Model of Mitigation: Strategies to Utilise Unique Insider Research Opportunities

Insider research has in the past challenged researchers in terms of blurred lines, objectivity, bias confidentiality and maintaining professional working relationships. The opportunities it presents however include access to information, trust in the data collection, insider and intimate knowledge, and the ability for rich inside data collection. This paper discusses these opportunities and challenges, then makes recommendations for ten strategies to assist in data collection by an insider researcher. These strategies include communication, mixed methods, reflections, debrief, distance, confidentiality, interview technique, social network, voluntary and objectivity. The research concludes with the creation of a Model of Mitigation, which posits the ten mitigation strategies along with the four opportunities to assist insider researchers to overcome obstacles when conducting insider research, as insider research has been shown to collect rich data and enable organisations to reflect on the research findings and to implement recommendations made on an individual but organisation wide basis.

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Against the flow in data collection: How data triangulation combined with a ‘slow’ interview technique enriches data

Qualitative Social Work ◽

10.1177/1473325017712581 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 179-193 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Nina Jentoft ◽

Torunn S Olsen

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Current Flow ◽

Good Method ◽

Research Community ◽

Research Approach ◽

Interview Technique ◽

Vulnerable People ◽

Rich Data ◽

Depth Interviews

Capturing the voices of the ‘disadvantaged’ in society may often be difficult to achieve. In this article, we argue that the combination of data triangulation and a ‘slow’ interview technique may be a good method when the target group is vulnerable people who may find the interview challenging. Data triangulation can reveal a social phenomenon’s complexity by providing a fuller picture, while in-depth interviews and a ‘slow’ interview technique can enhance data quality. We present an alternative to what we perceive as being dominant and tacit support for use of voice recordings in interview-based studies, thus our research approach goes against the current flow in the research community. In the absence of a voice recording, the quality of the interview can be assured through cooperation between the researcher and the informant. We also discuss the importance of establishing trust when meeting the informant in order to ensure rich data.

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The past, present and future of food consumption databases

Orvosi Hetilap ◽

10.1556/oh.2012.29475 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 153 (43) ◽

pp. 1692-1700

Author(s):

Viktória Szűcs ◽

Erzsébet Szabó ◽

Diána Bánáti

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Food Consumption ◽

Age Groups ◽

Collection Method ◽

The Past ◽

Consumption Data ◽

Food Consumption Data ◽

International Projects ◽

Collection Methods ◽

The Eu

Results of the food consumption surveys are utilized in many areas, such as for example risk assessment, cognition of consumer trends, health education and planning of prevention projects. Standardization of national consumption data for international comparison is an important task. The intention work began in the 1970s. Because of the widespread utilization of food consumption data, many international projects have been done with the aim of their harmonization. The present study shows data collection methods for groups of the food consumption data, their utilization, furthermore, the stations of the international harmonization works in details. The authors underline that for the application of the food consumption data on the international level, it is crucial to harmonize the surveys’ parameters (e.g. time of data collection, method, number of participants, number of the analysed days and the age groups). For this purpose the efforts of the EU menu project, started in 2012, are promising. Orv. Hetil., 2012, 153, 1692–1700.

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Macedonia Faculties’ Students - “Chrisi Avgi” (Right Party) Followers’ Critique on the Greek Educational Policy

Studies of Changing Societies ◽

10.2478/scs-2014-0172 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2013 (1) ◽

pp. 3-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kalerante Evagelia

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Educational Policy ◽

Educational System ◽

Political Party ◽

Moral Values ◽

Political Issues ◽

The Past ◽

Research Findings ◽

History Books

AbstractThe present paper is involved with the Pedagogical faculties’ students’ critique on the current educational system as it has been altered after 1981. The research was carried out utilizing both quantitative and qualitative tools. Students-voters participated in the interviews whereas active voters were difficult to be located to meet the research requirements. The dynamics of the specific political party is based on a popular profile in terms of standpoints related to economic, social and political issues. The research findings depict the students’ strong wish for a change of the curricula and a turn towards History and Religion as well as an elevation of the Greek historic events, as the History books that have been written and taught at schools over the past years contributed to the downgrading of the Greek national and cultural identity. There is also a students’ strong belief that globalization and the immigrants’ presence in Greece have functioned in a negative way against the Greek ideal. Therefore, an overall change of the educational content could open the path towards the reconstruction of the moral values and the Greek national identity.

