Research Design in the Evaluation of Operations Research Projects—A Framework

2019 ◽  
pp. 425-431
Author(s):  
Ronald H. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Operations Research ◽  
Research Projects

scholarly journals Braiding Designs for Decolonizing Research Methodologies: Theory, Practice, Ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather E McGregor ◽  
Brooke Madden ◽  
Marc Higgins ◽  
Julia Ostertag
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Decolonizing Methodologies ◽  
Decolonizing Research

Describing methodological design in decolonizing research as the intersection of theory, practice, and ethics, we share four focused micro-stories from our respective research projects. The metaphor of braiding represents the methodological design process within each of our research stories, significantly influenced by Dwayne Donald’s (2012) Indigenous métissage. Heather grapples with notions of reciprocity, Brooke considers the role of place in the construction of teacher identity, Marc engages with reworking photovoice, and Julia brings relationships with plants into her methodological design. Intentionally interrupting each other and ourselves, we feature the moments and movements of research design that are iterative, recursive, messy, and sometimes stuck, in contrast to the linear, untainted and dogmatic methodologies that assert themselves around us. Meanings and relationships may be produced in braiding our micro-stories together, exceeding what might be possible if they were presented separately. Readers may be invited into imagining the design of decolonizing methodologies beyond those we enacted.

Doing qualitative comparative research on teaching: Challenges and benefits of working with grounded theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-433
Author(s):  
Claudia Rupp
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research On Teaching ◽  
International Comparative Research ◽  
International Comparative ◽  
Methodological Aspects ◽  
Teaching Challenges

The last decades have seen the completion of an increasing number of qualitative comparative research projects on teaching. Challenges and benefits which might arise from a qualitative international comparative research design have been considered. However, very little has been published on challenges and benefits which may arise from using grounded theory in international comparative research projects. This article explores some of these challenges and benefits, focusing on two methodological aspects: the emergent process of developing a grounded theory and analysing data in a foreign language. In order to illustrate the argument, an international comparative PhD project is used. The project is centred on how teachers see themselves with regards to accountability reforms in England and Germany.

scholarly journals Experiments in becoming: corporeality, attunement and doing research

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402094955
Author(s):  
Alan Latham ◽  
Lauren B Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Careful Attention ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Research Site

Human geography has become deeply interested in a range of research methods that focus on researchers’ corporeal engagement with their research sites. This interest has opened up an exciting set of research horizons, energising the discipline in a whole range of ways. Welcoming this engagement, this paper presents a series of meditations on the process of using the researcher’s corporeal learning as a research tool. Exploring two research projects, as well as the work of the photographer Nikki S Lee, it examines how the process of becoming corporeally capable might productively be framed as sets of ongoing experiments. Framing such engagements as experiments is a useful heuristic through which to think rigorously about what such research can claim as knowledge. More controversially, the paper argues that the heuristic of the experiment helps us to attend to the varying durations of becoming in ways that much existing work has discounted. Developing corporeal capacities – gaining a skill, becoming capable of doing a particular activity – involves becoming attuned to a range of thresholds, the crossing of which open up novel and frequently unexpected perspectives. Attunement to these thresholds does not arise simply through the process of mixing in and participating in a research site. It requires careful attention to the parameters of transformation involved in being able to participate. The paper explores how such parameters might be decided upon and calibrated as part of an ongoing engagement with a research site or event. Our aim is not to artificially restrict or constrain how human geographers approach their research design. Rather it is to encourage human geographers to show more courage in their use of corporeal based research methodologies.

scholarly journals Understanding Quantitative Design: A Resource for Qualitative Researchers

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carroll Bronson
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Design

Quantitative Research for the Qualitative Researcher is a concise text written for students from a qualitative orientation. It provides connections between both quantitative and qualitative research processes, and helps students understand quantitative research design more completely. It highlights the structure and purpose of research design so students understand how to create and carry out effective research projects.

scholarly journals Improving entrepreneurial research methodology: When research design fails

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Autumn Sadie O'Connor ◽  
Vicki Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Top Executives ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
New Research

The diverse endeavours undertaken by entrepreneurs have the potential to positively impact communities, and yet this population appears notoriously difficult to recruit for research. This paper reflects on declining research participation, particularly noted in top executives and the entrepreneurial community; and introduces a Master’s dissertation study which failed to recruit significant numbers of entrepreneurs for quantitative research purposes.  While ‘failed’ research may lack allure, it does provide valuable learning insights for students undertaking new research projects.  Quite apart from not repeating past mistakes, outlining research challenges may assist students to develop more creative and robust projects.  As such, this paper highlights two significant points regarding barriers to recruiting amongst entrepreneurs. First, we present evidence that entrepreneurs are often over-worked and time poor, and this impacts on their research participation; secondly, we highlight how entrepreneurs respond differently to research activities, and hereby, we offer some recommendations for improved research design.

Justifying children and young people’s involvement in social research: Assessing harm and benefit

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Kennan ◽  
Pat Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Ethical Obligation ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Balanced Assessment

At a time when children and young people’s involvement in research is increasingly the norm, this article reflects on the importance of a well-reasoned and transparent justification for their inclusion or exclusion. It explores the dilemma of a researcher’s ethical obligation to protect children and young people from harm and at the same time respect their autonomy as social actors and independent rights holders to participate in research of relevance to their lives. A researcher’s ethical obligation to conduct a rigorous but balanced assessment of harm and benefit is reiterated. The article takes the debate beyond a call for assessing harm and benefit to providing a strategy for conducting such an assessment at the point of research design. Reflecting on two research projects the authors were involved in, three critical considerations are identified. These are: the purpose and the theoretical context of the research; the preferences of the children and young people and their parents; and the available time and resources. The article draws on the research examples to illustrate the assessment process in practice.

scholarly journals Handbook for Family Planning Operations Research Design

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Fisher ◽  
John Laing ◽  
John Stoeckel ◽  
John Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Operations Research

Researching violence against women during pregnancy: A reflexive account to illuminate insights gained from researching violence against women, utilising an intersectional approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-223
Author(s):  
Heidi Siller ◽  
Siobán O’Brien Green
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Blind Spots

Abstract An intersectional and reflexive approach is vital in researching violence against women (VAW). It offers insights into researcher–participant relations, the research design and process, and the collection and analysis of data. Furthermore, it illuminates potential blind spots due to, for example, socialisation, values, or beliefs. Particularly in VAW, such insights are needed to inspire social change and social action. In this essay, we use an intersectional framework for our reflexive interrogation of our research on intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy. We highlight potential aspects of re-enforcing or reproducing characteristics of IPV in research projects and via power relations in research collaboration and emphasise the need for explicit reflexivity in VAW research to do this.

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