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The importance of research questions

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The importance of research questions

Read our guest blog by Dr Zina O’Leary, Senior Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and internationally-recognized leader in research methodologies. Zina discusses the importance of choosing and adapting the right research question before delving into research too quickly.

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Want to be more influential? It’s as easy as ABC

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Want to be more influential? It’s as easy as ABC

Read our next post in a series of guest blogs by Dr Zina O’Leary, Senior Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and internationally-recognized leader in research methodologies. Zina is the author of SAGE Campus’ upcoming Present Your Research, Research Proposal and Research Question online courses, launching in 2021. In this blog she discusses how to more influential when presenting your research.

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Communicating with impact: Presentations that influence

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Communicating with impact: Presentations that influence

In this guest blog, Dr Zina O’Leary, instructor and author of our upcoming Research Question, Research Proposal, and Present Your Research online courses discusses the steps to communicating with impact when presenting research.

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Five principles to get undergraduates involved in real-world data science projects

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Five principles to get undergraduates involved in real-world data science projects

By Jae Yeon Kim, computational social scientist and PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley, writes this guest blog on getting undergraduates involved in real-life data science projects; connecting them with community impact groups, entrepreneurship ventures, and educational initiatives to provide them with hands-on and team-based research opportunities outside the classroom.

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Tom Chatfield: Five things I learned when creating an online course

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Tom Chatfield: Five things I learned when creating an online course

What do the most useful online resources look like and do? This has become a more urgent question than anyone dreamed even a few months ago. Tom Chatfield shares tips on creating good online learning from his experience creating the SAGE Campus course Critical Thinking: An online course.

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What does ‘good’ online learning look like? Five lessons from our work with universities

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What does ‘good’ online learning look like? Five lessons from our work with universities

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, many universities around the world are having to switch to online teaching and remote learning at scale and at speed. A wealth of digital resources exist that can support this sudden shift to online but knowing what ‘good’ online learning looks like has never been easy. This shares five lessons we’ve learned from working with universities about what worked for them, and what sometimes surprised them about student engagement.

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What do future social science graduates look like?

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What do future social science graduates look like?

Technology and digitization are changing the world we live in and, consequently, what skills are required from our future workforce. It is becoming increasingly important for social science graduates to be data literate to be employable and successful. So, what exactly does the future social science graduate look like and what must institutions do to ensure their students excel?

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Why universities are switching to R for teaching social science

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Why universities are switching to R for teaching social science

Higher education institutions traditionally used SPSS when teaching social science. But there’s a shift toward R; a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. Find out the top reasons why your institution should switch to R.

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What is social data science and how is it done?

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What is social data science and how is it done?

What is social data science and how is it done? Taha Yasseri, course instructor on the SAGE Campus Research Design in Social Data Science online course, explains the big data-driven approach to social science research that everyone is talking about.

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What computational social science helped me achieve

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What computational social science helped me achieve

The ability to work with digital research methods and data analysis is opening up a whole new world of research potential for social scientists. Dr. James Allen-Robertson, Digital Sociologist at the University of Essex, tells us how computational social science has given him and his research output a new lease of life.

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