Join our virtual workshop to explore the vital connection between education and democracy. A focus on critical thinking within education offers the opportunity to teach students the skills necessary to question the status quo, develop informed opinions, and contribute to preserving and promoting democracy in society. In this virtual event, presenters will explore democracy, the what, how, and why of using critical thinking skills, how to think about and evaluate evidence, top tips and tools to combat and resist misinformation, and much more.

Join us for an engaging virtual panel event as scholars and researchers from across disciplines share their work, from trans representation in the Philippines to gender norms in South Asian culture and more. This panel will offer valuable insights into the impact of colonial legacies on LGBTQ+ research, the challenges faced by those studying LGBTQ+ communities outside the West, and strategies for decolonizing queer identities and academia.

In this webinar, Editors from Sage journals will share their experiences and initiatives in promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in academic publishing.

This year’s lecture will be delivered by Gary Younge FAcSS, author, broadcaster, and Professor of Sociology at University of Manchester.

Sharing skills, tools, and resources for librarians and faculty to combat misinformation in the face of constantly changing technology 

This engaging discussion brings together researchers and scholars to shed light on the experiences, challenges, and contributions of bisexual individuals in academic and research fields.

How can you dig deeper into scholarly articles, especially when looking at literature from unfamiliar disciplines or methodologies? In this engaging and practical Methodspace webinar we’ll demonstrate strategies you can use in your own research, or in your methods instruction with new researchers.

Instructors and their students are invited to take part in an exclusive conversation with Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), the youngest member of Congress and first member of Generation Z to serve.

Join us in updating the public profiles of scholars doing critical work at the Women in Social & Behavioral Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Participants can join in the editing virtually or in person in Washington, DC or London.  

Join us for an online roundtable discussion that will explore how to diversify knowledge production in an academic environment that often excludes and diminishes voices of color.

Torsten will focus on the immediate cost of living crisis, and the background for the country experiencing it: a living standards stagnation stretching back well over a decade. He will reflect on the role social science has played in recognising, understanding and solving these related but distinct developments.

The evidence-based policymaking movement has grown substantially over the past 25 years. Notwithstanding, there remain practical, methodological, and economic limitations to evidence-informed policymaking that must be addressed.

This Webinar, led by Professor and SAGE author Michàlle Mor Barak, focuses on the advantages of applying a global lens to teaching diversity, equity and inclusion.

An event exploring the urgent need to combine both social and technological solutions in order to address the challenges of climate change.

In this webinar, Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke will explore common challenges in thematic analysis (TA) research, how to avoid them – and even how to rework your analysis if necessary.

To celebrate Pride Month, we are holding a virtual panel on Monday, June 27th at 5PM (BST) to celebrate and recognize expressions of LGBTQIA+ joy.

With expertise from diverse perspectives, panelists will discuss the vital place that self, community, art, and media play for the LGBTQIA+ community and allies. Some of the key themes we’ll be covering in the event include:

• Expressions of LGBTQIA+ joy in culture, art, and media

• Fostering peer-to-peer support and volunteer work

• Building love and joy within a community that often experiences discrimination and violence

In this episode, join Mark Peterson as he explores the sustainability practices that benefit companies, consumers and stakeholders holistically, and considers how this sustainable and macro mindset can be fully embedded in marketing pedagogy. Peterson will dissect the role faculty can play to encourage their students’ interest when teaching sustainable marketing. To help with this, he will also be discussing his textbook, Sustainable Marketing: A Holistic Approach, now in its second edition.

4:00PM BST / 11:00 AM EDT / 8:00AM PDT

An eclectic mix of disciplines and research methodologies is crucial for theorising socio-economic, political, cultural, and religious domains. However, in a refreshed take on an old problematic, in a commitment to ‘post-colonial’ and ‘de-colonial’ frames, this lecture proposes these border crossings create opportunities for focusing a critical lens on existing disciplinary conceptual frameworks and methodologies.

In this session, we’ll show you how you can extract and assimilate key information in a more systematic way and critically analyse the text by easily identifying how the author positions their work in relation to previous studies, what the key findings of any cited studies are, and other indicators of the quality of the research.

In this conversational panel discussion, librarians from the US and Europe discuss big questions about the role and value of the modern librarian in a digital age and how to meet patrons at their time of need.

Our talks will cover both the practical things that therapists can do, for instance working with war traumatised clients; challenging racism and a Eurocentric view of the world; and more theoretical explorations of the links between therapeutic ideas and conflict resolution practices.

This webinar will offer global perspectives about how to think through cultural issues at the research design stage. The cultural context is essential for researchers whether you are studying your own community or others’ communities.

SAGE Publishing, in collaboration with The Conversation and the Campaign for Social Science, is hosting an exciting panel event to celebrate LGBTQIA+ History Month in the UK.

In this session, we provide an overview of methods and research used to study online networks of political discussion on social media (Twitter, Hyperlinks, Reddit), using data collected with the VOSON Lab suite of open-source R tools: vosonSML, VOSON Dashboard and voson.tcn.

This session will show how to do Constant Comparative Analysis and Grounded Theory for teams of researchers small and large, and working together in real time with the simple qualitative data analysis software, Quirkos.