Dr. Hannah White, Director and CEO of Institute for Government, will deliver this year’s lecture at an in-person event taking place in London on Monday November 18, 2024.
As book bans and academic censorship escalate across the United States, this panel gathers experts to discuss the impact these bans have on current and future generations of learners. Panelists will address the necessary support that teachers, librarians, and other educators need in these uncertain times. Join us to find out what we can do to withstand and to even reverse this trend.
Start: 8 AM, PST / 11 AM, EST / 4 PM, BST
End: 9 AM, PST / 12 PM, EST / 5 PM, BST
Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul has adapted the #1 NYT Best Seller, Stamped (For Kids) and has written several books for educators to support reading and writing instruction. An educator with more than 20-years of classroom experience, she is currently the founder of Red Clay Educators, co-director of the Institute for Racial Equity in Literacy, co-director of the Teach Black History All Year Institute, and executive producer and host of The Black Creators Series. Sonja provides professional development for schools and organizations in equity and antiracism. Her new book is Antiracist Reading Revolution: A Framework for Teaching Beyond Representation Toward Liberation (Spring 2024, Corwin). Visit her online at sonjacherrypaul.com.
Christina Vortia is the Chief Librarian at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, the world's leading repository on the global Black experience, and the African Studies, African American Studies, and History Subject Liaison for Founders Library. Christina is a librarian, educator, and literature analyst committed to Black diasporan literary traditions and print culture. She has served on the 2020/2021 LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, the 2019/2020 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Committee, the 2017 Michael L. Printz Award Committee, and the 2017 Florida Author's and Publisher's Association Book Awards Committee. She has been a contributor to the popular literary website Book Riot. Christina served as Chair of the 2023 Newbery Committee and is a juror on the 2025/2026 Coretta Scott King Book Awards Jury. Christina reviews children's and young adult literature at Kirkus and Black Cotton Reviewers. She also is the creator of the blog HypeLit.com.
Lee Wind is the co-creator (along with Tasslyn Magnusson) of the We Are Stronger Than Censorship program, which aims to empower both readers and the publishing industry at large with a response to the surge in book banning that is positive, proactive, grassroots, and community-based. Lee is the Chief Content Officer of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), and an author of frequently challenged books like the nonfiction for readers age 11 and up No Way, They Were Gay? Hidden Lives and Secret Loves (published by Lerner, an independent publisher.) Learn more about We Are Stronger Than Censorship and how you can help at wearestrongerthancensorship.org.
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.
As book bans continue to rise across the United States and challenges to academic freedom grow at an alarming rate, this webinar brings together researchers and scholars who will share their experiences and discuss the support that is needed in education across the country. This webinar will highlight the realities we face, but also plot a map to possible solutions.
Start: 8 AM, PST / 11 AM, EST / 4 PM, BST
End: 9 AM, PST / 12 PM, EST / 5 PM, BST
Pengfei Zhao has an interdisciplinary background in inquiry methodology, sociology, and cultural studies. In her theoretical and methodological work, she draws from a wide spectrum of theories—from critical theories to contemporary pragmatism, feminism, and post-colonial studies—to formulate a praxis- and social justice-oriented qualitative research methodology. She develops scholarship on critical ethnography, feminist and narrative methodology, participatory action research, and mixed methods studies, and addresses key methodological issues in the tradition of critical qualitative methodologies such as validity, ethics, and translation. Her writing responds to the ontological, epistemological, ethical, and methodological challenges of conducting qualitative research in a politically troubled and culturally diverse contemporary world.
Dr. Renee Moran is an Associate Professor of Literacy in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at East Tennessee State University and serves as Co-coordinator of the Master's of Reading Program. Prior to entering academia, she taught for a decade in the public schools of California and North Carolina in K-5 classrooms. Her research interests include using qualitative methodologies to better understand the integration of science, literacy, and computation and the impact of policy on teacher decision making.
Natalia Ward is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the East Tennessee State University. Her focus is on preparing teachers to work with multilingual students and to effectively teach literacy. Previously, she taught English as a Second Language and English as a Foreign Language in the United States and Russia. Her research interests include equitable literacy education and assessment for multilingual learners, online synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning, and education policy enactment in local contexts.
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.
A decade ago, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, or DORA, tackled the pressing need to improve how funders, institutions, policy makers and others evaluated scientific research and its outputs. Existing measures, centered on scholarly citation, tended to use where the outputs were published as a proxy for the research’s quality, utility, and impact, measuring all disciplines with the same yardstick.
In the 10 years since, various efforts to improve assessment and measure societal impact have launched that downplay or even eliminate literature-based measurements. Ideas for these new measures focus on impact in the real world, address disciplinary differences such as those between social science and physical science, and offer useful tools for researchers and end-users alike.
This panel will engage representatives of various social and behavioral science disciplines, as well as publishers, to discuss:
What does impact assessment look like from their perch?
What should it look like?
How have their perspectives on impact changed over the last decade?
What changes would they like to see 10 years from now?
What necessary next steps should be taken – whether immediately practical or aspirational?
Anna Harvey, President at the Social Science Research Council; Professor of Politics, Data Science, and Law and Director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University
Anthony Michel, Senior Policy Advisor to the Vice-President of Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Cassidy Sugimoto, Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology
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, speakers will discuss the role of the higher ed community in supporting intellectual freedom.
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.
SAGE Publishing’s Third Annual Critical Thinking Bootcamp offers insights, guidance, and resources to help librarians and professors encourage critical thinking in and out of the classroom. Join our free, virtual sessions to find ways to recognize and address the impact of tech trends on our media ecosystem and learn tactics that can be used by librarians, professors, and other staff to educate students.
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.
