Research Skills and Processes: lecture notes

[Jane Seale]

14.11.06

·       Exercise:

Research previous experience

1.        What went well?

1.1.  Strengths

1.2.   Opportunities

2.        What didn’t go so well?

2.1.  Weaknesses

2.2.  Threads

·       Conducting a research

·       Being a research participant

* See Bb

* The responsability of ethics lies on your supervisor

* Pearce (1993): See handout

* Research is an on going process of negotiating

* Negotiations within the resear process are about relationships

* A sample bigger than 30 interviewees isn’t practical

* SoE guidelines (page 77 of the handbook)

* Anonymity and confidentiality

* ESRC research framework (search)

* Complexity of ethics: Whatever you do, make sure you justified what you’ve done.

* Making decisions about ethics:

– BERA (reference the two frameworks BERA + ESRC)

* Checklist is the step one

* The step two is writing a protocol

Note: See the whole thing in the Bb.