Pen, smartphone, or computer - any way we can record thoughts can be a a means to gather data for a study using diary methods. This collection of open access articles includes studies using audio, visual, and written diaries.

Suggestions and resources to help you collect data with online interviews.

While reflexivity is a concept quite familiar to qualitative researchers, the idea of ‘technological reflexivity’ may be less so. Find information about October 2023 events and articles.

Q2 has come to a close. Find the entire set of posts about data collection and other important topics here.

Learn about ethics and consent for online research from the perspective of an institutional review board member.

Learn about research with online Experiments from Dr. Giuseppe Veltri.

To explore the ways current pressures influence decisions, the editor and contributors to a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry, “Higher Education in the Time of Trump and Beyond: Resistance and Critique” participated in an online roundtable discussion.

Find examples of ethnographic research conducted by more than one scholar.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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.