Before beginning your research

• Is your proposal coherent?
• Have you made sure you have the resources, including your own time, to do the work?
• Have you done an adequate risk assessment and put in place any precautions necessary?
• Have you outlined and dealt with any ethical issues which might arise in the research? See SRM's Project Planner on Research Ethics
• Have you a timetable worked out for getting the job done? See SRM Project Planner "What Do I Need to Know About Time and Timetabling"

During the research phase  

• Are you keeping to your timetable? 
• Are you maintaining adequate records of the results of all research processes? See SRM Project Planner on Data Collection
• Are you backing those records up in triplicate at least?
• Are you writing up as you go along? See SRM Project Planner on Data Analysis and Interpretation and SPH Writing Support Services: Writing in the Sciences

Writing up your research

• Are you keeping to your writing-up timetable?
• Are you backing up all written material in triplicate?
• Are you ensuring that your written work reads well as a whole? See SRM Project Planner on Writing Up and SPH Writing Support Services: Writing in the Sciences

Once your research project is complete

• Do you have a dissemination plan in place? See SRM Project Planner on Dissemination and SPH Writing Support Services: Publishing in the Sciences 
• Are you getting the work out there in the way that you had intended?
• Do you know what you want to do next?
• Do you have a plan for doing that?

Postic, R., & Prough, E. (2019). Constructing and administering an original survey to measure support for gay marriage. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781526486981 Methods: Research questions

Hopper, J. S. (2019). A mixed-methods approach to analyzing environmental enforcement in the American States. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781526465290    Methods :  Qualitative data analysis

de Motte, C. (2014). A mixed-methods approach to explore the quality of life and experiences of older male prisoners in HMPS. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781446273050135000   Methods :  Mixed methods

Berger, R. (2017). Conducting research under the radar: Using a case study for studying populations off the social mainstream. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/978152641164  Methods :  Case study research

Samanta, J., & Samanta, A. (2018). A focus group content analysis study exploring cultural and faith based values at end of life. SAGE Research Methods Cases. Methods: Focus groups

Willoughby, J., Brickman, J., Niu, Z., & Liu, S. (2017). Focus groups and experiments for health message development: Creating a text message program for college women about alcohol and hook-ups. SAGE Research Methods Cases. Methods: Pilot studies, Focus groups

Snyder, K., Schaffer, C., Lee, J., & Dinkel, D. (2018). Brain blasters: An intervention to improve the utilization of classroom physical activity. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781526450203 Methods :  Data collection

Griffiths, M., & Dhuffar, M. (2014). Collecting behavioural addiction treatment data using freedom of information requests. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/978144627305014533925 Methods :  Data collection

Backstrom, L. (2018). Accomplishing empathy: An ethnography of a children’s weight loss camp. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781526427403   Methods :  Fieldwork

Limjerwala, S. (2018). Conducting research on sexual violence in Gujarat, India: An argument in favor of ethnography. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781526445544  Methods :  Fieldwork

Fennell, J. (2018). Coed naked: Insider ethnography in the BDSM subculture. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781526447067 Methods :  Ethnography

Shaw, J., Welch, A., Williamson, M., & Mitchell, C. (2018). Developing a systematic literature review on the use of social media as a health intervention in adolescent health: A case study. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/9781526444424  Methods :  Systematic review

Petrosino, A., Morgan, C., Fronius, T., Tanner-Smith, E., & Boruch, R. (2014). Dropout prevention studies in developing countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. SAGE Research Methods Cases.doi:10.4135/978144627305013510256  Methods :  Effect size, Systematic review, Meta-analysis

The Odum Institute. (2015). Learn about simple regression in SPSS with data from the global health observatory data (2012). London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781473948174  Software Guide: SPSS

Shi, F., & The Odum Institute. (2019). Learn about time series plot with fitted lines in SPSS with data from EPA’s air quality system data mart (2017). London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781526473172 Software Guide: SPSS

Shi, F., & The Odum Institute. (2019). Learn about single mean t-test in SPSS with data from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system (2015). London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781526473189

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Podcasts:

Podcasts present in-depth discussions which explore stories from the field, the challenges of social science research, and how we can understand the social world.

Alkire, S. (2017). Sabina alkire on measuring poverty [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from SAGE Research Methods Methods :  Methodology

Bohnet, I. (2016). Iris bohnet on discrimination and design [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from SAGE Research Methods. Methods :  Big data