Satisfying Competing Stakeholder Needs in a Depression Awareness Project

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthea Rutter ◽  
Maggie McGuiness ◽  
Suresh Sundram ◽  
Wayne Chamley ◽  
Kylee Bellingham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Major Depression ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Stakeholder Needs

The Depression Awareness Research Project was funded to develop, implement and evaluate a community-focused model designed to raise awareness of major depression1. It was piloted in five locations in Victoria from 2001-2004. This paper presents the findings of an analysis of qualitative data collected from a variety of stakeholders during and after the project.

scholarly journals Mixed or Complementary Messages: Making the Most of Unexpected Assessment Results

2016 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil Jones ◽  
Julia Bauder ◽  
Kevin Engel
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Research Literacy ◽  
Initial Results

Grinnell College participated in ACRL’s first cohort of Assessment in Action (AiA), undertaking a mixed-methods action research project to assess the effectiveness of librarian-led research literacy sessions in improving students’ research skills. The quantitative data showed that the quality of students’ sources did not markedly improve following a research literacy session, while the qualitative data indicated that many students were able to state and describe important research concepts they learned. This article profiles the development of Grinnell’s AiA project and discusses how Grinnell’s librarians responded when the initial results led to more questions rather than to satisfactory answers.

scholarly journals Using Clustering as a Tool: Mixed Methods in Qualitative Data Analysis

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Macia
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Similarity Measures ◽  
Cluster Solution ◽  
Clustering Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Detailed Explanation

In this article I discuss cluster analysis as an exploratory tool to support the identification of associations within qualitative data. While not appropriate for all qualitative projects, cluster analysis can be particularly helpful in identifying patterns where numerous cases are studied. I use as illustration a research project on Latino grievances to offer a detailed explanation of the main steps in cluster analysis, providing specific considerations for its use with qualitative data. I specifically describe the issues of data transformation, the choice of clustering methods and similarity measures, the identification of a cluster solution, and the interpretation of the data in a qualitative context.

scholarly journals Research materials from qualitative fieldwork in Japan, 2013 – Vol. 2

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Marco Pellitteri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Original Source ◽  
The Future

Among the possible innovative ways to publish research data and materials—alongside the more established formats of the research paper, the academic article, and the critical review—we inaugurate here the format of the “Research Files”, batches of qualitative data which have been assessed as useful materials for other scholars. A certain amount of data which academics collect often remains underused. But such data, if contextualised within one’s own past research activity, can be kept “alive” and perhaps be reborn and virtuously transmitted to other researchers who may want to make some use of them, citing the original source and therefore generating a proficuous circle of knowledge. We decided to distribute a few of these materials over different issues of Mutual Images, grouping them by type. In this first instalment (presenting some early interviews from one of my own past projects), we are also suggesting a way to interpret the notion of “research files” for other scholars who in the future may want to experiment with it. The format of presentation we have thought of as appropriate—or, at least, admissible and functional—is that of recounting the general features of the original research project within which the data here published were produced, so to favour the circulation of ideas.

scholarly journals Contextualising the Research Process: Using Interviewer Notes in the Secondary Analysis of Qualitative Data

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Goodwin ◽  
Henrietta O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Youth Transitions

In this paper we argue that for the secondary analysis of qualitative data to be effective, researchers need to subject any accompanying interviewer notes to the secondary analysis process. The secondary analysis of interviewer notes can provide important insight into the research process and the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of those collecting the data. Such information is essential if meaningful analyses are to be offered. Using interviewer notes from a little known research project on youth transitions form the 1960s, this paper explores how the interviewers’ experiences of the research process and their perceptions are documented in the interviewer notes.

scholarly journals Krisis in pastoriee

1997 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kobus Van Biljon
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Church

Crisis in the manse. In a pilot study, 72 ministers and their wives were interviewed in focus groups to determine why ministers leave the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika. Utilising the qualitative data of this research project could in future facilitate the formulation of effective strategies to create a salutogenit culture in the church.

scholarly journals TESTA@Greenwich - engaging students in feedback and assessment

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Project ◽  
The University

TESTA@Greenwich is a research project looking into assessment and feedback at the University of Greenwich. The central mission of the project is to use both quantitative and qualitative data, collected by students and coming directly from students and staff, to improve assessment and feedback at the programme level.

scholarly journals Research materials from fieldwork in Japan, 2013

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-50
Author(s):  
Marco Pellitteri
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Original Source ◽  
The Future

Among the possible innovative ways to publish research data and materials—alongside the more established formats of the research paper, the academic article, and the critical review—we inaugurate here the format of the “Research Files”, batches of qualitative data which have been assessed as useful materials for other scholars. A certain amount of data which academics collect often remains underused. But such data, if contextualised within one’s own past research activity, can be kept “alive” and perhaps be reborn and virtuously transmitted to other researchers who may want to make some use of them, citing the original source and therefore generating a proficuous circle of knowledge. We decided to distribute a few of these materials over different issues of Mutual Images, grouping them by type. In this first instalment (presenting some early interviews from one of my own past projects), we are also suggesting a way to interpret the notion of “research files” for other scholars who in the future may want to experiment with it. The format of presentation we have thought of as appropriate—or, at least, admissible and functional—is that of recounting the general features of the original research project within which the data here published were produced, so to favour the circulation of ideas.

How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Clark ◽  
Liam Foster ◽  
Alan Bryman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Project Idea

How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation looks to help readers to navigate research for a project or dissertation. It starts with an introduction to the research process and how to get started. It examines the process of developing an idea. It reviews the available literature. It then considers how to build upon the project idea, the ethical issues, and how to write a proposal. Next it considers sampling, and collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. Finally, it describes how to evaluate the project and the process of writing up.

The sociology classroom as a pedagogical site of discomfort: Difficult knowledge and the emotional dynamics of teaching and learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Sociological Knowledge ◽  
Dimensions Of Teaching ◽  
Theoretical Considerations ◽  
Affective Dimensions

While recent years have witnessed a growing recognition of the importance of attending to the complex affective dimensions of teaching and learning, emotion remains under-researched and under-theorised as an aspect of education. This paper explores what it means to engage with emotionality in the classroom, particularly in terms of how difficult (sociological) knowledge is experienced, felt and understood by learners, i.e. how they are affected by knowledge that is historically or socially traumatic and hence difficult to bear. Drawing on qualitative data gathered as part of an action research project undertaken during a postgraduate course on globalisation, it offers insights into how course participants felt, experienced and engaged with difficult knowledge about their participation in harmful global economic institutions and practices. The paper concludes by considering some of the theoretical considerations and pedagogical conditions that are necessary if we are to engage learners with difficult (sociological) knowledge which asks them to contemplate how they are implicated in their learning.

scholarly journals Explaining Macro-Social Change with Archived Data: Reading against the Grain

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Jane Gray
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Family Change ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Methodological Challenges ◽  
Data Reading ◽  
Archived Data

This article examines some of the opportunities and challenges associated with using archived qualitative data to explain macro-social change through a biographical lens. Using examples from a recent research project on family change in Ireland, I show how working across qualitative datasets provided opportunities for generating new explanations of social change by ‘reading against the grain’ of established social science narratives and tracing innovation in social practices. I also discuss some of the methodological challenges associated with working across datasets and how we addressed them in the study.

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