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Analysis of the Nascar Hall of Fame Exhibition Event: A Generation-Based Market Segmentation Approach

Event Management ◽

10.3727/152599518x15403853721312 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 913-926

Author(s):

Kakyom Kim ◽

Giri Jogaratnam

Keyword(s):

Generation X ◽

Market Segmentation ◽

Generation Y ◽

Generational Differences ◽

The Past ◽

The Us ◽

Segmentation Approach ◽

Research Findings ◽

Hall Of Fame ◽

Southeastern Region

Research findings on generations have been becoming useful for event organizers and destination developers over the past decades. The current study investigated generational differences in exhibition dimensions, satisfaction, and future intentions along with trip characteristics of visitors to the NASCAR Hall of Fame Exhibition event held in a medium-sized city in the southeastern region of the US. Analysis confirmed the existence of six exhibition dimensions labeled as "exhibits," "staff," "facility," "concessions," "audio tours," and "hard cards" on the event. As part of the most substantial results, there were both dissimilarities and similarities in the exhibition dimensions across four generations including "Matures," "Baby Boomers," "Generation X," and "Generation Y." Analysis also suggested significant differences in exhibition visitors' overall satisfaction, future intentions, and trip characteristics across the generations. Some useful implications are discussed for exhibition event managers and organizers.

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Costing interventions in the field: preliminary cost estimates and lessons learned from an evaluation of community-wide mass drug administration for elimination of soil-transmitted helminths in the DeWorm3 trial

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049734 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. e049734

Author(s):

Katya Galactionova ◽

Maitreyi Sahu ◽

Samuel Paul Gideon ◽

Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan ◽

Chloe Morozoff ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Drug Administration ◽

Financial Reporting ◽

Mass Drug Administration ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Secondary Outcome ◽

Data Quality Control ◽

Soil Transmitted Helminths ◽

Trade Offs ◽

Rich Data

ObjectiveTo present a costing study integrated within the DeWorm3 multi-country field trial of community-wide mass drug administration (cMDA) for elimination of soil-transmitted helminths.DesignTailored data collection instruments covering resource use, expenditure and operational details were developed for each site. These were populated alongside field activities by on-site staff. Data quality control and validation processes were established. Programmed routines were used to clean, standardise and analyse data to derive costs of cMDA and supportive activities.SettingField site and collaborating research institutions.Primary and secondary outcome measuresA strategy for costing interventions in parallel with field activities was discussed. Interim estimates of cMDA costs obtained with the strategy were presented for one of the trial sites.ResultsThe study demonstrated that it was both feasible and advantageous to collect data alongside field activities. Practical decisions on implementing the strategy and the trade-offs involved varied by site; trialists and local partners were key to tailoring data collection to the technical and operational realities in the field. The strategy capitalised on the established processes for routine financial reporting at sites, benefitted from high recall and gathered operational insight that facilitated interpretation of the estimates derived. The methodology produced granular costs that aligned with the literature and allowed exploration of relevant scenarios. In the first year of the trial, net of drugs, the incremental financial cost of extending deworming of school-aged children to the whole community in India site averaged US$1.14 (USD, 2018) per person per round. A hypothesised at-scale routine implementation scenario yielded a much lower estimate of US$0.11 per person treated per round.ConclusionsWe showed that costing interventions alongside field activities offers unique opportunities for collecting rich data to inform policy toward optimising health interventions and for facilitating transfer of economic evidence from the field to the programme.Trial registration numberNCT03014167; Pre-results.

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Neighborhoods and Intimate Partner Violence: A Decade in Review

Feminist Criminology ◽

10.1177/1557085120987632 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 155708512098763

Author(s):

Emily M. Wright ◽

Gillian M. Pinchevsky ◽

Min Xie

Keyword(s):

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Structural Features ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Neighborhood Context ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Economic Disadvantage ◽

The Past ◽

Research Findings ◽

And Gender

We consider the broad developments that have occurred over the past decade regarding our knowledge of how neighborhood context impacts intimate partner violence (IPV). Research has broadened the concept of “context” beyond structural features such as economic disadvantage, and extended into relationships among residents, collective “action” behaviors among residents, cultural and gender norms. Additionally, scholars have considered how the built environment might foster (or regulate) IPV. We now know more about the direct, indirect, and moderating ways that communities impact IPV. We encourage additional focus on the policy implications of the research findings.

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Analgesia for Sheep in Commercial Production: Where to Next?

