative coding by predicting ambiguities and improving collaboration among novice researchers.

Catch up with Gorilla’s Shop Builder 2. Developed after receiving the 2023 Sage Concept Grant, it features a modular design, mobile compatibility, skinnability, and improved customization, enhancing researchers' flexibility and user experience.

BigKnowledge's BoKMap platform transforms mapping principles into a "GPS for knowledge," visualizing unstructured text data in a map-like form, aiding in document exploration and discovery across various domains. Read more for an update on ths 2023 Concept Grant winning project.

We check in with GailBot, the £15k Concept Grant winner. Combining ASR and ML to capture paralinguistic features, GailBot has been revamped for wider researcher use. After a week-long UCLA hack session, we’re addressing internationalization and user-driven feature requests, ensuring scalable and versatile transcription. Join our Slack Community for updates!

This blog by Nur Şat, Associate Professor at Hitit University, Türkiye discusses a project which bridged a critical gap in Public Administration (PA) research by offering a free, online training program on qualitative methods. Master's students and academics honed their skills in areas like proposal development and data analysis. The program attracted strong interest, with a mobile-friendly website garnering nearly 2,000 visits. Participants reported high satisfaction and a significant improvement in their research abilities. This experience offers valuable insights for academics seeking to organize similar projects.

Listen to this interview, and check out Rhys Jones’ latest book: Statistical Literacy: A Beginner's Guide.

Informed consent is the term given to the agreement between researcher and participant. In this post Janet Salmons offers suggestions about the intersections of the Internet communications, ethics and participants.

Find examples and guidance about collecting data on blogs or vlogs.

Explore the significance of Juneteenth in US history and reflect on inclusive research practices with us! We highlight the role that researchers can play in designing research that is ethical, community based and transformative.

This blog post is the eighth, and final, post in a follow-on to our 2021 “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.