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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I decided what to do with my life based on reading descriptions of psychology research written for normal, curious people who had no training in the subject. I remember reading Malcolm Gladwell’s ...

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 ...

A recent Google research paper on Long Form Question Answering illustrates how difficult it is to answer questions that need longer and nuanced answers. While the researchers were able to improve the ...