Author: James White

Abubakar, A. Douglas, S & Sani, Z (2018). Qualitative data collection, analysis and interpretation in research paradigms: The case of library and information science research. Applied Scientific Research. 6 (5): 211-215 Ahmed, S. (2017). Living a Feminist Life. Duke University Press, pp.1–18. Baker, S.E. and Edwards, R. (2012). How many qualitative interviews is enough? National Centre for… Continue reading References

Here you can find the Slide Deck for my Presentation summarising my ARP project.

So what have I learned? I’ve learned that everything takes a lot longer than expected. From my research and reading? From my research during this Action Research Cycle I have found that Ethics in research is incredibly important – something that I hadn’t really considered as an academic before. Particularly in relation to focus groups… Continue reading Project Findings

Now that I have collected my data, I need to analyse it – but how? What is the best method for analysing the (mostly) qualitative data I have gathered. Content Vs. Thematic Analysis Looking at the descriptions in an Abubakar et al. (2018) journal, it seems that Content and Thematic Analysis are probably the most… Continue reading Data Analysis

It has been challenging getting students to participate in my focus group, more challenging than I was expecting. So many of my students have so much going in their lives, global crises, extenuating circumstances outside of their control, lots of university work (I think its easy to forget sometimes that they have multiple units all… Continue reading Recruiting Participants

In one of my PgCert tutorials a peer who is also using focus groups as a research method introduced me to the 1-2-4-All structure for idea generation exercises. Looking into it further it sits as a method within a broader approach called ‘Intentionally Equitable Hospitality’ which I had never heard of before. Bali and Zamora… Continue reading Intentionally Equitable Hospitality

For my focus groups I will be using semi structured questions to begin and help steer conversation, but allow the space for conversation to go off on tangents depending on what the participants choose to say. I developed the questions so that I could get a grasp of initially how they feel about the topic,… Continue reading Tool testing and dipping my toes into the world of AI.

Workshop 2 of the ARP involved us having discussions in small groups around different articles we had been given to read, focused on citation in academic research practices. The others in my group had readings that focussed a lot on citational justice, feminist citations and breaking the cycle of white cis men in academic research… Continue reading Citational Justice

INFORMATION SHEET As with my Ethical Enquiry Form, I used the Information Sheet example given to us as a base and amended to make it more relevant to my own project. Version 1 was written at about the same time as version 2 of the EE form, so still had some to-ing and fro-ing in… Continue reading Participant Facing Documents

Ethics and the Ethical Enquiry (EE) Form has been a bigger beast to tackle than I could have imagined. I started by looking at the example EE form and trying to map my project and ideas against it. Everything is red means it wasn’t final (basically the whole document!) I had lots of ideas, and… Continue reading Ethics