Given the difficulties that emerged with the global Covid pandemic, the European Commission funded the PREPARED project. The aim of the project is to develop an ethics and integrity framework to guide researchers working to prevent and address large-scale crises. Find meeting reports, recordings, and related posts.

Find tips that will help you hone your writing.

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

Writing is often a solitary activity. However, reflection with others is a key part of understanding how to develop and define ideas from text. Learn more in this post.

In 2023 academic writers have more than the usual number of issues to contend with, so we will tackle writing, presenting, and disseminating research for three months! From October through December, find posts, interviews, curated collections of open-access resources, and webinars!

The focus for Q3 of 2023 was on analyzing and interpreting qualitative and quantitative data. Find all the posts, interviews, and resources here!

Dr. Stephen Gorard defines and explains randomness in a research context.

Mentor in Residence Stephen Gorard explains how researchers can think about predicting results.

The Career and Technical Education (CTE) Equity Framework approach draws high-level insights from this body of work to inform equity in data analysis that can apply to groups of people who may face systemic barriers to CTE participation. Learn more in this two-part post!

The Career and Technical Education (CTE) Equity Framework approach draws high-level insights from this body of work to inform equity in data analysis that can apply to groups of people who may face systemic barriers to CTE participation. This is part 2, find the link to part 1 and previous posts about the Equity Framework.

Instructional tips for teaching quantitative data analysis.

In an era of rampant misinformation and disinformation, what research can you trust? Dr. Stephen Gorard offers guidance!

Learn how inductive and deductive styles of reasoning are used to interpret qualitative research findings.

Images contain information absent in text, and this extra information presents opportunities and challenges. It is an opportunity because one image can document variables with which text sources (newspaper articles, speeches or legislative documents) struggle or on datasets too large to feasibly code manually. Learn how to overcome the challenges.

Tips for dealing with missing data from Dr. Stephen Gorard, author of How to Make Sense of Statistics.

Learn more about standard deviation from a paper and presentation from Dr. Stephen Gorard.

Situational analysis invites researchers to explore relationships and patterns in the data by creating visual maps as part of the analytic process. Co-authors of the book on this analytic method presented a webinar - view it here.

Video capture is ubiquitous. What does it mean for researchers, and how can we analyze such data?

Qualitative data analysis varies by methodology. Learn about approaches for phenomenological studies through this collection of open access articles.

Learn about qualitative data analysis approaches for narrative and diary research in these open access articles.