Research as Craft

A newsletter and community about how we can grow and improve as researchers.

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Research as Craft is a newsletter and community about how we can grow and improve as researchers. 🌱

We share ideas, resources, tools and more to support people who do research - whether in industry, policy, academia, activism or elsewhere. ✏️ Sign up: https://t.co/dcItkOlXvx

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We're sending our Valentine's to some of our favourite research projects – from fascinating methods, to amazing research storytelling – that have helped us grow as researchers.

6 research projects we 💖 (and have learnt a lot from:) https://t.co/g3ZquCStG6

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Growing our research methods reading list this week with this resource collection on shifting towards less extractive research methods and trama-centred work in design and research from @sahibzadamayed 📚👀

https://t.co/y01WplEoJY

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Our latest issue - 'Build-a-bibliography' - hit inboxes on Friday 📨

It's all about how to create a process for collecting, organising, reading and referencing research papers.

Read it yourself with the link above ⬆️📚

And subscribe to RaC here: https://t.co/ebFjcdwBcu

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A researcher I know wrote a lengthy dissertation, some 20,000 words, which included load of references and footnotes.

“What referencing software did you use?” I asked her

“What’s that?” She replied

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If only she'd read issue #6 of Research as Craft ➡️ https://t.co/jHKDlypqf1

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It’s time for Research 101! 📚

As in, we’ve just hit 101 subscribers to our newsletter! 🎉

Join us in thinking about how we learn and grow as researchers, or tell your (nerdy) friends ⬇️

https://t.co/Fn3gaIHiKu

[Jenny Brennan @jennyhbren]

Are PDFs are constraining our research?

They can limit who it reaches, and shape how we even *think* about research.

Five alternatives I've been inspired by in the latest @ResearchAsCraft newsletter 🧵

[Skye @sketch_skye]

LOVED the latest @ResearchAsCraft! I would ♥ to join the PDF rebellion. I am weary of doing PDF accessibility checks knowing it will still not be truly #accessible. I look forward to exploring alternatives, especially ones that don't need us to host content on our own platforms.

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Research as Craft is a newsletter and community about how we can grow and improve as researchers. 🌱

We share ideas, resources, tools and more to support people who do research - whether in industry, policy, academia, activism or elsewhere. ✏️ Sign up: https://t.co/Fn3gaIp9wm

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Thinking about how to have impact with your research? 💫

Planning to publish a PDF? 📄

This week's Research as Craft asks why PDFs are our default research output, and explores ideas of what we could be making instead ⬇️
https://t.co/HGHJJ7u9ak

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👀📚 New book recommendations on interviewing, participant observation, and other qualitative methods and how to evaluate them ⬇️

[Dr. Ashley T. Rubin @ashleytrubin]

Okay, I've been wanting to write this thread for a while and the final piece just came out so:

2020-2022 has been a banger time for new qualitative methods books. Here's a thread of some great new books!

[Caitlin Hafferty @CaitlinHafferty]

Doing #qualitative research using #online methods? 🤔💻 I thought I'd share 10 papers/books which I've found really useful during my PhD - a thread! 🧵1/?

Feel free to add to the list! #PhD #research #PhDlife #phdvoice #phdchat #AcademicChatter #ResearchMethods #OnlineMethods

[Aidan Peppin @AidanPeppin]

Research objectives help keep projects focused and on track.

Read the latest issue of @ResearchAsCraft newsletter for some ideas and lessons we've learned about using Objectives and Key Results in our research projects!

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How do you set and track the goals of your research? 🎯

We've been exploring 'Objectives and Key Results' (OKRs) as a framework for thinking what we hope to acheive with our research, and how we'll acheive it.

Read our top tips in the latest issue ✅ https://t.co/O0A1rVZhzk

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As usual, we'd love to know what you think! Have you tried OKRs in your own research? What other objectives or goals frameworks do you use?

And what should we cover in our next issue? Tweet us, DM us or email us! ✉️ 🐦

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As always, we want to hear your thoughts! What writing tips and tools do you use? What’s the best example of research writing you’ve come across? Hit reply and tell us!

And, as we're still growing, we'd love it if you can retweet to help us build the RaC community! 🙏

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Last week we published Issue 3⃣!

This one looks at fundamental skill for all researchers: writing ✏️

Whether it's drafting the final research report, or nailing the everyday email, this issue has 2 concepts and 7 ideas to help us write right.

https://t.co/8BLdGI1PF1

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