Tools & Technology, Skills, Methods Innovation, Impact & Society, Diversity Equity & Inclusion Chris Burnage Tools & Technology, Skills, Methods Innovation, Impact & Society, Diversity Equity & Inclusion Chris Burnage

What a year...Here are our top posts of 2020: From text mining tools in the social sciences to running online experiments and visualizing COVID-19 data

The SAGE Ocean Blog started the year off with a piece on our recently published white paper on software tools for social science. Next week we’ll publish a piece from senior product manager Daniela Duca on the challenges of running social science experiments from home and what tools can help. The move to online teaching, learning, and research feature heavily in our top posts of 2020. Back in April Katie Metzler wrote about the challenge COVID-19 to student research projects and in May, Jason Radford provided some helpful recommendations for translating studies into an online format and recruiting virtual participants.

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Tools & Technology, Research Design Dmitrijs Martinovs Tools & Technology, Research Design Dmitrijs Martinovs

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.

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Tools & Technology Heather Estop Tools & Technology Heather Estop

SAGE Concept Grants: Feedback for applicants

The 2020 SAGE Ocean Concept Grant program drew over 140 applications from all over the world. In this blog post, we’re giving you an insight into our judging criteria and sharing the most common reasons why applications did not progress further, to serve as feedback for this year’s applicants and guidance for future applicants.

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