Animals ◽

10.3390/ani11041127 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 1127

Author(s):

Alison Small ◽

Andrew David Fisher ◽

Caroline Lee ◽

Ian Colditz

Keyword(s):

Research Effort ◽

Mitigation Strategies ◽

Worth Living ◽

Life Worth Living ◽

The Past ◽

Considerable Research ◽

Husbandry Practices ◽

Industry Practice ◽

Successful Launch ◽

Inflammatory Drugs

Increasing societal and customer pressure to provide animals with ‘a life worth living’ continues to apply pressure on livestock production industries to alleviate pain associated with husbandry practices, injury and illness. Over the past 15–20 years, there has been considerable research effort to understand and develop mitigation strategies for painful husbandry procedures in sheep, leading to the successful launch of analgesic approaches specific to sheep in a number of countries. However, even with multi-modal approaches to analgesia, using both local anaesthetic and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID), pain is not obliterated, and the challenge of pain mitigation and phasing out of painful husbandry practices remains. It is timely to review and reflect on progress to date in order to strategically focus on the most important challenges, and the avenues which offer the greatest potential to be incorporated into industry practice in a process of continuous improvement. A structured, systematic literature search was carried out, incorporating peer-reviewed scientific literature in the period 2000–2019. An enormous volume of research is underway, testament to the fact that we have not solved the pain and analgesia challenge for any species, including our own. This review has highlighted a number of potential areas for further research.

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The Science of Ageism: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2222 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 646-646

Author(s):

Jerin Lee ◽

Natalie Shook

Keyword(s):

Psychological Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Census Bureau ◽

Complex Nature ◽

The Past ◽

Growing Pains ◽

Research Findings ◽

One Step ◽

Prejudicial Attitudes ◽

The Impact

Abstract The past two decades have been marked by a rapidly aging population in the U.S. (U.S. Census Bureau, 2018), making prejudicial attitudes toward older adults (i.e., ageism) and the impact of such attitudes more relevant. As such, ageism researchers have worked tirelessly to not only understand this normalized and insidious form of bias, but also develop efforts to combat it. This symposium will feature four ageism researchers who will showcase both the growing pains and novel contributions of ageism research, ranging from the impact of ageism on psychological health to ageism interventions to issues related to the measurement of ageism. Specifically, Dr. Ayalon will present findings regarding difficulties with the assessment of exposure to ageism and the consequences of ageism for psychological well-being. Dr. Horhota will share research demonstrating challenges associated with confronting ageism. Dr. Levy will present a model showcasing factors associated with the reduction of ageism. Ms. Lee will discuss research findings examining the construct validity of several ageism measures. These talks highlight theoretical and real-world implications associated with the complex nature of ageism, providing important directions for enriching ageism research going forward.

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The Undergraduate Marketing Research Course: Two Decades of Change

Journal of Marketing Education ◽

10.1177/0273475320960501 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 027347532096050

Author(s):

Eileen Bridges

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Data Analytics ◽

New Technology ◽

Marketing Research ◽

Customer Data ◽

Critical Gap ◽

The Past ◽

Data Collection And Analysis ◽

Marketing Data ◽

Observational Techniques

This article looks back over the past two decades to describe how teaching of undergraduate marketing research has (or has not) changed. Sweeping changes in technology and society have certainly affected how marketing research is designed and implemented—but how has this affected teaching of this important topic? Although the purpose of marketing research is still to better understand target customer needs, the tools are different now: customer data are typically collected using technology-based interfaces in place of such instruments as mailed, telephone, or in-person surveys. Observational techniques collect more data electronically rather than requiring a human recorder. Similarly, sampling has changed: sample frames are no longer widely used. Many of these changes are not yet fully discussed in marketing research courses. On the other hand, there is increasing interest in and availability of courses and programs in marketing data analytics, which teach specialized skills related to analysis and interpretation of electronic databases. Perhaps even more importantly, new technology-based tools permit greater automation of data collection and analysis, and presentation of findings. A critical gap is identified in this article; specifically, effort is needed to better integrate the perspectives of data collection and data analysis given current research conditions.

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Baraza as method: Adapting a traditional conversational space for data collection and pathways for change

Qualitative Social Work ◽

10.1177/14733250211029346 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 147332502110293

Author(s):

Laura A. Chubb ◽

Christa B. Fouché ◽

Karen Sadeh Kengah

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Research Study ◽

Community Based Participatory Research ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Local Communities ◽

Working Relationships ◽

Community Based ◽

Cultural Contexts ◽

Context Specific

The call to decolonise research processes and knowledge produced through them has spawned a powerful shift in working relationships between community researchers and members of local communities. Adaptation of a traditional conversational space in a community-based participatory research study offers a context-specific example of a decolonising method for data collection and as pathways for change. This article reports on learnings encountered while adapting the space and highlights the relevance for other cultural contexts. We present principles to adapt traditional conversational spaces both for collecting data and as a means of working in partnership with indigenous communities to enable different ways of knowing and action.

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