Research methods are a compulsory component of many undergraduate programmes. But it is challenging to design good questions for assessing students’ understanding of research methods in closed book ...

Carrying out research requires a degree of self-motivation. If the topic that you have chosen to study is neither interesting nor important to you, then it seems likely that you will become ...

Focus Your Research: It narrows down a broad topic into a specific area of inquiry. Guide Your Methodology: It determines the type of data you need and how you will collect it. Provide Clarity: It ...

Questions about the origin and nature of Earth and the life on it have long preoccupied human thought and the scientific endeavor. Deciphering the planet's history and processes could improve the ...

As a researcher who has used a wide variety of methodologies, I understand the importance of acknowledging that we, as researchers, do not pick the methodology; rather, the research question dictates ...

The Arctic in the Anthropocene reviews research questions previously identified by Arctic researchers, and then highlights the new questions that have emerged in the wake of and expectation of further ...

To bring teams together well, you’ve got to meet well, and to help those teams succeed, you’ve got to make good decisions during those meetings. Dozens of decision-making frameworks and techniques ...