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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: impact of COVID-19 on fieldwork with hard-to-reach groups
    sub title: the ups and wdowns of online focus groups
  name:
    name part: Mann, Natalie Rebecca
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lundrigan, Samantha
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: In January 2020, we began a 2-year research project to investigate the process and outcome effectiveness of the Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements, which oversee the monitoring and management of sexual and violent offenders in the community. A large part of the research involved qualitative fieldwork with practitioners from groups that are notoriously "hard-to-reach" for the purposes of research; these included the Police, HM Prison Service, and the National Probation Service. The onset of the pandemic 3 months later seemingly made these "hard-to-reach" groups even more difficult to access. Exceptional working models scaled back services and simply operating amid the chaos created by the pandemic meant that participation in research was understandably not considered a priority by the agencies we sought to involve. This case discusses how, created by the global pandemic, the need for alternative research methods resulted in the adoption of Microsoft Teams as the primary method for research focus groups. Despite the perceived and real drawbacks of no physical communication with participants, Teams evolved into a highly effective way of conducting research with our hard-to-reach groups. Our experience suggests that this tool is an important one in the armoury of researchers, offering a convenient and more economical way of conducting large-scale fieldwork with "hard-to-reach" practitioners.
  target audience: specialized
  note: by Natalie Mann and Samantha Lundrigan.
  subject:
    topic: Criminal justice, Administration of
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Probation
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Parole
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Probation (Droit)
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Libération conditionnelle
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Criminal justice, Administration of
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Parole
  subject:
    topic: Probation
  classification: HV7419.5 .M36 2022
  classification: 364.072
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE research methods: doing research online
  identifier: 9781529600568
  identifier: 1529600561
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 220207
    record change date: 20240923170342.6
    record identifier: in00005494907
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng