SAGE Publishing collaborated with the Nuffield Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), to launch SAGE Research Methods Teaching, a platform specifically designed for social science lecturers to find and share teaching materials, thus inspiring academicswho are teaching quantitative methods courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level.This exciting new partnership showcases the outputs of a £19.5m investment made by ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) that was designed to deliver a step-change in undergraduate quantitative skills teaching. This is known as Q-Step.
The new platform is an important route through which the benefits of Q-Step can now be shared with the broader research community, ensuring the valuable resources will be free and open for reuse by faculty around the world. Designed with extensive input from faculty and lecturers in the Q-Step Centres, SAGE Research Methods Teaching includes resources for teaching topics including data analytics, modeling, and descriptive statistics materials, including slide decks, lecture notes, and activities. The resource is designed to grow over time and become a forum through which researchers can share their teaching materials and build networks of support in teaching quantitative methods. It will promote pedagogical development and innovation, and ultimately strengthen the quality of teaching and the student experience, improving learning outcomes across the social science community.
More information about this partnership and SAGE Research Methods Teaching can be found here.