Prologue: The Method and its Pitfalls

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Bobek
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Data Distortion

The chapter sets out the research design and questions for the case studies in the second part of the book. It discusses what is being examined with respect to all the systems studied and how it is achieved. Furthermore, problems encountered in doing empirical research into case law and judicial behaviour are acknowledged and the degree of potential data distortion caused by them discussed.

Museum Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 516-537
Author(s):  
Erica L. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Museum Visitors ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Data Analyses

This chapter describes and discusses the major qualitative research methods used to study museums. These methods include analyses of visual displays and reconstructions; interviews with museum visitors, professionals, and stakeholders; as well as ethnographic fieldwork in museum settings. The chapter explores how these methods can be adapted to the study of exhibits, galleries, programs, and museums as knowledge-generating institutions from a range of case studies conducted by museum practitioners, anthropologists, historians, and other museum studies scholars at a variety of museums. Case studies are drawn from works that examine ethnographic, natural history, art and community museums as well as historic sites. Approaches to research design, data analyses, and writing up are also examined.

scholarly journals Obstacles in Implementing of Tourist Guide Policy: License for Tourist Guides in Bali Province

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadek Rianita Indah Pratiwi ◽  
I Gede Eko Putra Sri Sentanu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Legal Sanctions ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Tourist Guides

The existence of tourist guides in the Bali Province area is regulated by the Bali Provincial Government regarding licenses for tourist guides. However, the implementation of this policy still causes problems such as the problem is the lack of availability of licensed tourist guides compared to the number of tourist visits to Bali Province and still find the practice of tourist guides without a license. This study aims to analyze the factors that hinder the policy of implementing licenses for this tourist guide. The research design was carried out by analyzing case studies through a qualitative approach. The results of the study showed that there were factors that had become obstacles in the licensing policy for tourist guides in Bali Province. Several factors were found, namely the benefits of policy, information, supervision, legal sanctions and social conditions.

The Relevance of the Network Approach to European Case Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-124
Author(s):  
Urška Šadl ◽  
Fabien Tarissan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Legal Discourse ◽  
Citation Network ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
The Law

The chapter argues that the network approach is a viable methodology in legal empirical research, which can be used to study the case law of the Court of Justice. To demonstrate this potential, the chapter: first, shows how to obtain detailed information about the law from the citation network; second, it illustrates how to assess the legal relevance of cases by looking at case citations; and, third, it explores how to infer the doctrinal influence of selected landmark cases. All examples adapt different citation network tools to the study of legal structures and legal discourse which can focus, frame, support, and guide doctrinal analysis.

scholarly journals The state of heritage and cultural property policing in England & Wales, France and Italy

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Economies

Presenting a large threat to irreplaceable heritage, property, cultural knowledge and cultural economies across the world, heritage and cultural property crimes offer case studies through which to consider the challenges, choices and practices that shape 21st-century policing. This article uses empirical research conducted in England & Wales, France and Italy to examine heritage and cultural property policing. It considers the threat before investigating three crucial questions. First, who is involved in this policing? Second, how are they involved in this policing? Third, why are they involved? This last question is the most important and is central to the article as it examines why, in an era of severe economic challenges for the governments in the case studies, the public sector would choose to lead policing.

Empirical Research into Students’ Mobile Phones and their Use for Learning

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Bradley ◽  
Debbie Holley
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
First Year ◽  
Education Students ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Depth Study

This paper reports on empirical research conducted to find out about higher education students’ mobile phone ownership, and the ways in which they are using their mobiles for learning. A survey with a group of first-year students has been followed up by an in-depth study, in which three students were lent Flip Video Camcorders to capture their mobile learning activities and were interviewed to discover more about their practice. The video footage and interview data have been compiled into three rich case studies which help us to better understand students’ practice and attitudes towards mobile learning. The paper focuses on the survey data and the three case studies, which were analysed using grounded theory. The outcomes of this research can inform the work of educators seeking to design effective mobile learning activities that build on existing student practice and extend mobile learning within the blend of learning activities that we offer students.

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