Hema Thakur

Associate Editor, Humanities, Editage

Passionate about helping ESL authors and students publish quality research, which motivated her to teach and develop content for them.

Short on time, big on insight: mixed methods and order for short-term research

Here I summarize my research paper. The purpose is to help guide researchers aiming to conduct short-term research for feasibility and as a rapid response to policy shifts or crises. My findings indicate that a blend of quantitative, qualitative, and survey methods provides sufficient depth to inform meaningful conclusions.

Tips to cure a researcher’s block: Let the words and inspiration flow!

As an academic, experiencing creative and motivational blocks is commonplace. The good news is that there’s more than one way to deal with them. In this article, we've listed techniques you can use to ward off your researcher's block.

5 Tips for academic writing, poetry style

Our guest authors are passionate about research and its communication – so passionate that they turn into composers! Here’s a short poem on academic writing from one of our guest authors that shares some tips to help you create a well-written manuscript.

Have you looked beyond publishing your paper? A perspective on reproducible research

A published paper is not the end, but a means to the larger picture – the actual research itself – which is broader in scope than the paper. This post talks about the how the propositions in research do not cease to exist once a theory is supported or when a paper is published and how researchers can ensure that their work can be replicated.