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Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss how to make decisions about methodology in this collection of video interviews. This post is the second of a three-part series of posts that feature ten author interviews.

Learn about action and participatory research methods, and ways to design and carry out research with, not on, communities.

Susan Gasson, Jillian Blacker, Ian Stoodley, Abbe Winter and Christine Bruce edited a new open access book, Confident Supervisors, to meet this need.

“Learning about networks, therefore, is to learn key intellectual and empirical skills for navigating through complexity – this descriptor that permeates the world of the 21st century.” Learn more in this guest post from Ion Georgiou.

Is it too hard to address problems in our complex world with one type of data? Mixed methods might be the answer. Find explanations and open-access resources in this post.

Chart research directions that take you to the roots of the problem. Learn more in this guest post from Dr. Donna Mertens.

In this guest post Jane Shore and Sarah Singer Quast remind us of the importance of bridging research and practice, and give specific recommendations.

by Maria Lahman, Ph.D. and Tyler Kincaid Ph.D., panelists for the How to Do Research and Get Published webinar, “How to write a paper: Qualitative methodology” share their insights.

Learn about options available in the dynamic landscape of emerging methodological extensions in the PLS-SEM field is the necessary condition analysis (NCA).

How can you use data science in social science research? Find an interview with the Oxford Internet Institute’s Dr. Bernie Hogan and lots of useful resources in this post.

We need to think about research before we design and conduct it.

Julianne Cheek and Elise Øby, co-authors of the book Research Design: Why Thinking About Design Matters, discuss the first three chapters in these video interviews:

Chapter 1 – Research Design: What You Need to Think About and Why

Chapter 2 – Ethical Issues in Research Design

Chapter 3 – Developing Your Research Questions

Conduct a reference search and format your reference section was offered as part of the How to Do Research and Get Published webinar series. Watch the recording and find lots of useful resources in this post.

The process for researching literature on research methods is somewhat different from the process used for researching literature about the topic, problem, or questions. What should we keep in mind when selecting methods literature?

Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) enables researchers to model and estimate complex cause-effects relationship models

The editor of The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education, Safary Wa-Mbaleka, is joined by contributors in a lively roundtable about teaching and learning online.

How do researchers make design decisions about the methodology and methods?

Find a collection of resources about writing and publishing articles and more!

Learn about research design, doctoral writing, and academic publishing with these posts and recordings from Dr. Linda Bloomberg and Dr. Merle Werbeloff.

In-depth comprehension and interpretation of social events, human experiences, and behaviours are often the main goals of qualitative researchers. Learn about the primary concerns of qualitative researchers in this guest post by Pinaki Burman.